Little Friends

Before I had kids I had no intention of ever being a full time stay at home mom. Why? I thought I'd be bored. Seriously. Now I can't believe I ever thought that. I mean, obviously sometimes you get bored, but who doesn't? Overall though, I feel like I'm so busy I can barely get the basics done each day. One thing keeping us busy lately, is friends.

At the beginning of October, a couple of the moms in our neighborhood andI started doing a preschool of sorts with our kids. There are only 5 of them and we meet twice a week for 2 hours each. We have been working on learning letters using a super cute book that tells a short story for each letter and teaches the sound of that letter.

We are also using Signing Time to teach them sign language. And of course, we play and eat. It's basically a more structured play group.Lucy absolutely loves it! She loves to go play with her friends and she is learning some of her letters. She likes A and E the best and will do the sound and action to go with the letters.

We take turns teaching which is nice too because when it isn't our turn, it's a nice opportunity to get some shopping or house cleaning done sans toddler.

When we named Lucy, Lucy, we didn't know a single other Lucy. Then our first Sunday at church, a little girl named Lucy was blessed. They are 3 months apart. Then this summer a family moved in with a little girl named, you guessed it, Lucy. She's 4 months older than our Lucy. All three Lucys are 2 right now and all three are blond. It can get a bit confusing at times. They've all learned their last names now - kind of a good skill for them to have already! Here they are all together on Halloween.

Sammy isn't without his friends either. Between the months of February and September, there were 12 babies born in our ward. Sammy was number 6. In fact, six of the babies were born within six weeks of each other and Sammy was the second of that little group. So there are lots of little ones his age. He's starting to get to the age where he notices them a little more too. Here he is with the little boy who lives 3 houses down from us. Simon is only 8 days younger than Sammy. We are looking forward to watching all our little kiddos grow up together!