Who stole the cookie from the cookie jar
PART 2
Some reason I can't upload the pic of Chance's craft so I had to do it in a different post.
Saturday, February 24, 2007
Who Stole The Cookie From The Cookie Jar?
I took Chance to play group on Friday for the first time since I went back to work (can you believe that next week it'll be 3 months already? I don't think I enjoyed a single day of it!) Anyways, Andrew hasn't taken them at all so since Friday was a snow day for me (yay snow days!) that I would take him. And the change in Chance was phenomenal!!! Before we went almost every week for 9 months and not once when they sing the song "hickory dickory bumble bee, can you say your name for me?" and the child is suppose to say their name and Chance has NEVER done it (although we play it at home ALL THE TIME and he says it). The first time at play group and they did the song Chance kicked the teacher b/c she touched his leg HAHA (she has never touched his leg again.. :)). But today he said his name!!!! AND that's not all, it was the first time that Chance didn't sit on my lap the whole time, AND the first time that he actually went and sat around the teacher during story time with the other kids, AND the first time he actually talked to Deb (the teacher), AND the first time that he did all the actions for songs on his own WITHOUT me holding his hands to do them, AND the first time that as soon as it was craft time he went running to the craft table and didn't even wait for me! Oh, and when we were leaving he even told Deb that we were going to go and buy him a new booster seat (like I said before he has never even talked to her before in 9 months previous!) LOL I guess he IS ready for school!
The theme at the library was cookies and we sang a bunch of songs about cookies, and read a story about cookie, so of course the craft would have to be cookie related. So here is his craft of a cookie jar and Chance drew all of the cookies in the cookie jar, even the BIG one that takes up the whole jar. Deb mentioned that there was a BIG change in Chance since she last saw him, his personality is different, and he cooperated, and she even told me that he shocked her (and ME!) when he said his name. lol. she also mentioned that for his age he did really good with his craft (the way he drew his circles, and the fact that he knew circles = the shape of cookies, good cognitive skills).
That's my boy!
I took Chance to play group on Friday for the first time since I went back to work (can you believe that next week it'll be 3 months already? I don't think I enjoyed a single day of it!) Anyways, Andrew hasn't taken them at all so since Friday was a snow day for me (yay snow days!) that I would take him. And the change in Chance was phenomenal!!! Before we went almost every week for 9 months and not once when they sing the song "hickory dickory bumble bee, can you say your name for me?" and the child is suppose to say their name and Chance has NEVER done it (although we play it at home ALL THE TIME and he says it). The first time at play group and they did the song Chance kicked the teacher b/c she touched his leg HAHA (she has never touched his leg again.. :)). But today he said his name!!!! AND that's not all, it was the first time that Chance didn't sit on my lap the whole time, AND the first time that he actually went and sat around the teacher during story time with the other kids, AND the first time he actually talked to Deb (the teacher), AND the first time that he did all the actions for songs on his own WITHOUT me holding his hands to do them, AND the first time that as soon as it was craft time he went running to the craft table and didn't even wait for me! Oh, and when we were leaving he even told Deb that we were going to go and buy him a new booster seat (like I said before he has never even talked to her before in 9 months previous!) LOL I guess he IS ready for school!
The theme at the library was cookies and we sang a bunch of songs about cookies, and read a story about cookie, so of course the craft would have to be cookie related. So here is his craft of a cookie jar and Chance drew all of the cookies in the cookie jar, even the BIG one that takes up the whole jar. Deb mentioned that there was a BIG change in Chance since she last saw him, his personality is different, and he cooperated, and she even told me that he shocked her (and ME!) when he said his name. lol. she also mentioned that for his age he did really good with his craft (the way he drew his circles, and the fact that he knew circles = the shape of cookies, good cognitive skills).
That's my boy!
Thursday, February 22, 2007
Love Thursday
Love is helping you sister when it's time to bandaged up her finger AGAIN! And doing it so lovingly.
With Skylar's injury to her finger it was a lot of work daily to keep it clean, bandaged, cream on, antibiotics etc,. Sometimes Andrew was not home when it was time to bandaged her finger, and as a 16 month old she doesn't like to sit still. So what do you? you bring in her big brother! Chance has been such a big help and has gotten used to sitting on the couch to hold Skylar finger while I did the work. And surprisingly Skylar had no problem sitting still for him and we got this job done quickly!
