Teamwork! The boys worked together this evening to get the cars washed. (They had a little help from their dad.)
Archive for July 2007
This is a quick read that any mom can relate to. There are chapters about oozing poop (Janelle, I thought of you), binkies, family pets, kids humiliating their parents in public, and the list goes on. The funny part is that she is able to relate all of these parenting matters to topics such as Mother Teresa, Solomon and the Prodigal son.
I am so excited about these. These will be perfect to pack in Liam’s lunches and Colm will drink it just because it looks like it is in a juice box. They aren’t easy to find, but there is a card on the website that you can take to your grocer to tell them you want them and if that doesn’t work, there is a link on the website that will take you to a company that delivers hard to find goods right to your door.
We got this game a couple of weeks ago for the boys. I really got it for Colm, but Liam likes it, too. It is so funny because the boys play it totally differently. Liam plays to win. He has figured out which pieces he needs to win and he gets upset with you if you get to them before he does. Colm plays to make a funny outfit. He likes to mix up the clown top, with the cowboy hat, with the nurse head, etc. How the game works: You roll the die. The die tells you which piece you get to pick up whether that be a shirt, a hat, shoes, etc. Each person has a turn until everyone has a complete person. Then you measure the people you created. The person with the tallest character wins. It has inches on one side and cm on the other, so it is fun to measure them both ways.
We went to Powell Gardens today to see their dinosaur exhibit. It was a beautiful day and the boys loved the dinos. They also have a nice little cafe to eat in that has great food for kids and adults.
Digging for dinosaur bones
This is a non-fiction book written by a mother and daughter about the daughter’s trip into a life of drugs and all of the garbage that comes with it and her mom and dad’s role in getting her there. The journey they all take out of that deep dark place is what makes it interesting.
When Liam first started Suzuki I saw all these other kids playing away and I thought it would take Liam forever to learn to play like that. There are several songs I like in Book One and one of them is called Perpetual Motion. When I first saw the other kids play it I was blown away. It is such a neat song and a fun song to play. You can really tell the kids enjoy playing it. Well, he has arrived. He can play it and I am so proud of him. I honestly thought he would be ten before he would be able to play like that. They just learn so quickly when they are this age. At first it doesn’t seem like they are learning much of anything, but one day it all comes together and you realize they were listening, they were learning and it was worth it.
My in-laws are having some work done to their yard that requires a bulldozer type of machine. They are having some boulders put in their backyard to keep their lawn from washing away into the lake that is in their backyard. Now, when they told me someone had called the police on them because the bulldozer was making too much noise I thought that was absolutely ridiculous. Then the boys and I went over there today to see all of the excitement and I totally understand why someone called the police. Man, it was LOUD! He wasn’t just moving the rocks. First he has to scrape them so they are flat and will stack nicely. He scrapes each one for a good ten to fifteen minutes. Then he picks it up with his machine and takes it over the lake, plops it into the lake on top of the rocks that are already there and POUNDS, POUNDS, POUNDS it into place. A lot of the people who live near my in-laws are retired and are home ALL day. They have been listening to this for two days and probably have about three more days of it to put up with. And it’s not the sound that is so bad, it is the sounds echoing off of all the houses and carrying across the lake that is bad. If I had heard all of that ruckus and didn’t know what was happening, I might have called the police, too.
Liam has graduated to Level Two in swimming. Praise GOD! I thought it would never happen, but it has and he is enjoying it. THAT is a miracle, folks!
Today we found out that Colm’s teacher for next year will be Mrs. Doolittle. That is EXACTLY who I wanted him to have. She will be his teacher throughout his Montessori education. Yippee!