Owen got to meet his Preschool teachers today. He will be a Butterfly this fall on T, W, R afternoons. Yes, that's right, Grace and Owen will both be at school those afternoons and Luke should be taking a nap. How exciting for Mom. It's the first time I've had afternoon time to myself. Of course, I'm sure I'll be at both of their schools helping lots. Thank goodness Jason works out of the house...it's my saving grace! We love having him home...it allows us to do more stuff during the day keeping those evening hours for family time (instead of running errands, doctor appts, etc).

I'm trying to keep count how many and what words Luke says...hence the "list" on the side. I'm hoping this gets me prepared for the pediatrician's question...How many words does he have. He's got some tough words down but still not MaMa!! Go figure! Every once and awhile he repeats Grace and Owen by repeating "maaaaaammmmyyyy". He's doing Help Me Grow 1x/week and will probably start individual speech therapy in a few weeks. It's slow progress, but still progress. His signing of words has increased. I know what he wants most of the time, but the words are slow to come.

It's early release Wednesday, so today Grace goes to school 3o minutes earlier but gets home 1 hour soon. I told the kids we might have brunch today. Owen asked me if brunch had nuts in it. We went to dinner tonight with Jason's family and Luke was the life of the party. We'd ask him what Swiper (from Dora) says and he's give us the cutest "Oh man!". He loves to make us all laugh.

I've been inspired by some friend's blogs to start my own. I keep thinking I need to write things down so here is my attempt to keep track of the happenings here at the Peters house. With my laptop in the kitchen...there is no excuse why I can't "blog" things down. So here it goes...

Grace's 2nd day of kindergarten is today. If you ask her the best part....the bus and recess would be her answer. The boys enjoy riding their bikes down to the bus stop to send Grace off. She is eager to get on and doesn't look back (not even a wave out the window for mom!). I've been working on arranging some speech therapy for Luke today. He has been doing Help Me Grow the past 2 months. He is improving...but it is SSSLLLLOOOWWW! We continue to work on the mulch around the playset area...it's looking great and will be so much safer for the kids vs. the hard ground (where grass never grew).