If you or someone you know is looking for a treadmill, let me know. It is a high quality treadmill in great condition and has only been used a handful of times. We’ll take the best offer we get and the new owners need to pick it up.
Great form, Mr. Robert! 🙂
Today was Show Day where the kids get to show off all they’ve learned. Colm did a great job with his bar “routine”. He is a lot stronger than I thought. The balance beam proved to be a little trickier. Colm loves his medal! He can’t wait to show it to Liam when Liam gets home from school.
We have the best library! They have great storytimes and about three times a year they have drop-in activity times. They are centered around a theme and are perfect for three and four-year olds. There are multiple activities based on the theme; some they can do on their own and others require a little help. This one was called All About Me. Colm had a great time and he would have liked to have stayed longer, but we had to leave…the librarians had to go eat lunch.
Who takes their young children to see a play about a wicked witch who throws small children into an oven? The answer: I do. I was thinking this, as we were watching Hansel and Gretel a couple of weeks ago. We had read the book, so the boys knew the storyline and didn’t seem troubled. When we went to see the play, however, Colm was a bit disturbed…since we had read the book, he knew what was coming and buried his head in my shoulder anticipating the arrival of the witch. Now, the pamphlet had said that the story had been adapted for small children so I trusted that the whole “children burning” thing would be kept to a minimum as would the wickedness of the witch. Colm and I were both pleasantly surprised. Not only was the witch not too scary, they had actually made her look kind of pretty. She even did a little upbeat song and dance. That said, when the play was over and the children can meet and speak with the actors on the way out, Colm made a very concerted effort to avoid the witch…even a pretty, singing, dancing witch is still a witch.
Liam has not been this sick in a VERY long time. He has that glassy look in his eyes that kids get when they are super sick. He has a temp of 103, he is hot and then he is cold, sweating and then shivering. His lymph nodes are swollen and his inner ears are red. He is coughing and is SO congested. He has spent the better part of the past two days sleeping on the couch. We had to change his pajamas last night because they were soaked with sweat. The dr. gave him some antibiotics and I am giving him some OTC meds as well. Not to mention that he has his regular regimen of asthma meds he has to take every day and then the extra asthma meds he has to take when he has congestion. He is being SUCH a trooper. The antibiotic he is taking is so nasty I didn’t even try to pretend that it was good. He has already gagged on it once. It’s gross. I remember that stuff from when I was a kid…ugh! The OTC medicine isn’t much better even though they say it tastes like bubble gum.
Sean isn’t much better either. He went to the dr today and got his own set of meds to help him get over his junk. He sounds terrible when he coughs and he can’t talk.
Please, dear Lord, keep Colm and I away from all of this. PLEASE!
Colm decided to “help” me make brownies yesterday by spilling some of the chocolate chips all over the floor. This a pic of Colm and our dog scavenging them off the floor. Now, I know Colm shouldn’t be eating off the floor and the dog shouldn’t be eating chocolate, but I had to take this picture. It was like they were competing, it was a race, to see who could eat the most chocolate.
This is such a good movie. Sean and I watched it tonight after we put the kids to bed. Sean and I have watched quite a few movies lately and this was, by far, the best. HIGHLY recommended.
There are many different types of learning. Garner recognized seven different types of intelligences: spacial, linguistic, interpersonal, intrapersonal, musical, spacial, mathematical-logical and kinesthetic. You probably know what type(s) you and your children are. I started thinking about this yesterday when I was working with Colm doing his It’s A Match game. This was only the second time he had worked with it so I was kind of sitting with him walking him through how to do it when I realized that he was doing it perfectly right, but not at all the way I would do it. He had tackled the problem in an entirely different way that I would have. We want back and forth for a while until I realized what was happening. I was trying to help him when I realized I wasn’t helping him at all, but was keeping him from doing it his own way. By the way, if you have a two-three year old, you need to get one of these toys. They are great for teaching problem solving skills and Colm loves it because it is self-checking. He pulls down on the tray when he is done and if the colors match up then he knows he has done it right.
I know of two people who have had their credit card numbers stolen from the same local restaurant in the past year. If I know two people who this has happened to, then you know there are more AND when they were trying to figure out what happened one of the first things the bank asked them was if they had eaten at this restaurant. That tells you right there that there has been a pattern. One particular person had used their debit card to pay and their entire checking account was cleared out to the tune of about $3,000. Yikes! I am not going to mention the name of the restaurant here so I can’t be sued for slander or libel or whichever one it is, but if you e-mail me I will tell you which one it is.