2.Elijah is doing great in school. We had a parent/teacher conference at the beginning of October (or maybe the middle) and he is doing great. And really everything he's needed to work on, we have. So he's doing even better. He is starting to read on his own. He is starting to recognize words and sound things out. The following is a picture he drew of Rapunzel and the story he wrote on the back. The translation will follow:
"daytime Rapunzel in her castle, mommy, rainbow. big castle shining bright. rapunzel has long hair."
He was very proud of himself and gave this pic to his best bud A.
3. Grace is doing well also. Though, I'm not exactly sure how well. She seems to like preschool well enough and loves her teachers. But she sometimes comes home and tells me that she was mean. Who knows. She has a flair for the dramatic and gets unseeable-to-the-human-eye booboos. She has asked for Bandaids for Christmas. hehehe. She is starting to make recognizable pictures. She loves to draw suns and people. She still makes up songs. She LOVES to dance and takes it VERY seriously (as should you!) She will entertain herself and whispers to herself and her animals fabulous stories. She is very bossy and becomes annoyingly mad if things don't go her way. She loves to slam doors and make a scene. Honestly can say, I'm not looking forward to the teenage years with this one. She does love to do things for others and will reward you with a beautiful smile if you give her a minute. heh. I will post a video as a separate post since apparently Blogger is stupid.
4. We have started a reward system. I felt like the kids were watching to much TV, and admittedly, I was using the TV too much. SO now the kids can earn TV time. They have a chart with different things on it. "Staying in bed all night." "Finishing homework." "Not whining on the way to school." "Cleaning up your toys." Stuff like that. They earn a start for each thing they do daily. At 5 stars they can have one TV show or 15 minutes of computer games. At 10 stars they can have on 2 TV shows or 30 minutes of computer games. At 20 stars they get a special one on one date with mom or dad. The stars are not cumulative. Once they are used, they are gone. Elijah uses his almost immediately. Grace however has been banking hers for two weeks and earned a date. She wants to see a movie at the big movie place with me. This has been hard for her. She LOVES TV. I have given her the option every day when she asks for TV. Having said all this. Last weekend I gave in. Elijah was sick and I was up almost all night with him. So yeah, the TV was on a LOT. But frankly, I was okay with that. We did watch a special Charlie Brown last week, but other than that the TV was on during the week for less than 15 minutes. It's good for them and good for me. They are finding other ways to entertain themselves and that's a GREAT thing.
5. Today is Elijah's last soccer game. It's supposed to be windy and cold. Ugh. But there is an awards ceremony afterwards. I think all the kids get trophies. I haven't told Elijah about this. I think his head my explode.
6. Jerry is in class today. He has a major presentation on Tuesday and then things will settle down a little bit... at least with his group.
7. Next weekend my parents booked us a condo in Myrtle Beach. It will be nice to get away for a little while. I think we may splurge and take the kids to the Ripley Aquarium. We'll see.
8. I still love Zumba and may be able to start going more now that soccer is over. Elijah decided he didn't want to play basketball, so we will have an afternoon free. I was thinking of taking the kids swimming and then go do Zumba, but we'll see. That may be too much. I definitely want to keep them active and the pool seems a god way to not only do that, but allow them to continue practicing their swimming skills. Elijah has expressed interest in doing a kids triathlon next summer. He has the biking and the running down, he just needs to learn to breathe while swimming.
9. We are hitting the mountains for Thanksgiving. We aren't doing the actual dinner until Saturday, so I"m hoping to have a little date time with Jerry. We did go out last night to see Shakespeare on Trial. I haven't laughed so hard in a long time. It was WELL done, superbly acted, and rather educational! If you hear of it coming to a threatre near you... RUN to it!
10. There is always more to write, but I guess I should pay attention to my children a little this morning. It's getting to be that time to get dressed, get in the car, pick up lunch, play a soccer game... and hopefully get the kiddos to a rest a little this afternoon. yawn.
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