Goodnight Batman

Tonight as Evan and I were headed up the stairs and Sara was lying on the couch, I heard her yell to him goodnight Batman.  For all the fighting they do during the day its the sweet moments like this that make my heart melt! 

Sara has not been napping since giving up her pacifier.  Evan is so frustrated by not having some time without her around.  He tells her she needs to take a nap and the other day told her Daddy wouldn't come home if she didn't take a nap.  Yes, he is the master manipulator.  Unfortunately his attempts do not work any better than mine.  I tried telling her she had 15 minutes of quiet time and setting a timer.  She started yelling my name at 3 minutes and was hysterical by 7, when I went up stairs she was gagging and holding her mouth.  She threw up her lunch, and luckily we made it to the bathroom. 

Sara and Evan are night and day.  He is cautious and she is daring, he is very tidy and she is messy, he will only eat things he is familiar with and she will try almost anything.  Yesterday she at two whole peaches and then had yellow beans that she dipped in vegetable dip.   She ate a bowl of plain lettuce and tried some Kalmata olives.  The only thing she disliked was the olives.  Evan decided he no longer likes hot dogs or macaroni and cheese.  He is still big on pizza, raspberries, corn, and broccoli.  Raspberries are the tough ones we either have too many or not enough and they don't keep long enough.  The recently opened a Save A Lot near us and they have great inexpensive produce.

Last weekend we went for family pictures.  Each of the kids needed them for school and we hadn't had them done in so long that we went to JCP.  The family ones were cute but the kids were horrible for the individual shots.  We even made another attempt after seeing the pictures and it was a flop.  Oh well, sometimes they turn out cuter when I do a photo shoot in the yard. 

Last night I had new parent orientation at Evan's school.  There are a ton of social events for families and parents.  We start the year with meet the teachers on a Friday night.  My neighbors told me its 10 minutes with each teacher and then an amazing happy hour with appetizers.  Its all catered.  One of my high school friends is sending her 3 children there so I look forward to seeing her more often.  I'm excited to make new adult friends.  We belong to a huge parish but there are not a ton of social activities and we never get involved.  So this will be our forced way of getting involved.  Evan's class has 20 kids in in and 15 are boys!  I think I'm more nervous than he is.  His first day I have open house at night, its going to be a crazy week.  My dad will also be admitted to Roswell for his chemo and stem cell transfer.  So juggling the kids and sitters will be crazy.  Tomorrow the kids and I are going to the beach with a former computer aide from my school.  She retired in June and has offered to watch the kids when I'm in a pinch.  We went to the playground and to her house a few weeks ago and the kids instantly warmed up to her.  I'm still hesitant to leave them since they don't know her that well although I adore her.  I'm sure after the first day my thoughts will change!