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@Adira: Oi, we had a really nasty viral cold 2 weeks ago. Everyone got it but DH - the lucky guy. Although it definitely hit B and me the hardest... Hope Xander feels better soon!

@Adira: Hope he's feeling better. There is a nasty cold going around daycare which Isaac mildly has.

I'm not ready for cold/flu season!

@Adira: He's mostly just had a runny nose and cough. He told me that he got sick because his friend coughed on him!

Glad Xander is feeling better.

@Adira: I wish he'd remember this himself, he's always coughing on us!

Isaac's daycare has started transitioning him to the kindergarten room. He is beyond excited and all he has talked about is how he's a kinder kid now and not a preschooler.

For me this is the most bittersweet room transition. He is just that much closer to being in school.

One of the two main teachers has been there longer than him and the other has been there a long time. They said he's doing great in the new room. They don't have a firm date of when he'll be in there 100% of the time but it probably won't be long.

@Adira: We are at a Pre-K in the elementary school and man... it sure feels like real school. It isn't like daycare where I can bring him whenever or he could miss a day. Now there are tardies and absences. And I have to drop off from the car (which is nice in some ways but it feels so weird to not talk to the teacher every day.) He eats in the cafeteria and can even buy lunch! (He loves this btw!)

@Adira: He is currently in the preschool room which is 3 & 4 year olds. They don't do kindergarten but those age kids have a room. I wasn't expecting for him to move up until the new year.

@travellingbee: Wow! That is so grown up. I'm not ready for this. I bet it is cute with them all in the cafeteria eating.

@travellingbee: Wow, your situation really sounds like school.

Z is in the same 4-5yo room she moved to in Dec. She was having a lot of issues listening (and intentional potty accidents) through the summer. Her teachers thought it was probably all the transitions of half her class graduating/leaving and half the "baby class" moving up. Fortunately as of the last two weeks she seems to have turned it around. The teachers are calling her a leader and have told me every day that she has learned to nap on her own (a mere 4.5 years after I started trying to nap train and just in time to outgrow a nap). It is so nice to have her getting some positive attention now. It's been so nice to have a happy girl again.

@Adira: Isaac decided to write a list tonight. I've already got two things that are in it! One thing is a sled, so I think I'll try to get that and then I'm basically done. Is their present going to be to share?

@Smurfette: Trying to read is awesome! It is hard to find time to do these things at home. Hopefully you will get to do some decorating for Christmas.

Hi all! It's nice hearing everyone's updates!

We are also gearing up for the holidays here. I'm really looking forward to all the traditions now that Pete remembers and enjoys them! So far, he'd like magnetic marble ramps and some new train tracks from Santa.

He's also extremely interested in letter sounds and trying to read. He can spend a whole car ride asking, "Okay, now let's make a list of all the words that start with tr-! Now all the words that start with dr-!" and so on. Haha, sometimes my husband and I just want to listen the radio! I'm surprised that it hasn't clicked with him yet, but I'm not in any rush. He and Grace love to look through books together and it's the sweetest thing.

The potty humor is also in full force at this age. He loves poop and pee jokes. And knock knock jokes.

Hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving!!!

@Pumuckl: That's too bad the bed won't be there in time. Bunk beds will be fun!

@QueensBee: We get a lot of fart jokes around here. They are especially funny because they usually don't make any sense. That is awesome that he is figuring out groups of words that start with the same sound.