hodge podge

lots going on we met with our realtor on sunday to talk about getting the house on the market soon. she came back today with comps and a price suggestion. sadly it's not great, but it's on the high side of what we expected so we're ok with it. based on the experience with the last house, we'd rather start lower and sell earlier than languish on the market for more than a year and end up selling low anyway. so the plan is to be on the market by march 1st. we have a few projects to finish up - bathrooms mainly and then a bunch of decluttering and packing to do. there is a shiny POD in our yard just waiting to be packed. it will be fun to trudge through snow to do so. quentin is a disaster these days. he is definitely in that "pushing his boundaries" stage. he gets a big kick out of ignoring us when we say no to something, like throwing his dinner at his sister or similar. and time-outs don't seem to have any impact - he thinks they are funny. his speech is also improving and he's getting more conversational. there may be hope for him yet! we had an interesting (only to me probably) conversation about one of the other kids at daycare. quentin was very concerned that baby charlie was not coming home with us but then he decided it was ok and said, "baby charry go with charry momma home." i think he really digs daycare because every morning when i get him up he asks to see linda. then he asks me if he will see the kids at daycare, "mikey? wyan? breddan? charry? bay-ee?" he's not usually happy when i tell him he's stuck with me for the day. his counting is also improving. he still refuses to acknowledge the existence of the numbers 3 and 4 but i have heard him get as high as twelve otherwise. he likes to count his body parts - "one nose. one, two ears. one, two eyes." (set the bar low, kid!) and his brand loyalty continues to expand... coming home from daycare on tuesday he was pleading for me to stop at "gurgit" (target) because he wanted cookies. normally he says, "no want this" when we pull into a target or other shopping center.