First a few things Duncan has been saying. With almost every sentence it starts with Can you believe what ever he is going to tell you about or Did you not recognize I could do this or that! He also says I need, or do you need issistance. (assistance)! He also has been singing the days of the week, and talking about the seasons. He is always asking is it still winter, and why is it still winter. Or is it spring yet!! He knows his birthday now too, they have mittens at school with their birthday on, they put them on a tree everyday at school. They made a goal chart at school the other day, the director is always sending little emails about this stuff. Duncan's goal for this year is to learn to ride his bike on the ice! She says we better watch out, he is all boy. That he is!
Now for the other four kiddos, we continue to learn what works and what doesn't every day! Most recently we have started letting them have their drinks at the end of the meal. Lots less spills that way! Since I decided they needed to learn to drink without lids they have decided the last couple days that they are not going to use them, even if we want them to! We were giving them drinks at the beginning of the meal, but they mess around and it ends up getting spilled. We have also started using the timer at meal time. When they decide that they are going to play and not eat we set the timer for 5 minutes and meal time is DONE! They all know what it means when I say I am going to sit the timer, because they tell me no!! It gets set anyway and when it goes off, plates come off the table and they get washed up and get down. They eat in the last 5 minutes usually, well Olivia does anyway, but she will stay at the table for a hour if you let her. So my hopes are that they will one day eat and not play!! They are doing better about sitting on the big chairs to eat. We still have our days, but we always will!
Olivia has decided she likes to jump! She was jumping off of my leg to the floor. She had a hold of my hand, but she did it and laughed and laughed. So they boys all decided they needed to do it too, we all had fun with it. They like to jump out of the recliners too, that is what I caught them doing when I came into the living room tonight. They had the leg rest out and jumping away! They can get to anything they want these days.
Naps are a thing of the past I believe. I still put them in bed to rest, but they just play. They other day I put them up in their room for rest time, but they played instead. I went upstairs and had sheets off the mattress and they were pulling the inside of one mattress out. It got broke the other day while all 5 kids were jumping on it. i put grey tape on it but they took it off. So we taped it a little better.
Tracy left for a conference in California today. He will be back on Friday. It could be a long week! Not really, it will be fine. I know I can call anyone if I need help. I am working on Wednesday and Mom is going to babysit. She is off this week so help really is just a phone call away!
While we were playing tonight, I thought all of the kids were down on the floor wresting around, well I was wrong. Olivia was on a stool and had gotten my glasses off of the table and broke the bow off. Good thing I have some contacts. Guess I should pay more attention, she was very quiet, quietness is always bad in this house!!!
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