Well, we got our first kindergarten call! The kindergarten that we liked called us yesterday and wanted to do an interview. The guy was kind of surprised that I spoke mostly English and he asked if my husband speaks German. I guess since our application was so well written, it took him by surprise. I set up an appointment for this morning for a 15 minute interview. I immediately left a message for Michael to get his hair cut!!!

We were kind of running late this morning, but managed to make it there right on time. I thought it was going to be a casual thing, us mingling with the teachers/parents, but it was really formal. There were about 6 teachers and parents behind a table and some chairs for us to sit on. The boys sat with us for some of the time and then played on the trampoline. They behaved very well except for sticking every tea spoon in their mouths. oops.

They asked us really serious questions and we were so nervous about answering that I don’t know if we gave really good answers. As I replay it in my head, it gets worse and worse and now I feel like there is no hope for them to call us back. I think the whole English thing might not be very good for them - most of them didn’t feel comfortable speaking English. We did do a question in German, so maybe that helped our lost cause. The thing that’s good about this place is that they give a 50% sibling discount!!! The main guy who talked to us is a twin himself so maybe he will take pity on us.

We should’ve prepared a couple of questions for them, but we really didn’t have any. That may have been a bad thing though. Oh well. Keep your fingers crossed for us!

I also wanted to tell you about some of the words the boys have learned. Rowan learned “crying” because in the “Teeth are not for Biting” book, there is a girl who was crying because she got bitten. Elijah has learned “I do” for when he wants to do something himself. He also has some cute pronunciations like “noop” (milk) and “pea ba-pur” (peanut butter). Recently he started saying “big eat” for when he has a big spoonful of whatever. Rowan says “zeet” (shirt). They both know the stuffed animals in their room - Heedley, Ivan and Hector.

They have been driving me nuts with how much mess they can make, but I’ve been trying as much as possible to have them put something away before taking the next thing out. Usually their cars/bikes makes them put everything away. Also when they mess their bed up, I make them put it back. Of course they can’t put the blankets back on properly, so I let them sleep with it messed up. They are a little disturbed when they don’t have perfectly made beds. But not disturbed enough that they don’t mess it up. Their cars, bikes and chairs have been in multiple timeouts whenever they are in the kitchen. It is slowly working.

They are in a really nice hugging and kissing phase. I hope they don’t grow out of that too soon!!!