Gracie - reading up a storm, but gets worn out if there is too much. She stated the other night "I'm *sick* of reading." She wasn't even reading at the time, it was just the idea of the reading she needed to do that night. We teased her about it & got her to laugh & I don't really think she hates reading (I hope not, I can't imagine that!). She read "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" the other night by herself. Pretty neat, considering it was one of the first books I ever read to her!
She's always busy with little "projects." At school they get a little bit of free time in the morning to go to a center, and she usually chooses art, writing or science. If she's been in the writing center, she almost always comes home with something for Clara or JM. Here's her project from yesterday:
It's a puzzle with a picture of Humpty Dumpty saying "Aaaaa" (before he falls, I assume). She made the matching picture on the envelope and then that's a receipt that she included as well. She informed me that she was trying to trick Clara about where it came from with the receipt (see the red "Target?")
Clara - Well, I don't have a lot of new things to say about what she has been doing, because she has mainly been trying to get better. She endured six shots last week of antibiotics (2 shots a day, for three days) & these suckers hurt - she hurt too much to walk or stand afterward for a few hours. But on the positive side, it did finally get rid of her ear infections. Now she just has fluid in her ears, so we'll see in a month if that has cleared up. If not, then we do go on to the ENT. Hopefully, we can get her completely healed up.
She did recount the whole story of the people coming from the desert and walking around the wall seven times for seven days, and then the wall fell down and Jericho was theirs! (we have the Veggie Tales movie). As usual, she has a lot to tell us and likes to give lots of details (I don't know who that comes from ... ha, ha).
Oh & before all of the ear infection got bad (along with a respiratory virus that put her on breathing treatments again), she & Gracie got out their Barbies & took them to the portrait studio. Here's Clara's rendition with the Barbie posing next to the drawing. The one on the left was the final product - the other two were practice ones, she told me.
JM - okay, he should probably have his own post! He's saying lots of things, but still in that phase where we are not sure what half of them are. Here are some of the more recent ones: amen (after grace), dee end (the end), brush (hair & teeth - he loves to do both!), *CRASH* (people, toys, things, whatever!), no-nut (donut, his all time favorite food that will drive him to a 20 minute fit if you tell him no more - as I found out yesterday, but Clara helped him get over that by suggesting .... a "pop," as in a popsicle), coat (as in - put my coat on I want to go outside!).
One of the funniest things he's taken to doing lately is "practicing" the piano like Gracie does for her music class. Gracie has been working on the five finger scale & she is supposed to sing along (do, re, mi, etc.) as she plays. She has a plastic folder for all her music stuff and props it beyond the keyboard when she's practicing. So JM found a plastic folder in a bookcase, started saying "do-do-do" and ran to the keyboard and started playing, of course. He's done this several times now, & if we ask him if he is going to practice the piano, he will go and get that notebook and tell you "do-do-do."
John Michael has finally learned to really enjoy his books, too. It used to be a good night or naptime if you could get through a couple of shorter books without him becoming too wiggly. Now you have to give him the last book warning & even then he is sure he still needs more and more books - it's a great thing, though. But we'll have to keep Gracie from telling him about the whole "bonus" book thing.
He also loves to sit in either his little rocking chair or the recliner in his room and page through books on his own. If it's not naptime or bedtime, he's not really interested in you reading him a book, though.
He loves to carry around a pencil/pen/any writing instrument and a notebook/piece of paper/Mike's old driver license/anything he thinks should be written on. And just trying wrenching those objects away from him when it is time to sleep/eat/limit the destruction!
I know I am leaving out tons of new/neat things he can do now. Just this afternoon, he was helping me load firewood (not sticks but actual logs, although they were split logs) into our yard cart. He's a very determined boy!!
Here he is with his Sis just this morning.
And last, but not least. Coco has learned to (mostly) stay in the yard when the gate is open, to stay outside and not complain too much if we don't have time to let her in & dry her paws off every half hour, sleep through the night (as long as you consider being awake and ready to play by 4 or 5am morning), sort of sit when you are giving her a treat or a biscuit.
And that's all for now, folks!
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