Sep 23 2007
Moving right along
Well, somehow the last few weeks have gotten away from me and I haven’t had much I was willing to say. I guess I still feel that way about a few different things, but I’m always up for bragging on my little darlings!
AJ went camping with my mom and Vince last Sunday through Tuesday. They did some biking on the Rails to Trails path above Pine Creek State Park. Apparently they saw a bear digging in a garbage dumpster and eating trash. Some time either before or after that, they found some bear “scat” (according to Pop) and examined it to determine what the bear ate. AJ says he ate grapes and acorns (there were seeds and shells in the waste I guess!)
Zoe has been eating like a trooper and doing a pretty good job of keeping things down, although she has also been drooling up a storm so she can go through quite a few bibs in the course of a day. She’s getting some chunky thighs and looks so cute. Today, Mom was feeding her but she spent most of that time with her head turned to look at me, so a good bit of her bottle leaked out of the corner of her mouth and all over her bib and through that to her outfit.
We’ve had gorgeous weather and today was no exception. We took the bikes and rode with AJ on the bike path near mom’s. AJ is doing great with starting and stopping on his own. He had one incident where he fell, but the pedal came off the bike, so in all fairness, he really wasn’t at fault there. He had no idea what to do with his foot when that happened! (Poor kid!) 
This afternoon we went to see a local college soccer game and met up with his friend from school. AJ and G had a great time playing soccer and Power R@ngers. We moms kept being captured and locked in a dungeon. It was so toasty that I think I’ve got a bit of color from standing out there in the sun for 2 hours during the game. We left before overtime started. The score was 0-0 when we left.
I’ve been reading Twilight by Stephenie Meyer and really enjoyed it. I finished it up yesterday afternoon after the Penn State game was over. I’d been reading it, but kept getting interrupted by kids or falling asleep. A student was popping in the library every day to ask if I’d finished it and she could borrow it. She had it over the weekend last week and I got it back from her on Friday so I finished it up over the weekend. I’m looking forward to reading the next two in the series. They’re pretty well written and very enjoyable. It’s nice to find books that I like to read and have no qualms recommending to students. I read last week that MTV has bought the rights to the movie, so I bet it will be flying off my shelves frequently this school year. I think I got our copy from the book fair and a student donated the sequels to the library after she’d finished reading them. So nice to have students who want to give back. Over the weekend it hit me that she’s got a last name that might make her related to a high school basketball star I graduated with, so I’ll have to remember to ask her if he’s her daddy or uncle or anything! 
