I'm so tired today, but we made it one day closer to school! Cole is doing great lately - so sweet and funny and much happier now that he can express his wants/needs/feelings verbally. I think he adds five words a day, although I admit I can't understand them all. Today when I was changing his diaper, he was playing with the strap & buckle on the changing pad (which has never actually been used), and he said "need to buckle up please mama". I had to make him say it 4-5 times to get it, but sure enough, that's what he said!

Luke had a hard day today. Really destructive and fell apart about little things. He is happy that Reid is home, and they played really well together in their room at "quiet time", but then he got tired this evening and had a hard time at the park when Brad took them to Circle C. I think one of his triggers may be blue food coloring; I really see a change in him after he eats colored icing, and he had some Saturday AND some last night at Sunday school. I guess I'll have to keep a journal of what he eats and how he feels, because I hate seeing him so unhappy.

Gray is still struggling with his "digestive issues", but hopefully I can find the right balance between prunes, benefiber, water and oatmeal and he'll get better soon. He did put away a serious amount of rice and beans at dinner tonight, so we'll see how that works out.

Here's some pics I took of the boys when they were playing in the front yard this morning. Luke loves to sit on the railing, and Cole wanted to get up there, too, so I made them all sit there while I got my camera. (Gray was playing next door with Grand Pink and Barbara.)



Maybe I'll paint that trim around the window before Reid's birthday party this weekend. You know, the window that was replaced in April? Nice.