Accalia's soccer practice was cancelled today. Not to worry, though! She has practice tomorrow and Thursday. She's so eager to get out there and meet the other girls on her team. It looks as if there are five other girls.

Otherwise it's been a pretty quiet evening. All three kids are still awake, and they're all so calm and happily playing. I was hoping Ella would go to sleep early so I could take a shower tonight, but I guess taking a nap at 4 p.m. kind of nixes any early bedtimes.

Anne asked how Accalia is doing since Mercedes moved away and if Mercedes has come back to visit. Mercedes has not returned, and I didn't really expect her to be back. Her mom and step dad didn't really strike me as the type to make an effort for things involving a child. Accalia hasn't really mentioned Mercedes except for one day when one of the neighborhood girls came over (those visits don't happen nearly as often now that Mercedes isn't next door). Actually, lately Accalia has been doing a lot of solo activities. She'll go up to her room and play up there, or if I go outsides with Cole and Ella then Accalia will often just stay inside or go back inside before we do. She goes through phases of wanting to do activity books or workbooks, and that's something she's been doing with the majority of her time these last couple days. Thankfully we have a huge supply of that sort of thing. I think it was probably receiving this freebie in the mail that peaked her interest in workbooks/activity books again.

Speaking of freebies, here are a couple things that Cole has really enjoyed:

- free Planet Heroes dvd
- free K'nex sample set.