School, children and how time does fly!

OH My! has it really been since January?! My poor readers in blog space, I do apologize most sincerely for my neglect of you. Whoever *you* might be! Well, let's recap shall we? I've been in school since September, it took me several years 9 to figure out exactly what I wanted to be when I grew up...A figure skater (that's right I said it, you know you were thinking so no hating!) A rock star (no laughing here, I can totally headbang with the best of them) A teacher (me molding 20 little minds at once is maybe not such a great idea) A writer....heh...and drumroll please I discovered that there is a deep rooted love of baked desserts. Cake, Cookies, Pie, Brownies, if you can bake it and it's dessert I LOVE it, I love eating it, I love smelling it, I love making it..I don't love cleaning up after it but I'm ignoring that fact for now. And so, due to this love of sweetness I've decided that I want to be a pastry chef. More specifically this love of sweets and the desire to be healthy and figure out a healthy way to eat said sweets has prompted me to look into opening an organic desserts bakery. And so I'm in school to learn how to do something I kind of already know how to do...just not in bulk. So, class takes up ALOT of time..more accurately homework takes up a lot of time and some of my classes I could just pitch. Really. Any way in other news:

Solomon will be three (EEK!!!!!!!) in September, we're attempting to potty train again with hopes that we can teach him to stand up instead of sit down (since he falls in when he sits down, so sad that my child is that skinny, but totally funny to watch) and we've got a book (for us) and a video (for him I know what you're thinking, the video doesn't show him how to go potty it just gets him excited to be a big kid) and yes, I said potty. It's kind of corny this video, it's called Potty Power and My child wants to watch it all the time. He even tries to sing the songs (they have one about wiping and washing hands and...ok I'll stop) This is a little sad, his first song isn't twinkle twinkle little star...it's tinkle tinkle...no really, it's not that it's wiping from front to back! whew...ok. Joash weighs nearly as much as big brother and can stand for a few seconds on his. He's very proud of this and will stand up, clap his hands, giggle and promptly fall back down again. And laugh some more. He says bababa and dadada and mama. He has 3 teeth, 2 down and 1 up which he grinds all the time and drives me nuts. He crawls really fast now and likes to wrestle with Solomon. This process of watching my kiddos grow up is so very bittersweet. I love to see all the new and exciting things they are doing and yet I want them to stay little for just a while longer. I'm not ready for them to grow up yet. By the way it's moms like me that end up with 20 something kids! (I refuse, I stop at 9...maybe 12) I can't believe that Solomon is going to be 3, that Joe is almost a year! I can't believe that Solomon gets to move up to the big kids class in a few months and that Joe will be in the toddler room at about the same time. I keep going back and forth between wanting to try for more kids (though if you knew our circumstances you would know that the term 'try' is used as a colloquial term, we don't have to 'try' we either are or we aren't pregnant) this summer or wait another year. Ugh, decisions decisions. I suppose we'll just cross that bridge when we come to it.

Well, I think that's it for updates. We fly to Cali in a few days to visit my dad and family out there! Sunshine (i hope) here we come! And in August we're driving {egads} to Colorado for my brother's wedding. So we've got some travelling to do this summer which will be fun. I'll keep you all posted.