Jan. 3, 2007
update
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Well, we made it through christmas and it was great! It's so fun to have children around at christmas time!!! We now have more toys in our house than the kids know what to do with and it's a battle to get them all cleaned up by the end of the day so we have established (starting today) two clean up times, before/after lunch and before bedtime. That should keep things managable. Toby is still learning the clean up game and Jules gets overwelmed quickly (she's alot like her mama) so it helps to have as little toys as possible to clean up. Anyway.. we started back to school yesterday too. We got some new books to do (the preschool series of the Rod and Staff curriculum) just before christmas so we started those yesterday too. They are much too easy for her but she likes them and I think it gives her good practice. It will be good for Toby when he starts doing formal stuff the fall after he turns three (depending on his personality of course but I'm thinking as of now, he will be ready) We did school just before lunch today and toby was driving me nuts! He usually is pretty good when we do school but today he just wanted to bug me I guess. First he kept wanting to color in Julianna's books. He is so eager to do school work LOL I give him his own coloring book to do but he wants nothing to do with it. Then he takes a crayon and starts coloring one of the little people horses. He has never colored on anything but paper before so it was shocking to me! :frown: He kept trying to count the mice on Julianna's math book too which is great only, he was putting his hands all over the page and Jules couldn't do anything. I know that he's learning lots when he watches us but sometimes he wants to get too involved! I think he will be ready to start doing little things by next fall.. I'll have to find little activities for him to do while we do school. He did do a pretty cute thing though. I usually use the eraser end of a pencil to point at things I need to show Jules so he takes a pencil and turns it to the eraser end and he kept pointing at things on the page and saying "there and there and there and there" LOL anyway, there's an update from me!! |
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