4.5
Today is C's 4 1/2th birthday... I can't believe he's getting so old.

I haven't posted much (since the big squee news of last week) because we've just been coasting and getting used to the idea of our girl.

We've been doing the usual: lots of Legos (today it was making a park scene using all our trees, flowers, shrubs, and green or brown blocks), lots of reading (he's gone back to some Dr. Seuss favorites that we hadn't been reading in a while), trying out new gadgets (we bought the Read With Me DVD system at a K-mart on clearance this week - thinking it would be too basic for C and we'd save it for J, but C was interested in it and has been enjoying it a bit - so if you have a K-mart near you, let me know so I can send you the list of 4 titles they produced for the system that I can't find here - K-mart is getting rid of them for $5 each and I can't find any more at our store) - hm, that was a bit long for a parenthetical remark, wasn't it? -

Lots of coloring, drawing, experimental writing. C is interested in how to make a heart; my stomach's a bit off tonight and he's been bringing me sheets of paper with red hearts on them to make me feel better. Also four electrostaffs made from beheaded Q-tips. His great-grandmother (called Gigi) bought him a giant dinosaur coloring book at dinner on Sunday and he won a big box art set at my choir's party, so he's been watercoloring, sharpening pencils, using colored pencils and markers and crayons like crazy.

Time spent with the mice. He's always interested in giving them new things - today, an empty granola bar box - and in having them out in their exercise balls to play in whatever room he's in. Did I mention we had to buy the mice Christmas presents too?

Everything's good, nothing further earthshattering since Wednesday...