A quick post

I'm going to try to do a post in bullets and keep it simple.  I never get online to blog and it's already past my bedtime.  I have so much to report on and I am sure I'll miss things as I'm just going off the top of my head.

This mat leave has not been leisurely.  And it's flying by....J-Bear will be six months Jan. 2 and SR is turning 3 next Saturday!

• SR told me her friend M has colours on her fingers.  I said it's called nail polish (peels off) and she can have some too if she wants.  "No, I don't want nail polish.  I like M's nail polish but my fingers are beautiful like this."
• J-Bear does not like solids - tried all three cereals, and fresh pureed (with all my free time) sweet potato and zucchini....he can smile with his mouth closed...will keep trying.
• J-Bear is teething....he's been moody today and he's usually so easy going.
• I listed my condo - it's on the market and the market is slow.  I have not bought a home and am waiting to sell first.  Kindergarten registration is the beginning of January  (yes, SR will be 3 starting kindergarten) and I don't know where I am going to be living and I don't know where to register her....worried that I will miss the boat and the place I move to there won't be space and she'll have to go to a "holding school" nearby....and what if she doesn't get into the before/after school program?
• Still on a wait list for private school for SR.
• J-Bear is set to go to SR's current daycare...but if I move it may not be near this daycare and I don't have a place for him anywhere else.
• I am driving a new car - my mom bought my car and I have a new car that I will be paying for forever :)
• having a hard time with J-Bear and SR sharing a room....worried he will wake her and so I run every time he cries.  He usually ends up in my bed sometime between 2 and 4 where he stays until morning.  I never let SR into my bed.  
• J-Bear is a very big boy....so chubby and tall and did I mention chubby?  Very hard to carry him around unless I put him in the Moby Wrap carrier.  At 5 months he was 21 pounds.  Will my dad finally have his basketball player?
• J-Bear and SR have some special unspoken language between them....they are so in love with each other....I can't wait to watch them grow up together :)
• SR looks like a little Shirley Temple and does her pout beautifully.
• SR amazes me more and more every day with her knowledge of language.  I just can't believe how articulate she speaks and knows number sense while still 2 years old.  She spells her name at the speed of light and can also spell J-Bear's name and STOP without seeing the word in front of her.  
• She understands what is funny and why things are funny.
• She carries her Ernie figurine everywhere, even to bed, and sleeps with him in her right hand and her left hand on the back of one of her dolls.
• Speaking of sleeping, SR sleeps with a lot of dolls all wearing bibs, lying on their own pillows (washcloths) and covered by a blanket (burp cloths and wash cloths)...there isn't room for her.  There were a few nights she woke up screaming for me to find Ernie or find Bunnie's blanket (that looks like every other wash cloth in her bed) but I put a stop to that telling her if she woke me for those things again I would take whatever it is she was waking me about.

Okay, there's more...much more...but I need to go to sleep.  I hope to post for SR's birthday and J-Bear's six months soon.  SR is turning 3 on December 28, has her school birthday party on Jan. 6 and her real birthday party on Jan. 12.  It should be a busy couple of weeks.