From an update Email while the two of them were up at my parents house over Christmas Break:

"Okay so he’s still alive. I thought CW was going to put him under at one point and he deserved it. We had a little talk and he has been told he will not be going to the play place tomorrow if he doesn’t stop aggravating CW and Grandpop. He’s been told that I will stay home with him and CW will get all his play money. He’s been fine since.

Otherwise everything is fine. He put himself to bed last night. I looked around for him and he wasn’t in the kitchen or living room. Went to look for him and he was in his bed covered up with the reading light on looking very sad. He asked me to read him a book so I read him several short stories which he loved. I stayed with him until he went to sleep which was quick. He slept all night and hasn’t had any accidents so far.

CW and Grandpop are making pizza and discussing the world (as usual)."

The Bad News...

...is that in parent-teacher conference yesterday I learned that CW earned herself a "C" in Math this Quarter. The Good news is that she's in the advanced group, and they are learning both 5th AND 6th Grade math, in the hopes that they can take and pass the 6th Grade Math SOL at the end of the year (she's in 5th). I'm told that she's not doing any worse than the rest of her group, her effort is apparently Good to Outstanding, so her teacher is delighted. She has also, it seems, learned to buckle down and has no apparent concentration issues anymore. My girl isn't Spacey at School!! Yay!! She seems to have earned all As and Bs in everything else, so WOO!!

So, in celebration, we went out to dinner (Bertucci's) last night, and worked on table training, and trying different foods. CW decided that she LOVES the olive oil and spices bread-dipping plate, and she liked the sausage minestrone soup that Matt got... :)

SG routinely caught us all talking with our mouths full (unfortunately we're all pretty good at it *sigh*) and the evening was spent catching each other about ever 40 seconds or so. 8-)

Blue nose

So, Matt and I are sitting here, watching tv, and SG is wandering around with M&Ms. Suddenly, he kind of stumbles and starts crying. Matt and I are both looking at him in mild alarm and asking if he's okay and I noticed that his right nostril is blue. He was pointing at his nose and wailing, when we figured out what he'd done. I had him blow his nose repeatedly (hoping the whole time that we weren't going to have to go to the ER, and laughing) and eventually, yes, the remains of the Blue M&M were expelled into the tissue.

*sigh* He's fine now, but oh he's funny...and his snot is still kind of blue on that side.