Brad and I celebrated our 6 year anniversary on Saturday. For our anniversary, we went to 2 basketball games, grocery shopping, argued with children about naps, had other children over at our house, and did laundry. On a positive note, I saved the housecleaning for Sunday and one of the 2 basketball games were a win (the other was a 3pt loss), and did get a little girl down for a nap. Oh and we did have lunch together on Friday - that was nice; we even got a free appetizer!!! Our 6 yr anniversary also marks that we have been living in NC for 6 yrs now - we have really met some wonderful people and friends in the past 6 years.
For our 6 year anniversary - I'm going to give you 6 reasons why I love my husband
1) He can always make me laugh
2) He tickles me when I tell him not to
3) He still loves me despite the added 15-20lbs
4) He helps me clean the house
5) He helps give the kids bath
6) Yesterday, he explained the simple machines to me for J's project
I love you hon!!!!
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
Friday, February 13, 2009
Blows my mind
It truly amazes me how people learn and calculate in different manners. J has always computed his math problems in a different way than myself; but it struck me the other night that I honestly CAN'T compute in the same way. J uses the "rounding method" He's always used 5's or 10's to round and than add or subtract to get answers for large digit addition and subtraction problems and he can spit them out faster than I can use the calculator. He's now on 3 digit division and he uses the same method of rounding. The funny thing is when I showed him how I calculate the problems, he was amazed that you could do it my way and he even had me use the calculator to ensure I had done it correctly.
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
AB's Happenings
Ok - I've really slacked off on updating everyone on AB as she's had a lot going on. First off, she did really well with the surgery but it has split apart in the middle and we are going to have to redo the surgery. The dr wanted to wait 3 months to let her heal and than we have to go back in and she'll have to reconnect the part that split apart. This means we're still waiting on speech therapy, by the way. On to some good news, she is really doing much better with Brad. This morning she wanted to stay with Brad and not go with me. She's still preferring me very much in the mornings, but other than that she's doing great with Brad and is really starting to bond with him.
She's also doing really well at daycare and is playing more with the other kids and participating without encouragement. She's also very much into dancing. Everytime she hears a song she starts dancing - it's the cutest thing. She's also talking more and more. She is now trying to sing Old McDonald.
All in all, I think she's adjusting really well and I can see improvement from just a few weeks ago. She also follows D everywhere. She really loves her big brothers. She got upset this past weekend as we went to the park and D had his scooter and she didn't have one. I see one in her near future.
She's also doing really well at daycare and is playing more with the other kids and participating without encouragement. She's also very much into dancing. Everytime she hears a song she starts dancing - it's the cutest thing. She's also talking more and more. She is now trying to sing Old McDonald.
All in all, I think she's adjusting really well and I can see improvement from just a few weeks ago. She also follows D everywhere. She really loves her big brothers. She got upset this past weekend as we went to the park and D had his scooter and she didn't have one. I see one in her near future.
D's Happenings
D is still loving preschool and is very excited that he has a birthday coming up in the next couple weeks. We're planning a party at Hickory Dickory Dock and he can't wait. He told me that "all his best friends will be there". By the way, just about everyone that he meets is his best friends - he doesn't even know all their names.
Also, I'm a bad mom and have now twice in a row have missed the swimming sign up. I swear the Y sends me out the happenings a week too late every time. I'm determined to catch the March sign up so keep your fingers crossed and say a little prayer.
Also, I want to note that I think I put 3 cups of sugar instead of 1 1/2 cups of sugar in the kool aid the last time I made it. I went to make some more tonight and where I always keep the 1/2 cup measuring device was a 1 cup one. I remember thinking "boy this seems like a large 1/2 cup". I swear I'm losing my mind and my children are very hyper and happy due to it.
Also, I'm a bad mom and have now twice in a row have missed the swimming sign up. I swear the Y sends me out the happenings a week too late every time. I'm determined to catch the March sign up so keep your fingers crossed and say a little prayer.
Also, I want to note that I think I put 3 cups of sugar instead of 1 1/2 cups of sugar in the kool aid the last time I made it. I went to make some more tonight and where I always keep the 1/2 cup measuring device was a 1 cup one. I remember thinking "boy this seems like a large 1/2 cup". I swear I'm losing my mind and my children are very hyper and happy due to it.
J's Happenings
Well we are just about finished with basketball and we have our first soccer game for the spring season this weekend. J has been having a hard time with the soccer practices and the other kids on the team this winter, but just as Brad predicted once the games started (preseason game 2 weeks ago) he loves soccer again and wants to try out for next year. We'll see what happens.
He's been doing basketball this season and he's having a great time with it. We had a nail biter of a game this past weekend as they won by 1 point. They played really well and they just seemed to make just about every shot they took. J, I think, enjoys stealing the ball more than he likes making a basket so once again we are playing a lot of defense in sports. I think defense is his calling.
He's doing well in school as well. But he was a little disappointed as he thought he was going to make the all A honor roll this past marking period and he had one B - we have one more marking period left in the school year and he's shooting for the straight A's again.
He's been doing basketball this season and he's having a great time with it. We had a nail biter of a game this past weekend as they won by 1 point. They played really well and they just seemed to make just about every shot they took. J, I think, enjoys stealing the ball more than he likes making a basket so once again we are playing a lot of defense in sports. I think defense is his calling.
He's doing well in school as well. But he was a little disappointed as he thought he was going to make the all A honor roll this past marking period and he had one B - we have one more marking period left in the school year and he's shooting for the straight A's again.
Finally a new post
Ok - so a friend of mine said a month ago why don't you join Facebook. Hello - I can't even keep this site up to date let alone a social network. Well I'm going to try and do better on here.
Brad and my anniversary is this Saturday - 6 years; how the time flies. Big plans - let's see soccer game in Winston and than a tournament basketball game here in town. Brad's working on my brother to watch the kids on Sunday evening so we can catch an early dinner together.
Well I'm going to do a separate update post on all 3 of the kids so here goes. Hey, I might even put up some new pics tonight too - aren't you all so proud of me.
Brad and my anniversary is this Saturday - 6 years; how the time flies. Big plans - let's see soccer game in Winston and than a tournament basketball game here in town. Brad's working on my brother to watch the kids on Sunday evening so we can catch an early dinner together.
Well I'm going to do a separate update post on all 3 of the kids so here goes. Hey, I might even put up some new pics tonight too - aren't you all so proud of me.
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