DAK update

Now that Dylan has started kindergarten and we decided not to send Aidan to preschool this year I have decided to work with Aidan at home. So far we are off to a good start with him doing a couple of worksheets a week. Once I am no longer stressed or preoccupied with the whole house situation I will work more with him.
I felt so bad for him when we dropped Dylan off that first day and he asked me when he was going to go to school. It didn't help when Dylan reminded me that he went when he was 3. We chose not to send Aidan because we didn't think it was worth the money. He will definitely be going next year. And he seems to enjoy doing stuff at home with me so we save money and he is happy.

Dylan is loving school, of course it is only the first week but am glad to see him so excited about it. As for me it is taking getting used to getting them out and driving to the school 5 days a week. I think I may need to move my afternoon coffee to the mornings :)

Keira is now 10 1/2 months old and I really need to start planning for her first birthday. It is just so hard with so much other stuff going on. I really don't know how working moms do it all. I think we are going to go with a pumpkin theme since she was born close to Halloween and we nicknamed her "Pumpkin" before she was born.
I have been trying to work with her to get her to stand or walk but she just refuses to lock those knees and stand. She goes rubbery in the legs whenever I try. No big deal really as the boys didn't walk until they were a little over a year old.

Kindergarten

Holy cow, Dylan starts kindergarten tomorrow. Now I would have thought that maybe I would be a bit emotional but don't think I will be. He has gone to preschool now for the past two years so this is pretty much the same thing except that he will be going 5 days a week. But who knows tomorrow after I drive away from the school I may get a little emotional; it would probably be worse if I was putting him on a bus as that would make him seem so much older. But we are within the limit for walkers/drop-offs so I will be the bus driver for quite some years.
Now that he is going 5 days a week I am unsure of how/when I will be able to get out and get minor errands done as Keira still is taking her 9:00 nap and I would never get out of the house until 10:15 or so and then I need to pick Dylan up by 11:24 (I know, such an odd time). And then we have to be home for lunch at 12:00 and then naps until 3:00ish and then dinner needs to be started by 4:15 the latest. So I may be running a lot of errands on my own at night until Keira no longer takes that morning nap.

More on moving back in

I forgot to mention in my previous post another issue I encountered upon moving back in. I noticed the day we moved in that I was missing an entire set of drinking and juice glasses, two good pots, crock pot and a couple pieces of silverware. After a few days I began to realize other stuff had gone missing such as my wok and dutch oven. Now I would think that maybe someone wandered in to the house (since it was kept unlocked all the time) and took the stuff but why would they leave behind my food processor, bread maker and ice cream maker? No, I do believe that the workers took them to either cook in on the job or take home to use. I will be letting the contractor know as soon as we are completely moved in; I would hate to say something now and then discover them in the pack rat.
It just really makes me mad that we were told it was okay to leave all of our kitchen stuff in the house. If things are not found I plan on taking a few hundred dollars out of the final payment to cover the cost of the missing items. Plus some of those things were gifts and could have had sentimental value (they didn't though).