We had a good day so far.  The kids and I went to the zoo with some friends.  It was the first time Spencer was without a stroller.  It was fine until it started getting really crowded.  Little kids can fit through small openings in the crowd that a stroller and mom can't lol.  We finally got to ride the train and both kids liked it a lot.  Rachel was super sleapy by that point so I don't know how much really got out of it, but Spencer was very happy.

Spencer fought taking a nap again and when he finally fell asleep at 3, he stayed asleep until about 5.  I think he got up and came out of his room before he was really awake because he looked very confused and then just kinda whined and wanted me to hold him for 10 minutes or so.  Rachel fell asleep on the way home from the zoo and wouldn't go back to sleep when we got home.  She went to bed at 5:30.  Poor little thing was exhausted.

Mike has been gone all day gaming with the boys.  He said several times that he would definitely not be going tomorrow, but there was almost the tone of a question in his voice.  I'm sure if I told him it was okay he would probably go, he'd almost always prefer to be doing his own stuff rather than family stuff.  He did call a couple of hours ago to 'ask' if it was okay to have pizza with the guys.

Spencer had a couple of great speech moments today.  All of which were this evening.  He was running in the backyard and I asked him what he was doing.  He replied with a couple sentences worth of unintelligible garble.  Knowing I had zero chance of deciphering it, I just said "Oh, Really!" and he looked at me without skipping a beat and said 'yeah'.  Then I came inside to do some laundry and when I looked out the bedroom window I saw him running with his dumptruck.  I opened the window and said 'hi, I'm in the window".  He came running in the house and starts running toward the bedroom saying "Mommy, ooooohhh Mommy oooooohhhhh Mommy!"  It was adorable.  Then when we were back outside, he was trying to walk up the slide, he asked for help, "Help, help, need help".  I told him he could do it himself and he kept trying saying "climb, climb, climb, I can do it!"  He really hasn't hit the I-do-it stage yet.  

I'm still working on getting him to say mommy before a request, such as Mommy, more chocolate milk please, but so far he usually just says chocolate milk repeatedly until I acknowledge him and get it.  So the Mommy, oh mommy thing was really cute tonight.  It's hard to see his personalitly shine through the language difficulties some days, so it's extra nice when I hear him being funny.

Later.