some happenings in the Lance household

I was talking to my mom on the phone today and she informed me that Dan and I had not updated our blogs for a few days and I had not realized the week had gone by already! It has been a busy week getting into the swing of school with Zeke and still trying to unpack and get settled. Zeke has school in the afternoon which is not real condusive to Sofia's naps, but we are working out a schedule. This post will be random happenings this week.
The pictures are of Sofia and her fat lip. Her and Zeke were playing and she got pushed face first on the tile and got a bloody nose and a fat lip, it was sad and Zeke felt so bad because it really was just playing. She is tough and it is cute when she smiles and it is lopsided. And Scarlet settling in to her life of napping and trying to dodge to rain as she does her business outside. It has seriously taken her this whole week to get used to going out in the rain, the first few days she would hold it for hours and hours because she was scared to go outside! She is a spoiled so cal doggy!
It has been raining since we have been here, one week. Yesterday it was cloudy but no rain until evening, it is hard getting the kids out of the car when it is pouring down, no one stays dry. Zeke said to us the other day "why is it just raining and raining and raining here?" I guess he is used to last winter in Riverside where it rained a total of 3 times.
Dan and I met with Zeke's teacher yesterday and she gave us some insight into what they do in class and what we need to work on with him.
She said he does great with his numbers and letters but his writing is really struggling. We have not worked with him in holding his pencil the correct way we just kind of let him do what he wanted and now we have to correct that! He is catching on and doing great, I have been working with him 2 times a day in order to help him catch up to his classmates. He was not required to do anything homework or writing at his other pre-k class so it is an adjustment. He would much rather play with his legos but he gets so excited when he accomplishes his work.
Sofia got another tooth on the top, she still has a crazy swollen gum on top with no tooth yet we keep saying maybe there is just a huge tooth in there and it will pop through and we will have to call her Mater from the Car movie. (he has huge buck teeth if you have not enjoyed that film) She is adjusting well, she is recently attached to me and gets upset when I am not in view. I am hoping this is just a stage because it is hard to get anything done!
Well those are just a few thing going on, we are slowly settling in I still get emotional when I realize my parents don't live down the street anymore or we can't call up Steve & Karen to hang out or when my mom calls and I have to pull it together so I don't cry on the phone. There is always that comfort with a mom where you hear her voice and you get choked up. Maybe that is just me. I will try to update more often. Sorry this is kind of all over the place, just writing down thoughts as they come!