ok, so cayle walked part of the way to the bike shop today with peter silver tapley. she described him as the older boy from montessori named peter........he went in the shop with her, got a drink from the fountain and went on home. ernst said he hardly recognized him he had grown so much. when andrew was in preschool, the 5th graders seemed so big, when he was in james' room, the 5th graders still seemed so big, when andrew was in the 5th grade, he seemed so small, and unready to go on to bate. it is hard to believe that cayle is 2 years out of middle school.

.i had told cayle that we would put up one wall of wallpaper in her new room (stephan's old room) and a border. alas, it has now occured to ernst and i that we putup the shelving over stephan's wallpapered wall- and that taking down said wallpaper may be more than we are prepared to do right now- taking down every single metal track/screw/board.........oh my........this child has her hopes set on a treeline border with a sky background onm the accent wall- which is infinitely better than the wolfpack border she chose originally...because she likes wolves... because she is reading call of the wild in silent reading at school.......ernst decided to try to talk her into liking stephan's old wallpaper......i wish him luck.........