quick catch-up

bean is 5 years big... so lovely, getting braver, still enthralled with the colour pink.
littlebean is 20 months old and tall and lovely. she's pretty quiet, especially when compared to her verbally precocious older sis, but has her chosen words and uses them with force and conviction (i.e., MINE!! MOMMY!! MAMA!! NO!! - the toddler standards...)

funnily enough, reading the older posts on this blog, she is still the very physically close little cuddler... halfway through each meal at home, she pushes her plates and cup closer to mine and migrates to my lap to finish my food as well as hers... each and every meal ends with littlebean on my lap - not sure how the end to that will come about, but i'm sure it will. i won't be eating with a 30-year-old balanced on me so i'm not going to force this issue.

as for me, i've just had my first teeny solo with an orchestra, i'm about to go on a job interview to be "eligible to hire" as a music supply teacher and i'm trying to prepare the house for christmas and the bean for surgery (also on tuesday). and in a minute, i'm going to put on some make-up for an audition for a garbage bag commercial. my hair is still a bit damp on the ends from swimming with the bean's class at school so i might have to fuss with that, too. dinner's in the slow cooker waiting for the beans to come back from gymnastics with their grandparents and then we'll be together until i go off to church choir rehearsal while daddy does bedtime.

all in a day's work... and i do love it.