my kids

*The other day the dishwasher was open and Katherine started putting the dishes away! She was putting the silverware in the silverware drawer. Alex got up and said, I'll help her. So she handed him the dishes and he put them away. Who's kids are these??? SO SO cute!!

*I started reading the boys "The Lightning Thief" last night and they were very into it! Nathan said it was his favorite book. They kept asking me to read more and more and we ended up reading until midnight and got to page 75. They got into bed at 8:30 or 9. Here's one part so you can see why it's such a great hit with them, especially Nathan:

"Then the wierdest thing happened. Her (the pre-algebra teacher) eyes began to glow like barbecue coals. Her fingers stretched, turning into talons. Her jacket melted into large, leathery wings. She wasn't human. She was a shriveled hag with bat wings and claws and a mouth full of yellow fangs, and she was about to slice me to ribbons.
Then things got even stranger.
Mr. Brunner, who'd been out in front of the museum a minute before, wheeled his chair into the doorway of the gallery, holding a pen in his hand.
"What ho, Percy!" he shouted, and tossed the pen through the air.
Mrs. Dodds lunged at me.
With a yelp, I dodged and felt talons slash the air next to my ear. I snatched the ballpoint pen out of the air, but when it hit my hand, it wasn't a pen anymore. It was a sword--Mr. Brunner's bronze sword, which he always used on tournament day."