Updates on the kids

It's been so long since I've posted anything new that I thought I'd do a general kid update.

Sam is talking up a blue streak. The speech therapist is now coming to our house once a week for an hour to work with him and he's made incredible progress. Talking in four word sentences and learning new words everyday. He's very much your typical, into everything, 2 year old! When you ask him a question, he pauses, says, "ummmm", thinks about it, then answers you. Very cute. His newest saying is, "awww maaan" with perfect inflection in his voice. He is also learning his colors. He asked me for pink paint the other day and would not be tricked when I gave him orange. I had to go back into the closet and drag out the red and white and mix it up for him. He will be starting at Country Village preschool in the fall. It's closer to our house than the older boys preschool is so it will be more convienent for us. It's a great place with several huge playgrounds, a science room with lots of birds, reptiles, and even a chinchilla, and a "barn" area with a pig and chickens. It looks like a fun place to be if you are a 3 year old!

Ben is graduating from preschool next week. *sniff sniff* I can't believe my baby is going to Kindergarten! He's so excited to be going to the same school as his big brother. I have requested that he be put in Mrs. Shields class, the teacher that Will had for K. He introduced himself to her on Friday at the school carnival. He has been really interested in letters, numbers, and writing lately. He has workbooks that he will sit and do for over an hour. He asks me to spell out words for him and he writes them down and is even starting to sound out a few. He's really going to be ready for Kindergarten! There are several siblings of Will's friends from Kindergarten that will be in his class too, which will be fun.

Will is almost done with first grade. He can read just about anything now and has learned to tell time and add and subtract. We have been working on his very first science report, about Triceritops. He was instructed to write a couple of paragraphs on it and one of the sentences was supposed to be his favorite thing about the Triceritops. He said that his favorite thing was that if he lived in the time of the dinosaurs, he would be able to catch a Triceritops because they don't run very fast. We also made a paper mache model of it and he painted it and glued on wiggly eyes. Will has lost his two bottom teeth and the top ones are loose. It would be cute if they waited until December to come out but it will probably happen this summer.