Aug. 28, 2006

Loose Ends

I just read thru my entire blog and realized there are some loose ends I needed to update on - if, for no other reason than to keep my OWN train of thought on track! The SMART bus line should be ashamed of itself, for one thing.  Remember that play date?  It never happened because the bus never showed up.  We waited over an hour for a bus that was supposed to circulate every 45 mins.  To top it off, the only bus we DID see, passed us by, driver waving at us.  WAVING.  I'm not kidding.  Kept on driving.  I started writing a letter to SMART bus, but realized there was no point really.  What are they going to do?  Send me an apology?  Send me coupons for free bus service?  Sorry, but I don't think now I'd ride them for free anyhow!  They can take their services (if you can call it that when they don't actually seem to offer any) and keep 'em.  It'll save me a dollar fifty at any rate.  We decided to walk anything under five miles one way.  Let us get some exercize, and keep our money in our pockets where it'll do US some good! My brother's moving in a few more weeks.  He'll be in FL, while I'm here in MI.  It'll be hard to deal with.  Daughter's really upset by it, and has regressed a bit with the potty training stuff.  I HOPE that's the connection at any rate!  It's hard to still have potty accidents with a 5 yr old.  I thought we were done with accidents to be honest.  This particular uncle is her FAVORITE uncle.  She used to watch him eat.  It was her favorite thing to do when she was an infant, toddler and even still as a little kid.  Nothing special in the way he eats, but she just loves to watch him eat!  He plays with her, goofs off with her, and generally regresses to being 5 when the two of them are together.  It's endearing to watch and I'll most likely be a crier once he's gone.  I've never been that good at goodbyes. Dinosaur unit stalled out for today anyhow.  We took a break from that at her request and worked the basics for a while.  I took some time to explain why her name only starts with a capital letter, and no other letters are capitalized.  Well, I TRIED to explain it.  We read a lot, and I asked her if she remembers seeing other names looking like that, with a mix of letters, and she seemed to understand. ... at least I HOPE she did... What's making me proud lately is that she's gradually moving from the "pre reading level pre-k" books to the "reading level k" books.  She's learning by hearing it once or twice, taking clues from the first and last letters of the word, the picture cues, and the story line (If barbie and biscuit books at that level can be said to HAVE a story line...) and she's reading books to ME! OH! We finished a chapter book! (Where I read, she does the paying attention) We read Whimsy the Talking Pony by Sandy Duval.  She actually clapped at the ending!  It was so precious!  Of course, it was about a talking pony, so we had her attention from the get-go.  Our next attempt is Charlotte's Web - since the movie's coming out soon.  We'd like to finish the book before seeing the movie.  Same with the new How to Eat Fried Worms - I just don't think we'd be able to motivate her into that one at five, you know?  That one seems more like second grade 7-8 yr old stuff, but who knows what she'd like.  It might just be gross enough for her to enjoy. She still enjoys dislocating her shoulder and other joints just to watch me squirm and tell her not to do it.  I admit - the freaking out alone is what's motivating her to continue, but if you saw it, it's practically impossible to NOT freak out when you see that shoulder pop out and all that! Okay, today I took over the TV for most of the day for an ABC Family Marathon of Kyle XY.  I admit, I took a day off cleaning and all that in order to have one guilty pleasure type day.  We're all allowed one of those once in a while, right? ... Right!?!  Too late now, muhuahua!  I already took one!  Thankfully, for most of my guilty day, daughter played outside, played with her toys upstairs, and we threw in a board game and a card game - I'm not a total child abandoner! The hybridized bees are still hanging around. According to my research, bees hybridize more on their own than scientists gave them credit for.  And I've come to peace with the whole wasp incident.  I read on more than one website that an initial allergic reaction to wasp venom gradually will decrease in time, as opposed to an actual bee allergy which can build, causing an increase in reaction over time, eventually becoming fatal. RANDOM THOUGHT:  When I was in the library, I noticed a TON of books in the children's section regarding "back to school" or "first day of school" and tells children what to expect on their first days.  Curiously enough, there's NOTHING out there that deals with homeschoolers and their first days 'back to school' or anything.  OR how to deal with the mainstreamers questions like this one: "Oh, you're 5?  Are you going to start Kindergarden this year?"  I wonder how an author would market such stories.....

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