excited about...

Things I am happy/excited about right now:

1. Katherine went in the potty by herself two times in a row today!!!! yeah!!! She's never gone in the potty be herself before. The going has been a little rough so far with her potty training. This morning I found little poops on the floor--good thing we have laminate and not carpet!! By the way, this is so far THE WORST thing about parenting--potty training.

2. I got a backpack someone was selling- a brand new picnic backpack- for $5!! This weekend I'm taking each boy on a date to ride bikes at Sundance and look at the leaves and have a picnic. I can't wait!

3. The boys have "boys club" in the homeschool group, and I'm starting a "littlest girls club" for Katherine's age. I'm just starting to do "school" stuff with her so I think it would be fun for her to play with other girls about her age. It'll be more parallel play, but I think it'll be good for her to start friendships with these other girls as they grow up together.

4. We have the possibility of moving to the east coast for a year! Someone wants to rent out our house (someone we know well), and since we homeschool and Todd works from home, we could do it! Todd just asked his boss if it would be ok if we did it, and he's going to get back to us. I want to go SO bad!!!!

5. Todd is now working from home, so he's doing school with us!! He is now the boys' math teacher. He is a perfect teacher for them and the boys love love love doing math with him. They look up to him so much. It's also good because Todd wakes the boys up at 7 and they brush their teeth, get dressed and go to the table to do math, and the girls and I wake up and I can get the bottles, change diapers, breakfast, etc. and then we do scriptures all together and then Todd does his work. This gets our day started on time (the hardest part of the day) and makes the rest of the day run a lot smoother. The boys are so lucky!

6. This is our third year of doing homeschool, and it has gone SO well so far, the bestest year yet! I felt really really strongly that I should homeschool the kids this year (I was leaning toward public school with having 2 little girls). I felt Heavenly Father would help me, and He has! I have so many ideas that pop into my head and Todd got this job working from home, and Abbie is such a great baby now that we switched her to soy formula, and everything is just falling into place. The boys start this Friday doing "public school" once a week. Through the local public charter school, the boys can go to their school every Fri. and do fun classes. They are doing violin (the school is paying for their violins and they get to KEEP them!), art, piano (no piano for us though:)), karate, etc. They can stay all day, or just do the classes they want. Alex wants to go all day, Nathan may just go half day. And it's free- no paying for violin, piano, karate, and art lessons! and no driving them everywhere to those expensive lessons all week!