Drew's breakfast

Insisted he wanted cold waffles (homemade kind, not those Eggos thrust upon the proletariat). So, cold waffles he got. And, he appears to be enjoying them mightily.

Nicknames

Not that we are hankering for a move to nickname based child identification, but if we ever do with one for Drew, the obvious choice is "Dash" based on the movie The Incredibles. Seriously, watch it. It's Drew.

Basketball Camp

Kate is back from her first overnight high school basketball camp. She worked very hard with Sherri's team. Did the fundamental stations as best she could, "won" a dribbling game with her group, and did a super job with lots of physical activity and little sleep. Read way more books than we initially estimated. Her current favorites are the Junie B. Jones series. Hadn't heard of those til Amanda but Kate is quickly pouring through that pile.

Ben survived his time without Sherri around. Drew probably got a little too comfortable as the lead child of the house so he has been under a bit stricter eye the last couple of days.

The race is still on to see if Ben crawls or stands up first. A backward seal walk is definitely mastered.

Drew is funny. And, other stuff.

While walking down the stairs last night, Pophank was going into his tendency of over-managing a situation and telling Gram something to do that she had well under control.  Her response to him was "Dick, still 61."

Followed immediately by Drew, "Pophank, still two and a half."

The other stuff.  Ben is on the verge of either crawling or standing up and taking off.  A bit of a race to see which happens first.  Gotta do video of it.  Or pictures, or something. He can kind of move himself around backwards, the inefficiency of that movement is perplexing.  Kate is having a blast at VBS with Sherri as her teacher.  Sherri has to keep reminding herself that the rest of the class is not quite where Kate is when it comes to reading/writing ability which is throwing some kinks in the progress of the class activities.

PopHank = Methuselah

Kate about Pop Hank and the location of Randy's Water Garden in proximity to
the Gwinnett airport: "He knows almost about everything 'cause he's seen
everything for a long time"

Updates

It's not a dereliction of duty, the kids just haven't had any ridiculously cute moments recently. More like run of the mill awesomeness.

Kate/Drew/Sherri went to Six Flags with Andrew/Shari. Drew did some of the bigger rides for the first time. Kate is tall enough to do the rides with the 48" height limit, but Andrew wasn't. She handled not going on those well so as not to make Andrew jealous though. I think their days of being size twins are rapidly ending thanks to wildly divergent genetic heritages.

Drew appears to now be motly good with anthropomorphic, life-sized characters. The Chick-fil-a cow has received hugs a couple of times in a row. As he did it he said "I'm going to do something great!" "I'm gonna come see you cow!"

Drew also apparently had his first experience with waking up in the middle of the night, realizing he needed to potty, and doing the whole process on his own and heading back to bed.

Kate got her new mattresses and proclaimed it her best bed ever.

Ben is getting vaguely into crawling position, though no movement yet. He'll also hold onto fingers and pull up. Only a matter of time before I have to start chasing him around the gym during basketball.