Monday, February 19, 2007
CLASS OF 2021
When trying to sleep last night I was fiddling around with some numbers. Now it already seems weird that Chance will be starting JK in September when he is ONLY 3 years old. But what is even more scarrier is that when I started doing LONG TERM numbers and realized that I will be sending my 13 year old off to high school. 13 YEARS OLD and in high school, oh my. Then it gets even better, I'll be sending him off to University at 17!!! He's not even old enough to buy a lottery ticket, but I am suppose to just drop him off on his own in the big scary world? Maybe I'll wait and let him start JK when he is 6. Then he can start highschool at 16, and start University at 20. That sounds better. Hmmm.... Something to think about. :)
Some of the downsides of starting JK early is he'll probably always be the youngest in his class unless there is someone born in the 35 days after his birthday, which also means he'll probably be on of the shortest in his class (unless he takes after his dad and grows up to be a bean pole as our Family Doctor called Andrew.. lol), all the other kids gets to experience things first, while all of his friends will be getting their license when they are in grade 10, Chance will have to wait until grade 11 (unless they change the age).
Saturday, February 17, 2007
Sorry All...
Sorry for the no post for a week. This week has been very busy. Since we have dial up (yes, the only ppl in the world left on dial up) uploading pictures take about 20 mins PER PICTURE and normally I don't mind the wait, but for the last 2 days I've been working on posts for the last week with lots of pics so it has taken awhile for me to finish, and I wanted to upload them all at the same time so you can see the sequence of the last week. So here we go... :)
P.S. I decided last week I was going to do "Wednesday Lyrics" every other Wednesday instead. So I was suppose to do one this week ,but I figure I've just overloaded your brain enough that I'll wait until next Wednesday. :)
Sorry for the no post for a week. This week has been very busy. Since we have dial up (yes, the only ppl in the world left on dial up) uploading pictures take about 20 mins PER PICTURE and normally I don't mind the wait, but for the last 2 days I've been working on posts for the last week with lots of pics so it has taken awhile for me to finish, and I wanted to upload them all at the same time so you can see the sequence of the last week. So here we go... :)
P.S. I decided last week I was going to do "Wednesday Lyrics" every other Wednesday instead. So I was suppose to do one this week ,but I figure I've just overloaded your brain enough that I'll wait until next Wednesday. :)
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Love Thursday
Love is having your son's b.mom not only think about her son when buying gifts, but will also think about his sister and get her a Valentine's gift as well.
When we (Carrie and I) were shopping to get Chance his Valentine's gift she also got Skylar a bear (who we named "Pinkie") and some chocolate's. As Carrie said "I can't get something for Chance and not his sister". Now THAT is love!
Visit to London
On Wednesday Feb 14th we went out to London to meet with the plastic surgeon to take a look at Skylar finger and he said that it looks really well. The healing is comming along really good as the wound is almost completly healed.
After her appointment we went to "Adventures on Wonderland" which is the bigest indoor playground (in London) for the kids and we spent over 2 hours there and we all had a blast! Even Andrew and I got to play around and crawl through the tunnels and stuff. It was fun!
After that we went to the mall and Andrew told me I could pick out anything that I wanted for Valentine's Day. We walked around for 3 hours before we were done and I got some clothes. It was hard to find clothes that fit and looked nice on me. but I was happy with what we got. By the time we got home it was 8:30pm and I had to leave for work in 2 hours! That was NOT fun, but the whole day was with the kid.
On Wednesday Feb 14th we went out to London to meet with the plastic surgeon to take a look at Skylar finger and he said that it looks really well. The healing is comming along really good as the wound is almost completly healed.
After her appointment we went to "Adventures on Wonderland" which is the bigest indoor playground (in London) for the kids and we spent over 2 hours there and we all had a blast! Even Andrew and I got to play around and crawl through the tunnels and stuff. It was fun!
After that we went to the mall and Andrew told me I could pick out anything that I wanted for Valentine's Day. We walked around for 3 hours before we were done and I got some clothes. It was hard to find clothes that fit and looked nice on me. but I was happy with what we got. By the time we got home it was 8:30pm and I had to leave for work in 2 hours! That was NOT fun, but the whole day was with the kid.
