Podcasts

I love podcasts and since the two people that read this blog are also parents I wanted to share my new favorites. I really like Jumping Monkeys. It is a twit tv tech podcast but its all about parenting in the digital age. They have a great segment called spend, save, give and play cool kids music too. The Blog is also good.

Another one that I like but that isn't done too regularly is a kids music podcast sponsored by The Land of Nod. If you haven't heard of it, it is cool kids furniture catalog ala Pottery Barn Kids. Anyway they occasionaly update the Nodcast Podcast on itunes and Boone loves the ones by Peter Himmelman and Amy Krause Rosenthal. Each guest artist does their own rendition of a theme song and Boone knows almost every word to the one by Peter Himmelman. Gonna have to download a CD I guess.

Getting ready for Halloween here! What are you and your kids going to be?

Funny

Today Boone said to Josh- "When I get to be a big boy, can I go the the Kennewick Zoo with Aunt Mark and Jessie?"

Josh said "You are a big boy, Kennewick doesn't have a zoo, and its UNCLE Mark."

Just wanted to say THANKS...

to my fabulous husband for all of the little things he does like giving double bareback horsey rides, cleaning carpets. rearranging furniture, rocking feverish babies, and cleaning goo stuck in the sink. I love you baby! You really are my better half...

Oh yeah, here is a sneak peek of my new fall hair color. Still not sure about it, think I need some dark brown streaks.

Little Men...

Hey check out the new banner! I think I finally got the hang of these things. Fun!

Just realized I haven't posted about the kids in awhile. Not much has been going on here but we've still managed to stay really busy. Josh is going back and forth between Yakima and Pullman for work. He usually is only gone one over night a week for right now but that is likely to change soon.

Boone is great, working on so many letter combinations. So funny when throws a random bunch of letters together and then asks "Mom, what does that spell?" It is probably more entertaining listening to me try to sound them out.

Brody is puny this weekend. Probably just a virus but I had him cultured for strep just in case. It was going around daycare this week. His speech is so delayed compared to Boone's and is actually pretty delayed for his age so I had an evaluation done last month. He barely misses the cutoff to qualify for expressive speech therapy but apparently his receptive is off the charts. That just means we have to be very careful of what we say, because he really does understand it all.

Of course he's been throwing out a lot of attempt at words since the eval. So funny. I think he can now say: duck, dog, cat, hat, thank you, yay!, all done and few new others. They all kind of sound very similar to the untrained ear though...

Talk to Your Daughters...

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Can you believe what we do to ourselves?