The empty bathtub

Oh Mr. Bubble...I thought you'd be
an enticement, but no such luck.
Sorry you're all alone! 

Well there it sits, our sad and lonely bathtub.

Last summer, Amy took lots of baths...almost solely baths, unless there was a time constraint. Even though she'd protest having to get cleaned up at all, she'd end up in the tub and stay there for as long as possible.

And then once school started, it was all showers. Even when I tried to cajole her into taking a bath - if she was having a bit of a hard day, and I knew she had time to take a nice long, relaxing bath – no dice. [The spider she saw in the tub one day didn't help, either.]

The bathtub sits unused. The toys unplayed with. The Mr. Bubble bottle full. It's so sad.

I think my wish to keep her taking baths is mostly due to the fact that no playing with toys in the bathtub = a grown up kid. Reed stopped taking baths a long, long time ago – probably when he was five or so? Sigh.

I guess this is the way it's supposed to go. No more little kids playing with cups of water or foam alphabet letters. Just grown up kids.

Amy's ponies

As I said before, Amy logs a lot of time drawing. And she's been especially working on drawing My Little Pony....here's a sample of her latest work. She watches a lot of tutorials online to get better at these, and I think her work is amazing!

"One bear, one bee," version 2.0

Back when he was about 2 1/2, Reed went through a phase of wearing one bee slipper and one bear slipper, rather than a matching pair. He'd raise 1 finger and say "One bear, one bee". It. Was. So. Cute. I wish we had a better picture of it, but this is all I could find...Amy is about a month old in this picture.

And last night I said to Reed, "Nice pizza socks!" and he quickly showed me....he had one pizza sock and one bacon sock. 

Everything old is new again, some thing never change! Love it! Maybe I'm just nostalgic, but somehow "One pizza, one bacon" doesn't have quite the same ring to it. And then this morning he was wearing the socks still...I said "Please change your socks...unless this is the other half of yesterday's pair!" and he was irritated at himself for not thinking of trying that excuse. :)

More on the GeoBee

So we did a little experiment to see if Reed would ever tell us about the GeoBee he qualified for....and he finally did today, after the first day back at school. Thank goodness. Not sure when it is but this time he seems to be a little open to the idea of doing some prep work, so we'll see how it goes!