Thursday, February 15, 2007
Happy 26th Birthday to ME!!!
Yay, I'm finally 26. A day with mixed emotions as this year marked the point in my life when I can now say I'm closer to 30 then 20! Man, life is going way to quickly, but I have been enjoying it. I did have a good birthday, even if the ONLY person that called to wish me a happy birthday was my mother-n-law! :)
I worked 12-8am, came home and slept till 5:00 when Chance came and woke me up and told me my pie was melting to come quick. lol (Chance and Andrew made a cherry delight pie for me, but Andrew forgot the whip cream so he used ice cream instead, so infact my pie was melting). We ate, had some dinner (chicken stir fry), then we did pie, and presents. From Chance I got "The mother of all parenting books" (I love this series - I have "the mother of all pregnancy books", "the mother of all baby books" and "the mother of all toddler books" . From Andrew I got an ice cream maker! I can't wait to try it out. Never had homemade ice cream before.
After presents Chance and I went to kids Klub at church where as soon as we walk into the building Chance informs them that it is mommy's birthday - so they all sing to me there. Then I came home and went to bed again! :)
Valentines Day with the kids
On Sunday we had valentines with the kids. We did this because 1) Chance got a suitcase and I wanted him to use it on Tuesday when we were going for a sleepover at Andrew's parents. 2) we were going to be in London on Valentines Day and I was going to come home and sleep til 8:00 then have a Valentines Dinner with Andrew alone.
How we do Valentines is that Chance is going to be Valentines Day until he gets married. (Just like my sister and I were my dads Valentines until we got married). So Skylar was suspose to be Andrew's Valentines.
Andrew worked until 5:00 so he got home at 6:00 and I had made a nice Valentine's dinner for us, and had Andrew's present from Skylar wrapped, and Chance present from mommy waiting. Only to have Andrew forget and got nothing for me from Chance and nothing from Skylar from him. So he had some scrambling to do! He got a little pink mouse that used to be his when he was a kid to give to her, and I got some noname ferrio rocher chocolates. Chance got a Diego suitcase, 3 cups for when he starts school to take his drinks in, some chocolates, and a bear that has a place to put a picture in it, so I put mine and Andrew's picture in it. The only time he can play/sleep with it is when he goes on sleepovers as he's been having a hard time with seperation. At my sisters he carries around our 8x10 family picture and sleeps with it at night time. Andrew from Skylar Andrew got a frog garden statues. "see no evil, hear no evil and do no eveil"
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My Darling Sister
On Friday February 2nd I had to take our car in for some regular matienence and I had 3 and half hours to kill so I called my sister to see if she was free to hang out. We did some shopping and then went to King's Buffet for lunch. Where my darling sister told them it was birthday! So you all know what's coming next! After we were done they came out with a small piece of cake (you can see the candle in the corner), singing happy birthday to me and gave me a balloon. I think they give you a red balloon so that your face can match it! But it was a fun time and really enjoyed the morning with my sister - even if she embarrassed me to death! :)
Friday, February 09, 2007
Good Girl
Skylar has been really good lately with bringing you every piece of dirt or paper she finds on the floor telling you "dirty" or "thank you" (as we say thank you when she gives it to us). The other day I was in the kitchen trying to get dinner ready and Skylar was with me bringing all the peices off the floor and she saw me put them in the garbage pail. So next time instead of bringing it to me she went and opened the garbage and put it in. So I praised her by saying "good girl" and she repeated it back with a big smile. So off she went trying to find the smallest peice of dirt, paper or garbage and she would put it in the garbage and say "good girl" and I would repeat it back to her, not really paying attention. Then after dinner I went to throw some left over food in the garbage and found it full of her TOYS! I guess she couldn't find any more garbage but wanted to finish the game! Now when we are in the kitchen and I hear "good girl" before I say it back I look to see what she put in there first!
