This week

our little turtle house. he is burried somewhere in there.

so cute.

Ben rocking out

Dave and Ben having a jam session. The band, Heathers Headache, has moved into our basement. It hasn't been as bad as I thought. I was terrified that our neighbors would hate us but it wasn't that loud. They are way deep in the basement. I could hardly hear them. They come Friday nights. The kids were so excited to see the band play at our house. They went right to bed that night after playing with the band a little bit. They were quiet and I thought they went straight to bed. I went up there around 10 and both of them were laying there in their beds being really quiet so they could hear the band still. So cute. Then another day I was upstairs in the middle of the day and I heard someone playing the drums. Turns out that is what Ben has been drawn to so after that we had to lock the room up before Ben destroyed all the instruments. I am glad they can practice here instead of having to go to Baltimore every Sat night. So far it has worked out.

This has been the most beautiful week ever. It's nice and cool and the leaves are changing color. It makes me so happy. Dave is off work for 2 weeks so we have gotten a lot done around the house to get it more organized and settled. I finally have the energy to do it and now the help with Dave around. We got the toys organized in the basement. We have a whole wall storage unit to keep everything organized. I was so excited when Dave was putting it up. The whole time Dave was reminding me that just because we have place to put the toys now doesn't mean it will always be clean. So far the kids have been pretty good about putting the toys back in the boxes. We will see how long it lasts. We have put up some drapes and cleaned out the garage. We may even be able to park both cars in there, really exciting I know. We cleaned up our room and finally unpacked it all and we have a lot more room in there now than we thought when all the boxes were pushed to the side of the room. It's very nice to have the house start to get order.

Siena continues to love preschool. She loves the fact that Dave has been able to take her and pick her up from school, which makes both of us really happy. She had a show and tell and a puppet show come to the school. She loved it and I am so happy she has fun there. I actually spoke to her teacher today about if Siena had any friends and she said she did and that all the 5 girls play really nicely together. Everyday we ask her who she plays with and she just says some girls. She doesn't know their names. I got actual names from the teacher today so now I know she isn't just making things up. It's good to know.

We found a fun friend in our backyard. Ben and Dave were outside and found a turtle caught down in the window opening to the basement. The kids were way excited. We have box and some leaves and carrots and things in there. Who knows how long we will keep him. We let him out of the box today and he was walking pretty quickly away from us. We may go drop him off by the nature center nearby. I kinda feel bad for him and he creeps me out a little.

When I was pregnant with Siena I was a nanny for two little girls. I nannied for them until I was pregnant with Ben. I am watching them again for a couple of days. They are so nice to have around. Siena adores them and they totally watch out for my kids that I hardly have to do anything it has been really great, except for the part that they have a lot of activities that they go to. I have been driving around Alexandria a lot more than usual carting them all around.