It’s been an eternity since we posted any pictures that were less than eleven months old, so we spent a few minutes this weekend scanning this year’s class pictures and created separate albums for Julia and Joseph. The plan is to keep these albums up-to-date as the kids move through the school system, or at least until our freebie scanner kicks the bucket.

Now, the scary news. We got a bit of a surprise in the sign-in book at Joe’s daycare this week: written notice informing us that he’s going to start visiting the preschool this Monday and will be moving up for good on November 17. Obviously, this is a good thing: Joe’s been the oldest kid in the infant center for a month or two now, and a lot of his friends have already moved up. Developmentally, he’s more than ready (though it’d be nice if he showed a little more interest in using the toilet). Still, it’s a bit of a bittersweet change for us: after four-plus years, it will be very strange not to have anyone to drop off at the baby school, as Julia calls it.