Catching up

"Catching up" refers to more than blogging. I have also fallen behind in a lot of other things over the past week or two. I haven't lost any weight in the last 2 weeks, nor have I achieved much in the way of organization. I was able to wear my naughty librarian dress on our Valentine's date. It was still a little snug through the tummy, but I threw a jacket over top, and it looked just fine.

On our date, we bought 2 giant storage armoires for our middle room, which, once we dig it out from under our moving mess, will become our "multipurpose" room. It will be our playroom, office, and eventually, our "school" room. I allude to this in my profile blurb, but I'm going to come out and say it: we are planning to homeschool. Until recently, it has seemed like something that was years in the future. What really got me started thinking about it is that Levi has started reading! Since he was 6 months old, we have been using Starfall.com as entertainment. Yeah, I have heard all of the arguments about young kids and screen time, but it's better than a lot of the junk that's on TV. So in the process of entertaining him, we also gave him a pretty solid foundation in phonics. This has resulted in a kid who is obsessed with letters, much like others might be obsessed with Barney or Dora the Explorer. Give him a set of alphabet blocks and he will arrange them for hours on end, making "words." He has spelled several correctly, and gotten all of the correct letters for others, although they were out of order. The other day he actually read a whole sentence: "Zac has a pan." As a mom who loves reading and writing, I couldn't be more thrilled! I'm not going to push any formal instruction yet, but I am starting portfolios for both boys to highlight their learning milestones. If the next fifteen years are this exciting, I can't wait to get started!