Eliot the draftsman

Eliot has been welcomed into the world of markers recently. he has not churned out his most definitive masterpieces yet. we are expecting great things. We pressure him as much as possible to be great and succeed where his father did not. Really he has shown moderate interest in this activity as it does not involve balls of any kind, playgrounds or Olive and Sabine.
Jess and I have been looking into methods and tools teaching at home. there is a great deal of literature out there. i am happy to say the book I am reading now is very inspiring. It is hard to tell now what we will do. We have a friend who have thought of doing this but decided not to as thier child is so appropriate for school. I hope that Eliot is that way about home schooling. It will be ideal if our choice is easy to make because of a clear preference for one or the other.
If anyone out there has read any good material on how to get started early, by all means post it. we are having a great time learning more about approaches to education.

we went on the narrowguage railroad the other day and had a great time. It is going to be done up special for a polar express reading soon so we are thinking about that as a fun winter thing to do. I have been having a hard time finding such activities as the weather has been less than ideal. Two days of keeping any two year old inside is quite a struggle.

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Memorable Moments with Meatsauce

Meals are meant to be interrupted and prolonged for their hillarity I discovered. Eliot demonstrates with his new look which we are calling "Red Steel".
We had a very uneventful day so it was nessesary for me to entertain myself using extreme parenting. We are practicing our table manners for thanksgiving. Just kidding ann and pete

Five days off

I just got off five days off and have been so relaxed. Yesterday I was able to just coast through the day and have nothing at all to do. I went to Freeport with jess and got a comforter and the fixings. We had such a nice time enjoying each others company. Today though, it is back to the old mortar and pestle.

The little guy is doing some art at the table right now so I have a bit of time to blog. This has been a great week. Eliot and I had our first mamaless night yesterday and everything went well. We both were ready to see jess when she returned though. Eliot and I had lots of fun to mask our sorrow.

I had this awful chest thing that made it not so fun to breathe and that finally has begun to clear out. I took the week off from my usual late hours and shenanigans so as to get better and my body thanks me for it.

Jess took some very nice3 pictures at her company’s symposium. She is really talented. We have been enjoying the task of resorting all of our photos, it is neat to see how much the little guy has grown up. His whole look is new since he started losing his baby fat in his cheeks.