Day 1

As I type this, Q is sitting next to me playing on his ipod. It is so weird to have a sidekick! He's easy peasy though. He has a really good attention span. Once he gets on something, he'll do it for a good 30 minutes sometimes. Of course, he's got to be next to me right now which is fine and also understandable. If I go in the other room, he's right behind. But it is really nice that I can get work done (and this done) and he'll just play on his ipod.

Cliff's got the other sidekick. He's a little more active than his brother. He LOVES to go outside and play basketball or just go outside. He likes going for walks with his scooter. His attention span is much more sporadic. Sometimes he'll play something for awhile and other times he's switching from activity to activity every five minutes. He's also super attached to Dad. Dad left yesterday to go to the store and every five or so minutes D was at the door looking for him or swearing he saw his car or heard the car. Q is a little more attached to me but he mostly attaches to both of us equally. D will give me hugs and do things with me but I can already tell that he's more attached to Dad.

We're mostly going with the flow over here. I'm trying to start a routine as far as when they eat, shower and go to bed but during the day we're *trying* to just do what they want to do.

Q lost a tooth yesterday! When we picked them up at the airport, he was showing me he could wiggle it, then a couple hours later he just pulled it out! I was so proud of him! Then he took his stuffed rabbit into the bath with him and got it all soapy, I was not so proud of him at that point! I ended up calling my mom (thank goodness for my mom!) to find out how to wash it in the washing machine. It came out fine, thank goodness and I've learned my first mom lesson!

The days are punctuated with A LOT of "good jobs". What else do you say when they say "i beat this level" "i did such and such". They are very polite and say "thank you" for everything!! They'll randomly give hugs.

It is definitely an adjustment. I got up at 6:45, thinking that was early enough and they were already up when I got downstairs! They didn't go to bed til after 9!

While I was typing this, D came in and gave me a hug. He just wanted to know where Q and I were.

And now I've got to go because Q wants to go outside with everyone else.  See, he gave me about 30 mins!

I'll update when I can.

xoxo
nikki