kidtime

I'm havin' a lot of fun with the kids, though the parental - maternal(?) guilt is huge. Kalian doesn't really cry when I leave but happily hands me my purse (which I don't need but it's a relic of my former connection with her - wah!).

Since Liam is much more verbally expressive, he asks often for me to come with him - and last night after I got home from curriculum night at L's preschool, Liam just wanted me to put him to bed - I swear, I don't want it to be a competition, but it's so great to have him want me - is that pathetic, psychotic and damaging to my kid to admit that?

Curriculum night - an incredible powerpoint slide show with music of all of the kids and the details of the playbased curriculum at CE - it was nice, but a little over the top - once again, why are we going into debt, so that they can put that together.

Afterwards, there were refreshments (again, out of our tuition - why does this bother me so much? it doesn't bother me - at least as much at the Kschool - maybe I just expect it at Harvard - but not for three year olds) in his classroom - I just have very little energy to connect with parents there - is it b'c i can't relate or b/c I don't anticipate us staying?

Got an e-mail from the Berkeley version of CE - stepone - even though I put Kalian's name on a list one month after she was born - it probably won't be early enough! If we come out in January, we'll have to visit them and anywhere else we might be able to send her. My fantasy is to get into Berkeley and send her to preschool there.

Chris got the kids a play kitchen/cash register at goodwill for $5 - it's a huge chunk of plastic but will hopefully help winter and inside time less of a wrestling match for the two of them. Of course, my budding capitalist loves to play store - it's such a challenge teaching him socialist values around buying and selling of products.

K's going backwards in her pottying - it happened after her trip to NC - not surprising but understandably frustrating for Chris.

Liam is having really intense sensory issuess - he just loses it if he doesn't nap, it seems. Kalian shows no signs whatsoever of any of those issues, thankfully, but they are both so adorable i the morning when they snuggle with me - competing each for some ama - K to suck and L to hold - is that more cps material or what?