Charles woke up a little early this morning, rousting Mom and Dad out of bed. After we were all up Charles and I went in to wake up big brother. Corwin was quite resistant to conciousness so I resorted to poking and tickling to try and get him to get up until Charles decided to protect his brother by grabbing Daddy’s arms to stop him from torturing Corwin. Fortunately, the threat of a 7 pm bedtime was successful in getting Corwin moving. Later Charles spent some time drawing on paper at the table, after which he held it up and said “aye daw!”, which I choose to interpret as “I draw!”. After I sent Corwin out into the cold to wait for the bus, Charles (who had been clutchy all morning) got upset and apparently wanted to go outside to be with Corwin. At that point I managed to convince him to get dressed before going out. By the time I had Charles packed up and ready to go, Corwin’s bus still hadn’t arrived, so I took him and Jacob to school. Of course, as I pulled out on the main road we saw the bus go by headed the other way. At least the boys weren’t officially late, since they made it to school before the bus did.