Happy Fall!

Things are gettin' sort of busy around here! Justin and I are pretty much whipped by the time Friday rolls around at the end of the week. But despite the busyness of our schedules, the boys are doing well, we're staying healthy, and life is pretty good these days. Our fall weather has been beautiful (and quite warm)--kind of hard to believe the snow might start to fly as soon as next month.

Justin's classes are keeping him on his toes. He has a couple of challenging students, but hopefully in the end he'll come out a better teacher. He's also doing a lot of reading for his dissertation proposal to make sure he's got a solid argument to make on his topic. And I'm not sure, but it's possible he's also doing some daydreaming about the upcoming ski season. Did we mention we're going to try and get both boys on skis this year? Are we a bit crazy? Probably.

I was up in Fort Collins most of today to tour meeting facilities at CSU for our board meeting next spring. It's a lovely campus and it was a great day to be up there. It sort of reminded me of my days at SPU about 100 years ago. I'm actually feeling pretty good about my meeting in Hawaii next month. There's still a lot of work to be done, but overall I don't feel like I'm about to lose my head at the moment.

Jacoby's class is finishing up the letter B this week. Today they rode the bus to Barnes & Noble for story time. His teachers have said he's quite a rock star with his letters and the in-depth study of the alphabet seems to really interest him.

And oh the things to say about Morgan! He's definitely 2.5 years old. He definitely has his own little agenda for most things in life right now. He definitely has strong opinions on a lot of matters. He's definitely the most messy eater I've ever encountered. And he's most definitely too smart for his own good.

Here are a few pics:

After haircuts they had to run to the car to brush off and get the wiggles out.

Jacoby's city

Painting

Morgan giving the camera a sly look...pretty much captures the mischievousness of his little being over the past few weeks.

Aahh. Organized bliss for Mommy. My project is complete, and now we're in training to undo old habits of coming in and flinging coats, hats, and belongings anywhere (Daddy is totally included in the training too).

And back to this child...he's recently learned to climb bookshelves to reach objects purposefully placed out of his reach. His puppy is put up on one of our taller bookshelves when Puppy needs a time-out (i.e., Mommy can't take it any more with the bickering between 2 boys over him). Tonight Morgan waltzed into the living room holding Puppy after I had just put him up on the bookshelf. When I asked how in the world he came to have Puppy in his possession, Jacoby told me in all seriousness that Morgan climbed up and got him (like, duh Mommy). Morgan offered to show me, and sure enough, the child can scale the bookshelf like nobody's business. It left me sort of speechless when he turned around, while the bookshelf swayed back and forth, and grinned at me.

Hope you all have a good week!