So today was an awesome day! I had a fabulous morning with the kids. We just had a laid back morning playing and cleaning. I was waiting on a phone call from a friend telling me that they now knew that it was a bouncing boy or a sweet baby girl in her ever growing tummy. The kids were very excited about this phone call to but more than find out about the baby they were just excited because it meant they got to go out with one of their favorite people after the phone call. So she called (well texted cause she was at the doctors office and she had to let a lot of people know!) and so off we went to Target.
We got there early so we killed time on the toy aisle which is always fun and with the Bug's birthday next month I enjoyed watching which toys she was enjoying the most. It really amazes me how many toys from when I was little have come back now but with a "new" look. Rainbow Bright has even come back and of course my all time favorite My Little Pony! Bug is a big fan of all of them honestly I don't think she has a favorite. Caden LOVES the dinosaurs and cars that they now have and OH MY GOODNESS they have come out with dinosaur cars! He was about to have a heart attack. It was so funny LOL Anyway they were really good and only asked if they could have things a couple times and didn't even pout when I told them no. : ) My favorite part was when Casey found the display of Twlight figures and picked up the Edward doll and goes "Mommy! It's Daddy!!" I laughed so hard.
My friend found us playing on the toy aisle and then we went in search of boy baby things which was a whole lotta fun! I am so excited about this baby it isn't even funny. The kids absolutely had a great time and were thrilled they got to go out to Burger King with her too.
So now I am planning a baby shower for a little boy (with her mom and my mom's help) and I am thinking of going with the nautical theme because that is what the baby's room is gonna be done in and my friend loves the beach and the dad loves to sale so I figure that should be perfect and I have now found so many great ideas that I might be a little addicted to the internet baby shower search sites : / I called Heidi and she think on it too and see if she can come up with any ideas and I have a pretty good idea for invitations already that I can make...
If anyone has any ideas for surf/beach/sailboat theme baby shower stuff please pass them my way I have 2 months to put it together so really 1 month before invites need to go out YIKES
Friday, August 27, 2010
Wednesday, August 25, 2010
Just one of those days
Today was just one of those days...
I should have known right way that something was gonna be off when my adorably sunny little Bug that usually gets out of bed every morning with a huge smile and a "Good morning Mommy!! Where is Daddy??" the instant she sees me, greeted me this morning with no smile and just a "is it morning yet?" When Joe said "Good morning Casey!" she just looked at him. Yep that was the mood we had today. Caden was in a good mood he just plain didn't want to listen. He was in his "I am 4 and I can correct my sister and do big kid things without asking first" mood. Gotta love that. My grandparents came over for a bit and Caden pretended to be a cat and then Casey decided it would be fun to sit on him or squish him the whole time so that was great fun. My papa and honey are great though so they don't mind at all they thought they were funny. Oh and then later while I cleaned the litter box the kids decided they would take the trash out and truly did take it out! ALL THE WAY OUT!!! Locked themselves outside Thankfully I was listening to them talking in the other room so when it went quiet I knew to go instantly so I got to the garage right as Caden shut the door but still what if I hadn't been??
We have started the Letter of The Week with Caden and of course Casey because even though she is still only 2 she is in the house and wants to be included in the schooling process. I knew Caden was going to love it but I really though Casey wasn't. She usually fights me on all the learning things I do with her but AMAZINGLY she is actually loving everything as much as Caden and doing super with it. We of course are only on the letter A and only on day 3 so it's still new and they love new things but I am enjoying it too.
Part of the school day is a bible story that has the letter of the week in it. This week is Adam and Eve. We read the story on Monday. Tuesday they re-read the story while they colored a picture of Adam and Eve in the garden. Today though was super fun. We acted out the whole thing! Caden got to be Adam, Casey was Eve and I got to be God, the snake and the angel with the fire sword that is placed at the gate. The kids loved it!!!! Casey only had one minor problem...she flat out REFUSED to "eat" the "bad fruit" when it came to that part. It was actually hilarious. Her eyes got all big and I said "Casey this is when Eve ate the fruit remember" and she started to back away from the block (which is what we were pretending was the fruit) and shaking her head. I kept asking her to take it, actually probably much like the serpant from the garden, and she kept getting more and more insistant that she couldn't do it. Finally I just asked "Casey Bug why won't you just pretend to eat the fruit?" and she says "Mommy! God says not too!!!" LOL I ended up putting the block in her hand and telling her we would just pretend she ate it and then moved on to Caden's part because he was getting rather impatient at this point and he ate the "fruit" with no problem.
