Halloween

The boys are into dressing up, William got his spiderman costume on Monday and he's been wearing it a lot.

Here's a post on good Halloween poems.

Photo posts coming soon.

Splat The Cat

This is the book that Andres asked me to read this morning.

Andres

Potty training update: Andres had no accidents two days ago, and only one, in a rage, yesterday. He's pooping in the potty, the second task, and his diaper isn't full in the morning so he's holding it during the night--though we're not going no diaper overnight yet. He's doing great. I'm impressed and proud of him. The first day he had so many accidents, and we were at times running out of underwear, but we persevered, and he's done a good job.

3 times

With the teacher, we decided Tuesday was the day we would try no pullups for Andres. He would wear underwear. So he went in his underwear, pants and socks 3 times before we could get out of the house this morning. The third time he had his shoes on, and the urine goes down to his shoes, so he needs a new pair of shoes. Yikes. Needless to say, they were late getting off to school.

i see you

photos

Andres



William was writing letters. Glamma made him practice writing, and he did well. He was proud of his work.

in the surf

We had a lovely visit from Glamma Kathy and Grandpa Rich. We went to Rockaway Beach. Here's William in the surf.

family excitement

"I'm so excited that Grandma and Grandpa are coming that I love everyone in the whole wide world," said William

Andres chants in the background, "whole wide world, whole wide world!"

Facebook photo

Here's a link to a photo I sent to Facebook.

The other day he was "riding the roller coaster" by going down the slide locked in with other boys. They had a terrific time, except William hurt himself three times, and by the third one that was finally enough. So we had to go home. And Andres wasn't happy about that, so he cried, and they both arrived home weepy.

Andres' class

I spent 8:45-12:00 with Andres' class. I enjoyed seeing his peers, seeing his teachers, seeing the routines. They're so cute, those little kids. Andres' teacher says he's a model student. He said he thinks Andres is ready to loose the pull-ups, have some accidents and wear underwear.

stop, drop and roll

Andres said, "stop, drop and roll," quietly. I asked him if he learned that at school when there's a fire and smoke. He said yes. He said his teacher taught it to him. Because of the attention he said it over and over again. He said it so much that it annoyed William, who at one point said, "I'm not going to stop, I'm not going to drop and I'm not going to roll!"

music

Robert Johnson, Bill Evans, Babel Gilberto, Alison Krauss and Tom Petty are the 5 CDs in our CD player at the moment.

Friday update

Andres earned some more cars by using the toilet. He won't go to the bathroom, but he likes to earn stars towards cars, so we're using a behavior modification to help motivate him to do something we want him to do. William gets stars for cleaning up and misses getting presents for going to the bathroom.

Sometimes Andres insists of getting whatever William has. It's been pointed out that Andres often wants the very thing that someone just picks up. He has his own interests though. Andres has gotten into cards, even though he doesn't really know how to play games. William is playing with trains. They fight occasionally. Sometimes they resolve it on their own, sometimes an intervention is needed. Andres sometimes whines instead of just asking for help, we're trying to change that behavior too.

They called me today from the school, William puked in the class. Maybe he ate too much or bread got stuck in his throat. I took them to the park where 3 classmates of William and another kid from the school play. William likes the swing. But they play a game where they run from him, and he doesn't like that, so we went home earlier than we usually do.

Diana was out shopping with her mother. Abuela got them winter jackets. Diana is going out with the women tonight, it's girls night out.

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