Clearly, it’s been a while since I posted. In the post move ruckus, I was dealing with the normal change stuff, but when I planned the move, I seem to have forgotten just how extensive my old website was. All kinds of crazy stuff that I don’t recall creating/linking to – but it’s there, so I must have done it. Apparently.
Anyway, when I’m not checking out the missing file error log, then I’ve been tweaking things. Oh, and working on the continued success of raising the kids and all that other fun/crazy stuff. Which reminds me: parentingchronicles.com seems to be offline, largely in part due to the way that the site is configured. Sorry, can’t change it now, but that will be fixed shortly (I hope).
What’s new…. Well, the kids are almost done with school for the year. We had the kindergarten picnic earlier this week – it went well, I thought – and we also bought a new camera: 
The Canon PowerShot A560. It’s a super-fancy 7.1MP digital camera with 4x optical zoom and some other fancy stuff – like the new Automatic Face Finder thingee, which is all the rage with the cool kids of late. If your camera doesn’t have that, then you’re camera is old and weak. Really. You should just give up and go home 
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Anyway, like I said it’s a great camera. The LCD is 2.5″, which is pretty big – much bigger than we’re used to. It makes it easy to see what you’re getting a photo of, and makes it really easy to make sure you got the right shot. The only bad photos I’ve taken so far have been the ones with bad poses – or the usual eyes closed thing – I don’t think there’s a feature that can fix that, but I keep looking….
We’ve only taken a few photos with it so far, but as I said, they’ve been mostly good ones. :noah: has a T-Ball game today, so I’m hoping that I’ll be able to get some good photos during the game. If not (it will be me and three kids), then I’m hoping to be able to post some of the photos from Kindergarten picnic the other day.
We’ve also got some exciting stuff going on in the schooling front. Miss Abigail (Miss B or just plain :abby: ) is making the exciting from pre-school to Kindergarten. We don’t know who her teacher will be next year (although we’re liking Ms. Griffin after all of Noah’s success this year) we’re sure she’ll do fine.
Noah is moving up to the multi-age program. I think I’ve covered this before, but it’s two classrooms that are both 1st and 2nd graders. It’s a co-operative learning environment. I don’t know much about the theories behind it, I just know that the school has had a lot of success with the program, they’re proud of it, and :emma: had a good time with it when she was in the program. If our luck holds, Abby will be in the program in two years, which would mean that she and Noah will be together in some of their classes. Hopefully they’ll do a little better dealing with each other than they do now – but since that’s in two years, I’m hopeful that things will be ok.
:ethan: is progressing nicely. We’re not doing anything formal with him, but he’s a bit of a sponge when it comes to learning things. He’s working on colors, knows a shape or two, and is just a great, funny little monkey. He’s got more than a few words under his belt, and he’s starting to put toddler sentences together, which makes everyones lives easier (“I want cookie” is much more likely to get a cookie and no tears than “That!” and a lot of pointing in a general direction). Plus, who doesn’t love hearing “Daddy!” shouted when he spots me coming home and then a big hug from a little monkey? The other kids are all “Oh, hey, your home – can I have a snack?” or something.
Well, I think that’s enough updating for now. Emma’s got a party to go to, I have to get ready and then get the other three ready for the T-Ball game, and then there’s supposed to be some time for some lawn mowing later today, I hope. Well, maybe. Photos and updates, and will hopefully resume on a more frequent basis starting later today – depending on how T-Ball goes, I should think.
