Kindergarten and being selfish. In that order.

Woah! Not sure how the Andy-Warhol-like coloring happened but it like it!

Here is what a well-adjusted kindergartner looks like. Pretty sweet huh?

There were no tears and no hesitation, just a happy boy off on his merry way. Nick actually took Gabe to his first day of kindergarten, he had the day off and I tend to be a blubbering mess when these things occur. I was a blubbering mess at home (suprisingly) for only a short moment, but mostly I am excited for Gabe. He has a great teacher and a great friend in his class, Sam. He has made friends with Akazia, Cutler, Carter, Kaleo, Collin, and Ammon. He is learning how to write the "school way" (only capitalizing the first letter, not all the letters in a word) which has been hard for him, but as long as he knows he can write his way on his artwork at home he is fine.

Anyway, Gabe loves school and school loves Gabe. Today he got to pick a prize out of the treasure chest because he had filled his chart with positive marks. (I wanted to type plusses, because that is what they are but spell check does not like it, how does one spell plusses anyway?)

I like kindergarten too, here's why: I get to read while Ian and Simon nap. Divine!

So far I have read:
The Last Lecture (Oh my, so good!)
To Kill A Mockingbird (always love it)
The Persian Pickle Club (highly recommend - depression era but not depressing. Go figure!)
Gift from the Sea (beautiful)
Fablehaven: Grip of the shadow plague (3rd book, and entertaining)
The Picture of Dorian Grey (didn't finish, got sick of all the selfish characters)
Frankenstein (thoroughly enjoyed and cried over)
The Secret Life of Bees (enjoyable)
The Guernsey literary and potato peel pie society (so good, loved it, read it!)
next up is The life of Pi for book club


Did I ever mention that I love to read? I do. When I was younger my cousin Katie and I would have reading sleepovers. Another story for another day, but yes we were nerds. I have not had time for it in the last 5 years, but now... NOW I am making up for it in spades!



Ian is in preschool, a little neighborhood one in which we moms are taking turns teaching at our respective houses (aka joyschool without the joyschool curriculum). He adores it and has learned so many new things. I love hearing him sing "Here we are together together together. Here we are together at our preschool day. There's Ian and Cameron and.....so on and so forth. You know the tune right? It's cute.

Simon, well he has taken to speaking in short sentences such as: "turn it on" "ready, set, go" and "NO NO NO NO NOOOOOOOOOOOOO". He is asserting himself lately, in a loud screechy sort of way, but we still love him and he's unbelievably cute.

All in all, we are well adjusted to this new life.

Oh, and by the way, Nick is awesome! Isn't he always though? I mean for crying out loud, he currently has 100 more friends than me on face book. Of course he is awesome!

Because I am naturally a (very) competitive person, I chalk this up to all that time I spend with my nose in books. While I made book friends, Nick made real friends. Or maybe it is because I post updates like, "today was a good day" or "today was an over-the-moon day". You know it's only because I'm reading good books right?

I want to leave you with this thought: is there anything better than curling up on the couch with a blanket (snuggie, yes I own one) and a good book for two hours of uninterrupted reading time listening to the chorus of a fall thunderstorm? Probably, but it made my day today.