So in all at the end of day 3 of our first year of homeschooling Caden now can now tell you that an antelope can be found in Africa, Asia and North America and what it eats, what and Albotross is, recognize the word apple, alligator, and animal (pretty much he surprised me with that by the way we were reading and he pointed those out to me in the book! we had been doing site word flash cards earlier so I guess they work) and what sound an A says.
Casey...knows that and A says aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa and what and A looks like LOL she also can give you the facts on the animals we studied too if she feels like it but she probably won't feel like it so I wouldn't bother asking her if I were you. Oh and she knows Eve ate the "bad fruit" but that God still loved her anyway
It was a long day I am tired pray for me with the schooling that it keeps going good. I am doing it this year for preschool just more for fun than for anything else. Next year is when we will actually start for real and I will have to register with the state and everything and make sure everything gets documented. I am documenting everything now for fun because I am weird like that and because I want to make sure when I do need to do it for real I won't panic at all because I will already know how to do it.
I should have known right way that something was gonna be off when my adorably sunny little Bug that usually gets out of bed every morning with a huge smile and a "Good morning Mommy!! Where is Daddy??" the instant she sees me, greeted me this morning with no smile and just a "is it morning yet?" When Joe said "Good morning Casey!" she just looked at him. Yep that was the mood we had today. Caden was in a good mood he just plain didn't want to listen. He was in his "I am 4 and I can correct my sister and do big kid things without asking first" mood. Gotta love that. My grandparents came over for a bit and Caden pretended to be a cat and then Casey decided it would be fun to sit on him or squish him the whole time so that was great fun. My papa and honey are great though so they don't mind at all they thought they were funny. Oh and then later while I cleaned the litter box the kids decided they would take the trash out and truly did take it out! ALL THE WAY OUT!!! Locked themselves outside Thankfully I was listening to them talking in the other room so when it went quiet I knew to go instantly so I got to the garage right as Caden shut the door but still what if I hadn't been??
We have started the Letter of The Week with Caden and of course Casey because even though she is still only 2 she is in the house and wants to be included in the schooling process. I knew Caden was going to love it but I really though Casey wasn't. She usually fights me on all the learning things I do with her but AMAZINGLY she is actually loving everything as much as Caden and doing super with it. We of course are only on the letter A and only on day 3 so it's still new and they love new things but I am enjoying it too.
Part of the school day is a bible story that has the letter of the week in it. This week is Adam and Eve. We read the story on Monday. Tuesday they re-read the story while they colored a picture of Adam and Eve in the garden. Today though was super fun. We acted out the whole thing! Caden got to be Adam, Casey was Eve and I got to be God, the snake and the angel with the fire sword that is placed at the gate. The kids loved it!!!! Casey only had one minor problem...she flat out REFUSED to "eat" the "bad fruit" when it came to that part. It was actually hilarious. Her eyes got all big and I said "Casey this is when Eve ate the fruit remember" and she started to back away from the block (which is what we were pretending was the fruit) and shaking her head. I kept asking her to take it, actually probably much like the serpant from the garden, and she kept getting more and more insistant that she couldn't do it. Finally I just asked "Casey Bug why won't you just pretend to eat the fruit?" and she says "Mommy! God says not too!!!" LOL I ended up putting the block in her hand and telling her we would just pretend she ate it and then moved on to Caden's part because he was getting rather impatient at this point and he ate the "fruit" with no problem.
So in all at the end of day 3 of our first year of homeschooling Caden now can now tell you that an antelope can be found in Africa, Asia and North America and what it eats, what and Albotross is, recognize the word apple, alligator, and animal (pretty much he surprised me with that by the way we were reading and he pointed those out to me in the book! we had been doing site word flash cards earlier so I guess they work) and what sound an A says.
Casey...knows that and A says aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa and what and A looks like LOL she also can give you the facts on the animals we studied too if she feels like it but she probably won't feel like it so I wouldn't bother asking her if I were you. Oh and she knows Eve ate the "bad fruit" but that God still loved her anyway
It was a long day I am tired pray for me with the schooling that it keeps going good. I am doing it this year for preschool just more for fun than for anything else. Next year is when we will actually start for real and I will have to register with the state and everything and make sure everything gets documented. I am documenting everything now for fun because I am weird like that and because I want to make sure when I do need to do it for real I won't panic at all because I will already know how to do it.
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