Just the beginning

So today is the day that I start blogging. I used to journal...ALOT. That hasn't been happening for the last few years, and I would like to one day give Derek and Sean my memories of their childhood, so I started a blog. It goes by so fast, I can't believe that Derek is almost 4 and Sean is already 2. Today has been a low key day. I work this week (I'm an oncall nurse for a home hospice) and I try not to plan anything on those weeks. So we went to the gym this morning, Target for lunch, and now Sean is napping and Derek is on the computer. We are in the midst of potty training Sean which has had it's ups and downs. One day with no accidents and I think that he is getting it and the next day we go through 4 pairs of pants. Today so far has been a good day. If only I would have listened to him at Target, then we would have been accident free.

Derek is done with his first year of preschool. He has come a long way since Sept. I wish that he would continue with things with me, but he gets very defensive and doesn't even want to try with me. For instance, we are doing a summer letter exchange with my mommies group. We have been part of the group since Derek was a year old. He knows some of these kids very well. We painted a picture of an alligator this afternoon and I was trying to get him to write his name. He can only do the D and the e, but he refused to even hold the marker for me. At school he was doing it on a daily basis. Oh well, we'll try again tomorrow.

Sean of course has to do everything that Derek does so I have also included him in the letter exchange. He painted a picture of a duck that we got off the computer. He loves to write and draw. That kid is so funny. Lately he has taken to carrying around a plastic baseball bat like a guitar and singing with it. He will go around the house for a good 40 min with the bat "playing guitar" Yesterday before bath he was in front of a full length mirror watching himself sing. It was pretty funny.

My hope is to blog on a close to daily basis with the random things my kids are up to. It will probably be less frequent on the weeks that I work. But I will try.