MWNews 59

Seems the blogger is broke. It will not let me upload any images. Tells me they are aware of this problem, but does not offer any solutions. If it starts working, I will add an image to this file. It not, then I wouldn't wait for it and I would just keep reading.

I have almost given up on writing these. Not that I do not want to, I just never seem to find the time. I am always thinking I will get back to it and try tp schedule some time to do it, but I never seem to get to it. Like now, it is 2am, and I should be sleeping as I have a meeting at 3:30, but I got to thinking about the meeting and could not go back to sleep, so here I am. Probably will be falling asleep around the time the meeting starts, that is what usually happens.

Another issue is this typing is very loud. I don't know if Juanita can hear it in bed, but my office is in the closet next to the bedroom and I cannot close the door all the way, and the keyboard is very loud, so I might have to give up and continue during the day. Which means I will never get back to it. And to add to the problems, it appears that the batteries for this keyboard are going flat as I am typing lots of words but not all of them are comming through. I have to keep going back and retyping everything I have typed. Ok, the problem is beyond what I can endure. I am going to have to change the batteries. Be back in a minute.

There, now we shall see if it was the batteries or something else. It appears to have been the batteries as the only mistakes now are the ones I make typing. Glad to have that mystery solved. Of course, it doesn't address the mouse issue I am having, but that is a whole other story.

The news that is the news begins now.

As I have not posted in many months, there would seem to be a lot to tell you. I am sure I will not get to half of it, nor do I think I will even try. I think I will just start fresh and tell you about things as I remember them. I might repeat some old posts, and if you are reading these in order or something, it will be mere moments before I start repeating myself, but for me, it will have been a really long time and we know how my memory goes.

Maeghan has been at pre-school for almost a year now. She still really likes it and can't wait to go to big school. We have decided to enroll her for next year, and when I say next year, it is really just after the first of the year. Sometime at the end of January, when the school year starts. Just typing that has made be think about it. Maeghan is almost at school. I know we have been talking about it for some time, but now that it is so close, I am getting a little anxious. She is still tiny, much smaller than most of the other kids her age and I am really worried about how this will all go and how the other kids will react. She will be going to public school, something I am not favor of but we will give it a try, so things will not be as controlled as I would like. The reasons for this I might go into later but for now, it is just something we are going to do.

She does go to something called Ready, Set, Go. A program the school runs that is suppossed to get kids ready for when they begin school. It is not as good as pre-school, but I suppose it is a different environment and gets her used to going to the new school.

Maeghan is ready to go. She is mentally ready, although she has never had to deal with other kids who are not as nice as they should be. On occasion, she has had other kids pick on her and she usually will just stand there until she starts to cry. The teachers say they have not noticed this behaviour, so maybe it only happens when we are around, but I am still really worried about it. I guess all parents go through that, so we just have to get used to it.

She doesn't have a lot of friends at school, but she has some. She will not normally join in with other kids but prefers to have them join in with what she is doing. She does alright but as I keep typing this, I get more worried about it, so I am going to move on to something else.

William turns two next month. It's about time. He thinks he is about six already and acts like he owns the world, or it is just here to amuse him. Since the other kids have moved in with us, more about that later, he has developed this habit of screeming whenever he does not get what he wants. Not sure where that comes from, but I can guess. He has gotten better at talking, or we can understand him better. There is not a lot he cannot say that we do not understand, and if he cannot say it, we get him to show us what he wants or means and we get the idea then.

When Maeghan was a baby, we called her bottles, boppies. Some cute Australian thing they do with most words. Maeghan would always say she wanted a boppie. William refuses to say boppie. I have no idea why. It is a bottle, or bobble, not boppie. Lately, we have been trying to get him from drinking from a bottle, but he still wil call out bottle, bottle, whenever he is thirsty. Sometime, he will say drink, because we always ask him if he wants a drink, but most of the time it is still bottle. He does have this annoying habit of getting into the cuboards and getting his own cup to drink out of. We have the cupboard where the kids cups are down low so they can get them themselves, but he thinks this is his personell playground and will pull everything out looking for the cup he wants.

He does occasionly say bop-bop, but usually only when you do not answer him fast enough when he first asks. He also likes to say cuddle all the time and will hold his arms out so you have to pick him up and hold him. I don't know if he thinks cuddle means pick me up or he really wants to be held but how can you refuse his cute little voice saying cuddle with his arms raised in front of you. So, either way, he gets what he wants.

I am going to have to finish this later, as he is in bed with Juanita, another long story, and the typing is disturbing him. As I always say, hopefully, I can do this more often. I have a lot to say and maybe the worry about Maeghan going to school will help me write more often. Its good theoropy, I think. Anyway, I will mave to go and get 20 minutes sleep before my meeting. I hope everyone that reads this is doing well. Of course, I hope everyone is doing well even if they do not read this. It has been a while, so maybe it gives you some time to go and re-read some of the old notes. I know I enjoy that a lot.

Until next time,

Talk to you later