Jim finished up his fourteenth year of teaching. We sound old, don't we?
The boys have befriended some little boys across the street. D is finishing up first grade and N is entering kindergarten next year. They're really sweet little boys and I'm looking forward to a summer of sharing our yard with them! And as a bonus, our street is pretty much local traffic only I'm able to let the older boys travel back and forth pretty much by themselves.
The boys also got to go to the dentist yesterday. Good reports all around. The only concern is that Aidan and Toby need to stop the finger/thumb sucking to avoid orthodontia in the future. Yup, made a sticker chart for that. Toby's totally on board because the reward is a donut! :)
Avery's doing well in her big girl bed. In fact, I made black out shades out of a navy blue twin flat sheet. Say it with me now, "red neck curtain". I think she's too scared of the dark to venture out of bed because in the morning and after nap she cries out, "I want my mamma" instead of getting out of bed. A little trauma never hurt when trying to train a kid to stay in bed, right?
I'm swimming along here. I'm mostly trying to implement this year's chore chart system and schedule. As usual, I'm my own worst enemy! As I type Aidan is making his own breakfast and offered to make me some. Avery cleared her own place at the table this morning without prompting and even put her spoon in the dishwasher. Evan is plowing through books at breakneck speed. Toby is, well, Toby. He cracks us up. We're starting to work on letter and number recognition with him.
Enough bragging on my family? We're overall doing well!
Please remember my friend's eight-year-old son in your prayers. He's hospitalized right now and that's about as far as I'd like to go on that without his Mom's permission.
1 comment:
Okay, Tara, thanks for the laugh (red neck curtains). That's really called "thrifty gal curtains", and I'm all for that. My first homemade curtains were a pair of large, creamy yellow bath towels tied back with white eyelet (all I had to do was sew a top tunnel for the curtain rod by folding a couple inches of towel over and sewing)...for the bathroom. That was when I was newly married (21 years old)...so, we do what we must to get by on our wonderful budgets! Because of things like this, we can help our kids go through college later, right?
Pam
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