Skylar has been really good lately with bringing you every piece of dirt or paper she finds on the floor telling you "dirty" or "thank you" (as we say thank you when she gives it to us). The other day I was in the kitchen trying to get dinner ready and Skylar was with me bringing all the peices off the floor and she saw me put them in the garbage pail. So next time instead of bringing it to me she went and opened the garbage and put it in. So I praised her by saying "good girl" and she repeated it back with a big smile. So off she went trying to find the smallest peice of dirt, paper or garbage and she would put it in the garbage and say "good girl" and I would repeat it back to her, not really paying attention. Then after dinner I went to throw some left over food in the garbage and found it full of her TOYS! I guess she couldn't find any more garbage but wanted to finish the game! Now when we are in the kitchen and I hear "good girl" before I say it back I look to see what she put in there first!
Thursday, February 08, 2007
Love Thursday
Last week I had the pleasure of meeting up with Carrie for a short visit. While we were out she asked if she would be allowed to stop at the store so she can pick up a Valentine present for Chance. I said that was fine. So off to shoppers at 11:45pm we went. If was nice to be spending time with Carrie and seeing the joy on her face as she picked the best stuffed animal she could find for Chance. I am glad that I brought my camera into the store with me so I was able to get a picture of her buying his stuff to show him. Even if it wasn't the best picture as I caught her off guard when she turned around. :) It was a great experience.
Next week Love Thursday will be a continuation of this experience. :)
Tuesday, February 06, 2007
broken toe...well almost
This morning Chance hurt his toe, not sure how. But right away he kept saying that he "almost broke my toe". Then he comes downstairs to tell Daddy that he "toe is almost broken". lol. I have no idea where a broken toe idea has come from, but he was pretty sure that is what happened this morning.
This morning Chance hurt his toe, not sure how. But right away he kept saying that he "almost broke my toe". Then he comes downstairs to tell Daddy that he "toe is almost broken". lol. I have no idea where a broken toe idea has come from, but he was pretty sure that is what happened this morning.
Monday, February 05, 2007
Santa didn't come last night...
I've been sick all weekend and with Andrew gone from Saturday morning till Sunday night I was on my own with the kids. Unfortunately I didn't do much with them. But Chance took good care of mommy! He would bring pillows down and put on the couch and tell me to lay down. Then he'll put the blanket on me and wrap me up pretty tight, then tell me to go to sleep. Telling me "don't worry mommy, Chance watch Skylar for you". When I told him I couldn't go to sleep he said "well...umm...just rest your eyes then." So I rested on the couch. He kept wanting to give me medicine to help me feel better. He would get me a drink, then put it high so Skylar wouldn't get it. Then last night Chance told me that Santa was going to come to make me feel better. I told him that Santa can't make me feel better, but Jesus can. So we prayed instead!
I've been sick all weekend and with Andrew gone from Saturday morning till Sunday night I was on my own with the kids. Unfortunately I didn't do much with them. But Chance took good care of mommy! He would bring pillows down and put on the couch and tell me to lay down. Then he'll put the blanket on me and wrap me up pretty tight, then tell me to go to sleep. Telling me "don't worry mommy, Chance watch Skylar for you". When I told him I couldn't go to sleep he said "well...umm...just rest your eyes then." So I rested on the couch. He kept wanting to give me medicine to help me feel better. He would get me a drink, then put it high so Skylar wouldn't get it. Then last night Chance told me that Santa was going to come to make me feel better. I told him that Santa can't make me feel better, but Jesus can. So we prayed instead!
Thursday, February 01, 2007
Love Thursday
Love is protecting your baby sister from the big scary vacuum.
Kids naturally have a fear of the vacuum. Chance has been since the day we got him, however Skylar never seemed to mind it much. It's only been in the last few months I guess she hasn't liked it. With Chance since he was a baby we would put him on the couch and wrap him up with a blanket and he'll sit there and watch. On Tuesday he saw me get the vacuum and automatically went to the couch with the blanket. Skylar just stood there watching so I didn't think anything of it until I turned it on and she started to scream and cry. Chance, not thinking twice, jumped from the couch OVER the vacuum (he actually touched it to get around me), ran to get Skylar and took her hand. He then lead her to the couch and helped her get up where he proceeds to give her a big hug and wrap the blanket around here while saying "shhh, it's ok Skylar. Skylar safe. Chance protect you" By the time I grabbed the camera Skylar had taken the blanket off.
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