I caught this very sweet moment on video this morning. Asher is so good with the kitties and they are so good with him - especially Ole. If you listen closely at the end, you can hear Asher say "such a good little kitty." I love that he's able to have this relationship with them.
Thursday, February 17, 2011
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
100th Day of School
Today was Josiah's 100th day of school, and he was pretty excited about it since he is so into numbers. Since I'm into being the world's laziest mother, I didn't remember about this momentous day until last night. The note sent home last week asked us to send a baggie full of something edible from a list (Josiah specifically requested choc. chips) and the part that I failed to notice when I read the note originally... 100 objects collected and presented in a creative way. Yikes! Last night I quickly brainstormed and asked Jo if he wanted to bring 100 marbles or 100 pom-poms. He replied pom-poms, and I debated about how to display them, and then promptly forgot about it until this morning 15 minutes before the bus arrived.
Len helpfully suggested that I string them together, which I agreed was cool, but how could I do that in 15 minutes, plus pack all of his normal school paraphernalia? The answer... not possible. I strung pom-poms as fast as I could, and Len dressed Josiah as fast as an easily distracted 6 year old can dress, but I still failed to get his 100 items "artfully collected," not to mention the rest of his daily bag attended to. After some yelling and serious stress over a not so serious situation, we got Josiah on the bus WITHOUT any of his needed items. With much assistance from my happy-to-help assistant, we finished getting his special 100 objects displayed and the rest of his bag packed. I took an extra trip into town, which of course is really no big deal.
Hmmmm.... serve one for Kindergarten, 0 for mom.
Len helpfully suggested that I string them together, which I agreed was cool, but how could I do that in 15 minutes, plus pack all of his normal school paraphernalia? The answer... not possible. I strung pom-poms as fast as I could, and Len dressed Josiah as fast as an easily distracted 6 year old can dress, but I still failed to get his 100 items "artfully collected," not to mention the rest of his daily bag attended to. After some yelling and serious stress over a not so serious situation, we got Josiah on the bus WITHOUT any of his needed items. With much assistance from my happy-to-help assistant, we finished getting his special 100 objects displayed and the rest of his bag packed. I took an extra trip into town, which of course is really no big deal.
Hmmmm.... serve one for Kindergarten, 0 for mom.
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
Heat Wave
We've had a heat wave here for the last 3 days. Yesterday I was even able to take Asher out on the driveway to ride around on his toys. He figured out he was strong enough to ride his combine now and he was pretty thrilled. He used the header to make marks in the snow.
Monday, February 14, 2011
Valentine's Day
Len and I went out for Valentine's Day last Friday since he would be at the cabin today. So I tried to make today extra fun for the kids. Sara helped me work with the boys to do their Valentines for school friends yesterday so that was ready to go. Asher has learned to write an A so he put one on each of his cards. Josiah did all of his classmates (24, plus teachers) and didn't even complain. He's gotten so much more interested in writing which makes these tasks so much easier. It has been impossible in the past.
This morning I made heart shaped pancakes, which they were less than impressed with. Daddy makes them mini pancakes and they think those are way cooler. They just wanted the hearts cut up anyway.
I spent many hours making cut out sugar cookies for the boys. These are Len's favorites and the kids like them too. I don't know if it was an extra huge recipe, but for some reason it took me forever to make and decorate these. Asher "helped" some too so that took extra time.
Before Josiah got home on the bus I laid out their valentines - from Grammy, chocolates, cards and I gave Josiah his ball left from Christmas. From me, the cookies and a v-reader. Both the ball and the v-reader were excellent choices for them right now. They are "riding" the ball to and from everywhere. They kind of roll forward on it and then flop over it. They think it is so hilarious, but it's really great upper body work for Josiah.
They are fighting over the v-reader, which is like a kid Kindle. We've started the therapeutic listening with Josiah and he's not supposed to do anything with electronic sounds during the sessions. Of course Asher wanted to do the reader during a session tonight and Josiah just couldn't stay away. We turned of the music, but it still had other sounds. I hope that was okay.
When we got in from the bus the boys got to have a cookie, but then I got an email from school showing pictures of these enormous brownies they gave the kids. I asked Josiah what he had for lunch and he said popscicles and heart candy. I know there was more to it than that (please please please), but tonight he was SO wired. He was screaming constantly and he was so hyper. You could just tell in his body that he was so tense and wound. I never thought that candy high was a real thing before, but it sure was today.
For supper I cut out quesadillas into heart shapes and served supper on red plates... no dessert!!
