Well another September week has come and gone. The weather was fantastic this week and should be absolutely wonderful over the weekend. We have temps in the high 80s with a cool breeze each day. We LOVE getting out each day, it's SOOOO nice to have a cool breeze mixed with the warmth from the sun. It surely beats 90-100 degree weather with no wind in the summer.

Payton had her first spelling test today. I look forward to seeing her 100% score when she gets home in an hour:) Not to toot my own kid's horn; okay hold it! I will toot her horn, pat her on the back, and say this first grade stuff is TOO EASY!!!! Seriously; her goal this week, to work on perfecting her d'nealian handwriting not memorizing the spelling of the words on her list. The words were far too easy for her (ie: am, ham, had, mad, etc). This is where I struggle with public school but I try to stay positive when going through her homework. D'nealian, smamealian handwriting, BLAH! She has beautiful handwriting the way it is and here I have to stay on her butt like a pit bull to write bigger using silly lined paper. Oh well, we make sure to switch it up for her and keep her on track with what she was doing at Montessori since she at this point is light years ahead of the game. I'm not saying by any means she is smarter than the average first grader, really I have no idea. She comes home with math sheets that has pictures of objects in which she must count the pictures and write the total number of items next to it. Now this is a slight change from triple digit addition problems!!!

Shae and Reid had a great week at home, or at least I'd to think they did! Shae has two new favorite shows on PBS that we watch every morning and then we intermix the ideas and themes into our day. The first show is "Sid the Science Kid" that is about a preschooler who loves science at school. We both learn so much and usually try some of his "experiments" during the day. This week we learned to measure, turn ice into water, and how cooking is really chemistry. His other show is "Super Why" which is all about reading. He loves guessing the letters in the alphabet and reading stories with the characters. I even find Reid watching these shows too!!

Reid is coming down with a slight cold. I feel so bad for the kids when they are sick. He is super congested and is constantly sneezing or coughing to loosen the ickies in his nose. LOL, as I just typed this, he sneezed and had a huge trail hanging out of nose!! GROSS!!!!! Despite the cold, he is his usual self, happy and chilled. He now has four top teeth and two bottom teeth and yes still breastfeeding.

Travis and I are tired this week!! We have been staying up so late each night playing online. He has found some seriously funny videos online (on Comedy Central) that cause us to laugh so hard we both tear up. Talk about late night humor. When he's not sharing the laptop with me, he is most likely researching salmon fishing or applying for jobs in Washington. He heads to the Peninsula next weekend to go fishing with Kyle, Clayton, and Angie----and he isn't at all excited to go!!! He has been very aggressive in looking for a new job. He is going to help me with my resume and then I will start looking for a head hunter agency. I worry that my work with kids with Autism is too narrow of a field to branch out into a different area of social service; or perhaps may hinder me in getting out of social service. We'll see as the weeks progress.

We found out this morning that we have creepy crawlies co-habitating with us in our house, in our bedroom no less! Travis woke up several times last night stating he had bad dreams. When I woke up later on in the morning, I discovered a brown spider about the size of a fifty cent piece on the wall just above my head---AHHHHH!!!! I called Travis about his bad dreams which yep, you guessed it, was about spiders. He dreamt that he was trying to kill a spider crawling on the wall which is so gross that it really was there. The pest control service is coming on Monday. We did our homework and these are hobo spiders making their way in (we found a few others earlier this week in our bathroom). These are aggressive and dangerous spiders so we are freaked out.

This weekend we must work on cleaning up our yard in preparation for fall and to get it ready to put on the market in December. YAY, yard work! We will be working on our outdoor living space/patio area after I hack the hell out of butterfly bush out front. I will take before and after pictures of this bush that has become a tree! It took over our front flower bed this summer.

Okay enough blabbing. I hear Shae rummaging through my fridge for his seventh meal of the day! Reid is happily playing with the new toy Shae and I bought him this morning. Payton will be home in half an hour! Have a great weekend!!!