Liam officially knows more Spanish than me. He was saying something to me tonight while he was stretching and I thought I just couldn’t understand him because he was stretching and talking at the same time. Finally he explained to me that he was saying “I am tired.” in Spanish. He then rattled off five or six other phrases. Hmm…too bad they don’t offer French at his school then we could actually have a conversation.
It is raining teeth around here. Liam lost ANOTHER tooth tonight. It has been loose for a while, but he WORKED at this one. I won’t bore you with the gory details, but let’s just say he could have waited a while. He has tooth fairy fever, so he is willing to withstand a little pain to get some shiny coins under his pillow at night.
Liam started soccer today. He has the BEST coach. He is so good with the kids and Liam seems to listen to him. I was so proud of Liam today. The coach told him to defend the goal if he didn’t have the ball and that’s exactly what he did. Liam also got his first pair of soccer shoes. They are silver and he thinks he is HOT STUFF with those shoes on. (I’ll have to add a picture of them later.) They had a great first game and Liam had a lot of fun and it was a beautiful day to be outside playing soccer.
Someone stole all of the doorknobs out of our new house. They weren’t installed yet, so I guess that is good. I don’t know how they did it since the house is always locked. They think it was an inside job a) because the house is locked unless someone is working in there and b) they were in boxes inside the kitchen pantry-not the most obvious place to look for doorknobs.
Colm’s first day of preschool was today and he did GREAT! He walked in and didn’t even look back or give me a kiss or a hug good bye. (He did when I reminded him though.) 🙂 He is such a big boy!
You will never believe what I did this weekend! Where to begin…Okay, we have some things in storage since our house is on the market and and the rent for our storage unit is due the first of every month. On Saturday we drove by the place where our stuff is and I realized we hadn’t paid yet, so Sean turned around and drove back. The place was closed, but they have a little slit in the door where you can drop off payments. So that is what I did. Then I realized that they would be closed Sunday as normal and on Monday for the holiday. I started to freak out a little that our check was just laying there on the floor where anyone could see it through the glass. It has our address, names, etc. on it. What to do? So, later on when the boys where in bed, I went to the grocery store and then I drove back to the place to see if I could somehow throw some paper through the little hole to cover up our check. (This was probably ten o’clock at night.) Oh my! I tried EVERYTHING and every piece of paper I tried missed. I had some Blue Clues coloring sheets, a sheet on how to pray the Rosary, some cardboard from a lightbulb wrapper….you can imagine what their floor looks like now. I am sure they are going to walk in on Tuesday morning and wonder what in the world happened. However, since the place has video surveillance all over all they will have to do is go back through the tapes and watch me looking like a complete dork throwing paper through their door. And if they didn’t get it on tape, there is a bank next door that has video cameras, which probably got it all on tape. I just hope I don’t end up on the evening news. 🙂
Love this show! We watched the first one this morning. It is great because both of the boys can participate at different levels. They did word sorts, word families/rhyming, letter ID, reading, spelling and probably some other things I am forgetting. They also used a familiar story to help solve a problem that kids can relate to. The boys like the website, too. There are definitely some elements borrowed from other children’s programs though. I hope the rest of the shows are as engaging and as educational as this one. Liam is also anxiously waiting for the premiere of Wordgirl. We’ve got the DVR all set up so we won’t miss it.
Both of the boys have had their first lesson with our new violin teacher. She does things a little differently and wasn’t shy about telling me that she thought her way was better and why she thought it was better. She has thirty steps she takes the kids through. I think she is going to start Colm back at the very beginning which is fine. I am not sure what she is going to do with Liam. I talked to Liam about how it might be kind of hard at first to do things differently, but that his teacher knows and I know that he is used to doing things a certain way and we will all just have to be patient with one another. I just don’t want him to get discouraged. We also went to one of the group lessons and these kids play much more quickly than he is used to. I don’t know if he is going to be playing with the older kids all the time, but I hope not. I was so proud of him for trying to keep up with them, but he wasn’t doing well and he isn’t going to learn if he is just trying to keep up…which he wasn’t…not even close. I did explain to him how they were able to play so quickly, so we have been working on that. He just isn’t there yet and that is okay. He’s five. His teacher also has a different way of practicing at home which has been a nice change of pace. After practicing the same way for
2 1/2 years, it is nice to do something a little different. I hope this teacher works out. There aren’t a lot of good ones out there. Our first one was great, but just wasn’t working out. Time will tell.
At the age of four Liam did not know what a gun was. Since the discovery of Star Wars that has definitely changed. All of the little Star Wars figures come with some sort of teeny tiny little weapon whether it be a light saber, gun or laser thingy. The boys don’t walk around acting like they’re randomly shooting people (usually), but if they (especially Colm) hear somebody make a sound that even remotely sounds like what their gunshooting sound sounds like…it’s all over. Perfect example. The other night the boys and I were standing outside preschool talking to two other moms and their boys. One of the boys made a gun sound and they all started in. What is that? Is it genetic?
Tonight we were eating dinner and I was explaining to Liam that the reason he was eating different fishsticks than normal was because of sustainable fishing practices and that the fishsticks he used to eat did not meet the guidelines for sustainable fishing. He thought about it for a bit and asked if farmers could use a gun to shoot the fish they want to eat so that they don’t hurt any of the other fish. He thought about it a little bit longer and decided that wouldn’t work…it would only make a big explosion in the water.
When I send Liam to kindergarten each morning he is flesh-colored. When I pick him up each day he is black and gray. Seriously! His toes and feet are filthy! His wrists and forearms are disgusting! How is he getting this way? Recess. He, Solomon and Jacob spend both of their recesses making volcanoes out of the playground mulch. I can just see them digging on their hands and knees up to their elbows in mulch. (Their playground mulch is the bouncy kind that is like shredded black rubber.) I can tell they wash their hands, because that is the only part of him that is not dingy. You should see his bath water!
Oh well, at least he is making friends and having a good time.