It is, afterall, the key to discipline

This is turning into a depressingly pictureless blog. For those of you who are checking for family updates, I apologize. For everyone else, you could care less, so whatever.

FYI on our FAM-ily:

Caden starts school on Tuesday. He only had a six week summer, which on the one hand was really short, but on the other hand was just right. He's going to be in first grade, and for the first time in his life he will be spending more of his waking hours with his teacher than he will with mom and dad. He's feeling a little conflicted because he likes school but he "just loves (his) family so, so, so much," that he doesn't want to leave us during the day (as he sobbingly told me the other night). I think once we get back into the swing of things he'll be just fine.

Lincoln is now fully potty trained. But even as I write this I knock on wood because it doesn't mean he won't have accidents (as evidenced by the last couple of days), but it does mean that he knows where he's suppossed to go, and gets there 95% of the time. He will go to pre-school this fall, but not until late September. This will be a new experience for us, because Caden never went to pre-school. Lincoln knows the alphabet (upper and lowercase) and the sounds each letter makes (but he has a hard time with "y", he thinks is should say "wuh"), numbers (can count to 20), colors, shapes, etc. He's ready. He keeps talking about "his school". I'm excited for him.

Aile is crawling everywhere. We finally had to put the gate up because she is so fast that we couldn't chance just walking into the bedroom for 1/2 a second - she likes to follow and that's just a little too close to the top of the stairs for comfort. She is 5 1/2 months and since she's mastered crawling she has decided to start pulling up on the furniture and everything (and everyone) else. She just has to keep up with those big brothers. She also has cut her two bottom front teeth, and loves baby food. She is such a happy baby - I'm so glad we have her.

Ryan is working away at his summer job and doing fun things with the boys - tonight they're all sleeping in the tent in the backyard. Or at least they're suppossed to. We'll see how long Lincoln actually lasts....

Of all the fun things that we've done lately we have not managed to take a single picture, so sadly, this remains a depressingly pictureless blog. But at least I'm consistent.