Cookie Extravaganza:
This morning I made heart shaped pancakes, which they were less than impressed with. Daddy makes them mini pancakes and they think those are way cooler. They just wanted the hearts cut up anyway.
I spent many hours making cut out sugar cookies for the boys. These are Len's favorites and the kids like them too. I don't know if it was an extra huge recipe, but for some reason it took me forever to make and decorate these. Asher "helped" some too so that took extra time.
Before Josiah got home on the bus I laid out their valentines - from Grammy, chocolates, cards and I gave Josiah his ball left from Christmas. From me, the cookies and a v-reader. Both the ball and the v-reader were excellent choices for them right now. They are "riding" the ball to and from everywhere. They kind of roll forward on it and then flop over it. They think it is so hilarious, but it's really great upper body work for Josiah.
They are fighting over the v-reader, which is like a kid Kindle. We've started the therapeutic listening with Josiah and he's not supposed to do anything with electronic sounds during the sessions. Of course Asher wanted to do the reader during a session tonight and Josiah just couldn't stay away. We turned of the music, but it still had other sounds. I hope that was okay.
When we got in from the bus the boys got to have a cookie, but then I got an email from school showing pictures of these enormous brownies they gave the kids. I asked Josiah what he had for lunch and he said popscicles and heart candy. I know there was more to it than that (please please please), but tonight he was SO wired. He was screaming constantly and he was so hyper. You could just tell in his body that he was so tense and wound. I never thought that candy high was a real thing before, but it sure was today.
For supper I cut out quesadillas into heart shapes and served supper on red plates... no dessert!!
Cookie Extravaganza:
OMG... I'm blogging!!
I haven't blogged in so long, but finally have some fun stuff to post. I've had such trouble with winter blues this year, so I'm starting to find some projects that make me happy.
I remembered this old stool that was here in the parsonage basement when we moved in. The back was broken off of it and they had used some miscellaneous hardware over the years to repair various joints. It was also used at a paint chair so it had some splatters. Since one of my favorite blogs is: http://betterafter.blogspot.com/, I was inspired to resurrect this old stool. I already had spray paint in the basement and had to buy $1.48 worth of hardware and the fabric was a remnant under $5. I think it turned out so cute. It doesn't match anything in the house, but maybe someday it will match something in the cabin.
This was my first re-upholdering project and it was very satisfying. It is so fun to save something that used to be headed for the dump. I have all kinds of other ideas running through my head now. I'm keeping them to myself so as not to freak out my husband unnecessarily.
I remembered this old stool that was here in the parsonage basement when we moved in. The back was broken off of it and they had used some miscellaneous hardware over the years to repair various joints. It was also used at a paint chair so it had some splatters. Since one of my favorite blogs is: http://betterafter.blogspot.com/, I was inspired to resurrect this old stool. I already had spray paint in the basement and had to buy $1.48 worth of hardware and the fabric was a remnant under $5. I think it turned out so cute. It doesn't match anything in the house, but maybe someday it will match something in the cabin.
This was my first re-upholdering project and it was very satisfying. It is so fun to save something that used to be headed for the dump. I have all kinds of other ideas running through my head now. I'm keeping them to myself so as not to freak out my husband unnecessarily.
Tuesday, June 15, 2010
Children's Museum
Asher was in heaven with this new crane exhibit.
Josiah loved this new vacuum exhibit. You put scarves or balls into tubes (like at the bank drive-thru) and they fly around and eventually pop out.
And of course the boats are a favorite.
Thursday, June 10, 2010
Our little Graduate
When Josiah was around 6 months old we signed him up for a reading program through the local library called "1000 books before Kindergarten." I was supposed to be writing down each book we read to him, but when he became so challenging, this program was the last thing on our mind. It was always in the back of my mind, but I rarely wrote anything down. We knew he was reading plenty of books as he reads himself, but it was still something I felt I had failed on.
We were invited to the graduation for that program so I spent a lot of time writing down all the books that we had in the house and got to 520 when I ran out of space. I decided to just go and hoped they didn't check his book.
When we were walking in I was making conversation with another mother and she was commenting on how on top of things I must be as I had our book with us. HAHAHA! So I just went along with it and said, "I brought it, but we ran out of pages." Then she said, "yeah, we had to get several book." OUCH!!!
They had a cute little program for the kids. The librarian read a couple of books and then they picked out t-shirts and mortar board caps. They played some music and had them walk down the aisle. Then they handed them little diplomas and a stack of books (to which Josiah said loudly, "I have that book at home!")
I'm determined to get Asher's book in line within the next year!!
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