Thursday, February 19, 2015

Sight words

Camden's homework includes taking sight words from a book they read in class that week and writing them in sentences.  I know the directions say otherwise, but his work is to use all the words in a story/sentences.  So, after much persuasion, I finally convinced him that it was ok to write "jumped" instead of "jump" because it makes more sense and is really close. Well, that was enough of an argument for him that he decided "forest" made more sense in his story than "for".  He he!





His story: 
Up, up, and away went the tiger! Did balloons make him go to the zoo?  No, it is not a balloon.  He jumped from a forest but the wind blew him off to the zoo.  

Not bad for having to incorporate 12 sight words! 

Sunday, January 25, 2015

McKayvman

Mckay is in a charming, adorable stage right now.  He is so fun!  But lately, he's turned super goofy as well!  He loves performing.  He knows a bunch of words, but will only use a few favorites each week.  This week, it's "Daddeeeeee".  Everything is "Daaadddeee!"  Brian took Camden and Nate to get a drink during church.  Mr. Magoo realized "Daaaaddddeeee" was leaving without him and let out a huge protest.  There was nothing I could do to calm him, so we hurried to follow before we interrupted too much.  He's a serious Daddy's boy, and doesn't like Nate to sit on Dad's lap or either older brother to get attention from Dad.

This week, he's also saying "ding dong" but he doesn't know what it means or why he says it.  "Dah-saur", (yeah....are we really surprised that it's a first word for him?) is one from last week.  He just laughs when I try and get him to say "Mommy".   He also grunts. A lot.

He can't bear to be left out of what Camden and Nate are doing, and will just throw himself into a wrestling match.  He loves to copy the silly dance moves that the big boys do, so of course, they do more silly things to watch Mckay copy them.

He also has no hesitation about expressing his grievances to me about the injustices of life imposed on him by Camden and Nate.


He also learned to climb up onto the table, which is countertop height!  We're in trouble now!

I hope his humor is more of a personality trait than a stage.

I hope his inability to stay asleep is a stage that ends now. :( He just wakes up between each sleep stage and requires Brian to yell at him.  Seriously, soothing words or cuddling are totally ineffective and make him really upset.  A few times cuddling has sent him into a night terror-like state.  But, Brian says "NO! STOP IT!" and he goes back to sleep.  It can't be me or Nate (we've both tried!).

Friday, January 2, 2015

New Year's Eve 2014

My camera decided to go all haywire right as we were doing our New Year's party, but here are the pictures I got: 

All the boys watching the clock phone (set on the piano) count down for our New Year's party. 

Can you see a white string in Nate's hand?  Well, it was connected to a plastic table cloth filled with balloons, up on the ceiling.  After we counted down, the boys pulled down their strings for a balloon drop!  We were going to wait until 7:00 for our "New Year", but we only made it until 6:30.  Such is the life with kids who wake up before 6 am. 
 Dad needed to help out a little, and then most of the balloons got static-stuck to the ceiling.  He he!  The boys had a fun time knocking them down.
 Balloon fight! 
 Dad used Nate's bow to shoot a balloon.  
We poured Martinelli's and said, "Goodbye, 2014!  Hello, 2015!" Then we each said something that was special from that year. We got these cool spring-loaded popper things that shot confetti everywhere.  They were super fun!


Happy New Year!