It’s all done and he loves it! My mom is making him a rescue vehicle quilt and she got him a firetruck clock for Christmas. It will look super great once it is all put together. Oh, and I got him a print of a dalmatian to hang on the wall above his dresser…now I just need the right kind of nails to hang it with.
(Notice how the firehose spells his name)
Thanks to some inspiration from Candy, we had some craft time today. It was icy and icky outside today, the boys were getting restless and we needed something to do! Luckily, we had everything we needed. We used googly eyes, paper sacks, button stickers, bow stickers and I cut out winter caps, boots and mittens. Liam used a silver gel pen to add details to the hats. The boys had a BLAST and they did a great job. I love how Liam made his into cyclops. Boys!
Liam’s room is finally done…
He knew exactly what he wanted-from the types of dinosaurs, to where they should be placed in the mural, to the little stream running through the middle of it. It turned out great and he loves it!
Colm’s room isn’t done yet, but here’s a sneak peek…
I should have known better. I knew, based on how things were going at home, that the trip to the grocery store was not going to be the best, but we had to go to the grocery store. Really, it wasn’t bad at all; the boys did great. There was one point in the trip, however, where I started to get a little irritated. There was some spilled powdery dishwasher detergent on the floor, so Colm decided to use his hands to spread it all over the floor. So, in my moment of irritation I said something like, “Come on now, Colm, use your head”. As soon as it was out of my mouth, actually I think while it was coming out of my mouth, I knew exactly what he would do. He bent over, with his hiney in the air, and rubbed his head around in it. When he was done he looked like he had the worse case of lice EVER!
Finnegan Michael was born yesterday morning weighing in at a little over six pounds. Mom and baby are doing great. I’ll post a picture soon!
I went to a self-defense class tonight. It was so empowering. We got to simulate kicking the crap out of an attacker. I don’t know if I would remember ANYTHING we were taught tonight in the event of a real attack, but I hope that I would. If you have not taken a class like this I highly recommend it. He taught us how to attack in a way that will throw the attacker off since most of them aren’t expecting someone to fight back. He also taught us when to play along with the attacker and do what they say and when to fight like crazy. Reader’s Digest version: go for the groin and poke out their eyeballs. If they want your purse, jewelry, etc.-give it to them and walk/run away.
Liam really, really, really wants me to write a note to his teacher so that she will use one of her special magnets and put it up on the doorframe. See, if you write her a note saying that someone else is going to pick your child up after school or you are going to be taking one of your child’s classmates home with you after school (for, let’s say, a playdate), she puts it by the door so she has it at the end of the day when they are walking out the door. Liam REALLY wants one of these notes! So, today as we are pulling into the school parking lot he asks me if I have some paper. No, I don’t, I tell him, but I know where this is going. (This is not the first time he has asked about this.) He wants to me to quickly find a piece of paper and write her a note telling her that we are going to pick Carson up after school. I explain to Liam that I would have to call Carson’s mom and make sure that is okay with her before I can write a note. I also explain to him that I probably wouldn’t have to pick Carson up since he lives right behind us and he could probably just walk over after school. By the silence coming from the back of the car I could tell that he realized his plan was foiled, for today….
Another thing I love about Liam’s school is that they don’t get grades on their grade cards until they are in fourth grade. Their grade cards are various continuums with certain skill levels within a discipline on each continuum. The child’s ability level on each continuum is marked. This is a good way to show progress. As the year progresses, the continuum stays the same, but the mark on the continuum should gradually move down the continuum to more advanced skills as the year goes on. If a child gets letter grades that does not tell the parent what their child can/can’t do it just gives them a letter.
Colm can’t get enough Curious George, Clifford or Arthur. If you go to the library and you are looking for one of those books and it’s not there, that’s because it is at our house. He does occassionaly let us read a different book to him. His current fave is Midsummer Knight. I think what he likes about it is that there aren’t any words, so every time we “read” the story to him it is a little bit different. He can also make up his own story to go along with the pics.
