Not even two and he has his first stitches!
Em didn't see Ammon and accidently knocked him over and he hit his head on the coffee table. 2 stitches to his right eyebrow. Yes he cried. Yes he settled down very quickly once he noticed 'Bo On The Go' on TV. Yes I wasn't going to be brave enough to take him to A&E myself, so yes Nate took him. Thank goodness. They had to wrap him in a sheet so they could restrain him enough to do the stitches. Nate said he cried a bit, but I think he was sparing my feelings. If the girls had been there they would have gone ape, they just hate watching a sibling suffer.
But he's tucked up in bed now, with some antibiotics to take 3 times a day and maybe a small concussion.
Oh is this how it is with boys??? A taste of things to come? At least he matches his Daddy - Nate got stitches in exactly the same place but opposite eye. Boys.
Thursday, March 25, 2010
Thursday, March 11, 2010
Asking the wrong question
As you read this, keep in mind that the door to the roof access in our home is in the toilet....
Leah, flush the toilet!
Leah! Flush the toilet!
Leah!!!! You have to flush the toilet after you're finished!!
Leah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(imagine a month or five have passed with the above being said again... and again... and again...)
Leah, you know you should flush the toilet when you've finished aye?
Yes Mum.
Then why don't you?
'Cause if I flush the toilet the monster will hear me and come down the door and get me.
Mmmm... why didn't I ask it that way months ago??
Leah, flush the toilet!
Leah! Flush the toilet!
Leah!!!! You have to flush the toilet after you're finished!!
Leah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(imagine a month or five have passed with the above being said again... and again... and again...)
Leah, you know you should flush the toilet when you've finished aye?
Yes Mum.
Then why don't you?
'Cause if I flush the toilet the monster will hear me and come down the door and get me.
Mmmm... why didn't I ask it that way months ago??
Tuesday, March 09, 2010
Leah's first report
Well we had our first parent-teacher interview in regards to Leah yesterday, and she is doing really well. We are pleased. Although there wasn't any big surprises in there, it was still nice to hear she is on a good track. Leah doesn't seem to have the inclination towards excelling at education like Emerson does, but she will do well enough and we think will excel in other areas.
Here's her report:
ORAL LANGUAGE - excellent control and speaks clearly (goal: to develop her confidence when speaking to a larger group)
READING - is secure, understands some punctuation (goal: recognise more punctuation and changes in word/letter order)
ALPHABET - 43 out of 54 upper and lower case letters (goal: to recognise all the letters)
WORD RECOGNITION - 4 from a list of given words (goal: to recognise more basic words)
WRITING - right handed, can write 6 basic words and family names independantly (goal: to increase her basic words)
MATHS - can form sets up to 12, rote count to 39, solve early addition and subtraction problems (goal: recognise numbers to 20 and count backwards from 20)
GENERAL - Is more confident and settled, is friendly and cheerful who is keen to learn and to try new things. She enjoys the company of her class mates and she works well in a group.
The goals are good to know, it gives us direction for helping her at home and with her homework. Already we note how she has a very good memory and does a lot of her homework from memory and barely learns the actual words/text. Teach her once and instead of learning it she just memorizes it and then she's done. So we have to make her go back and really try to learn her words or books.
Mind you, for only being at school 4 weeks now she's doing pretty darn good. If you ask her about school though, she'll only ever tell you about what happened at playtime or lunchtime, nothing at all to do with the classroom.
We walked Emerson to her class and to the car for about 2 terms when she started school, but Leah asked us to wait at the gate from week 2. Even if we go to her room anyway, she just runs off to play or find Emerson barely bothering to show us anything in her classroom. We definitely don't feel like we are as up to date with Leah's learning as we were with Emmy's but that just goes to show how individual our children are. Em loved to show her stuff off, Leah couldn't care less. She did ask us to watch her swimming demonstration though, so we did. Tomorrow is Emerson's.
I think we have Emerson's parent-teacher interview in a couple weeks.
Here's her report:
ORAL LANGUAGE - excellent control and speaks clearly (goal: to develop her confidence when speaking to a larger group)
READING - is secure, understands some punctuation (goal: recognise more punctuation and changes in word/letter order)
ALPHABET - 43 out of 54 upper and lower case letters (goal: to recognise all the letters)
WORD RECOGNITION - 4 from a list of given words (goal: to recognise more basic words)
WRITING - right handed, can write 6 basic words and family names independantly (goal: to increase her basic words)
MATHS - can form sets up to 12, rote count to 39, solve early addition and subtraction problems (goal: recognise numbers to 20 and count backwards from 20)
GENERAL - Is more confident and settled, is friendly and cheerful who is keen to learn and to try new things. She enjoys the company of her class mates and she works well in a group.
The goals are good to know, it gives us direction for helping her at home and with her homework. Already we note how she has a very good memory and does a lot of her homework from memory and barely learns the actual words/text. Teach her once and instead of learning it she just memorizes it and then she's done. So we have to make her go back and really try to learn her words or books.
Mind you, for only being at school 4 weeks now she's doing pretty darn good. If you ask her about school though, she'll only ever tell you about what happened at playtime or lunchtime, nothing at all to do with the classroom.
We walked Emerson to her class and to the car for about 2 terms when she started school, but Leah asked us to wait at the gate from week 2. Even if we go to her room anyway, she just runs off to play or find Emerson barely bothering to show us anything in her classroom. We definitely don't feel like we are as up to date with Leah's learning as we were with Emmy's but that just goes to show how individual our children are. Em loved to show her stuff off, Leah couldn't care less. She did ask us to watch her swimming demonstration though, so we did. Tomorrow is Emerson's.
I think we have Emerson's parent-teacher interview in a couple weeks.
Wednesday, March 03, 2010
10 YEARS - 4 March 2010
Happy Anniversary my sweetheart. I love you more than the day we were married, more deeper than I thought I would. Everything just gets better and better! Thank you for loving me and our children, for letting me talk you into another one :-) and for knowing me so well.
We are good for each other and I am glad you are mine for eternity.
xxx
We are good for each other and I am glad you are mine for eternity.
xxx
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