Father's day

Today was father's day. We just puttered around the house today and grilled tonight. Wade was really tired today so we were pretty low key. When I went to call my dad, I told Calvin that we were going to call grandpa and tell him happy father's day and Cal says "it's Grandpa's father day too?" And I explained that yes, it's father's day for all of the dad's and grandpas. I'm not sure that he really understood but it was pretty cute. Then when he talked to Grandpa Floyd and Grandma Gloria tonight, they told him they were sitting around a bon fire. He was very concerned and told Grandma to call the fire department to put out the fire. Too funny.

We are still doing no tv for the boys. It's going well, Cal hardly asks to watch anything anymore and doesn't really say much when I tell him no. Funny that it's a lot easier to never turn it on than it ever was to turn it off, if that makes sense.

update

We have decided to attempt to go without TV for the boys, we are on day 2. A big part of this decision is based on where I started to work this year: a Waldorf school. The philosophy there is that media for young children is not healthy. I've read many articles about tv contributing to ADHD and I have sitnessed for myself that my 3 year old is much better behaved when he doesn't watch tv. Wade and I also watched a show on Thursday night that talked about the development of human babies and it all tied in to how the Waldorf school views it. The timing of it was perfect for us. Cal may be able to go to the school I'm working at in the fall and in order for that to happen, we have to agree to be media free for the kids. I think we can do it!

We are all trying to get over being sick. Me and the boys have had a head cold for a couple weeks. Cal is about cured. Cody and I are still snotty and coughing but it's getting better. Wade is unscathed at still.

Wade starts a new job tomorrow! We're very grateful that something came along that seems like it's going to work out well. We'll see if we still think so after he starts :) He'll be working as a mechanic again and about a 4 minute drive from the house, right on the way to where our day care is. Which is SO nice, especially considering my commute is 45 minutes each way. Not very handy if there were to be an emergency.

Cal and I went to the nursery yesterday and bought some flowers to plant. We're going out now and we're going to make mud, I mean we're going to plant the flowers. Gotta go!