A List.

  • Yeah, I got bored with my blog design and decided to switch it up a little. The background photo is a nearby rice paddie here in Salatiga.
  • We've hit the ground running and are back into language learning full-swing. I'm happy to report that this unit is going far better than last, mostly because Sean and I are on the same schedule again.
  • Paige (2) has now officially begun preschool! She's exhausted by the end of her half-day, though. We're only doing 3 days a week for now.
  • We started potty training with Paige the day we got home from our trip and well...
  • Potty training can wait.
  • The only Spanish words I can still remember are the ones I haven't yet learned in Indonesian. It's always surprising to me how a stray Spanish word will still slip into my sentences and they seem to fit so nicely until I see the look on somebody's face. But ask me to recall a simple word in Spanish on the spot and I'll stare dumbly at you for a full minute and spurt out it's Indonesian equivalent. Language and the brain. Wow.
  • Our oven fell on Paige the other day. Yes, the oven. Thankfully, it's a very small oven and it wasn't turned on or anything. Paige may or may not have been climbing on it. Ack. That child. Praise the Lord, she came away from the incident with nothing more serious than a bump on her head and a healthy respect for appliances.
  • One of our MAF families is leaving this week. It's hard for all of us to say good-bye, but Brooklyn is especially sad since she's going to "lose" one of her best friends.
  • Paige. She seems to make my lists a lot. She's two and she's really hitting her stride as far as being adorable/impossible/frustrating/naughty/headstrong/cute goes. I'll just go ahead and say it - Paige is challenging us far more than her older sisters did at this age. But she's so doggone cute we always end up forgiving her.

Comments

  1. junglewifeJanuary 17, 2011 at 1:29 PM

    I hear you on the Spanish! I remember being at that point when in language school... I could not think up a sentence in Spanish to save my life! Don't worry... once you are out of the language-learning mode, your brain will sort everything out again, and you'll be tri-lingual :-)

    And... I am at the same point with my two-going-on-three-year-old. Pushing all the boundaries, attitude up to *here*, etc, etc. I guess we just have to keep being the parents, no matter how hard it is, huh?! :-)

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  2. Aaron and IzzieJanuary 18, 2011 at 7:33 PM

    Oh my goodness does this sound familiar. I am constantly shocked by Gabriel, he is nothing like Ilon! We bought the potty. Than it sat for weeks and weeks. Then tonight he went!!! Yay hooray!!!

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