Growing up...

Last night, when I put Chase to bed... we made a deal. I told him that if he woke up early for school that he could go on the computer. This morning, I woke up to Chase saying, "Mom, can you help me with the computer?". It was music to my ears not to have to pry him out of bed! Once Chase was off to school, Claire took over his spot at the computer playing games at Playhouse Disney. She is having a difficult time with the fact that Disney has discontinued "Higglytown Heroes". She's been watching the show since we moved back to St. Louis-- she was less than 2 years old!

Henri had gymnastics today... he's quite the tumbler. He loves to do forward roll after forward roll. After gymnastics, Henri and I came home to finish the "birthday" brownies with ganache and sprinkles to take to Claire's school. Henri had a difficult time waiting to eat a brownie... he kept saying, "Mom, they done. Brownies ready." At Claire's school, they have lunch bunch on Wednesdays and today they celebrated the 4 summer birthdays with a pizza party. All of the kids had a lot of fun... the teachers got the birthday kids little gifts... the kids were excited to be celebrating what Claire calls a "fake birthday". So today, was Claire's last lunch bunch at preschool and her last Wednesday besides graduation next week.

This afternoon, Claire had dance. She has really come out of her shell this year. Actually dancing and conversing with her teacher and making friends. Back to Claire singing all of the time... today it was Kanye West "Robocop". The girl has a thing for music :) After dance, we went to Aaron's office and then out to dinner. The kids wouldn't go into the restaurant until Aaron got there... but when he did arrive... they ran to him with their arms wide open and JUMPED all over him! It's been a wacky night... Claire and Henri are still up... and ALL over the place! I suppose, though, at least they're having fun together.