Boy, I’ve been bad about updating!
Things have been busy, busy, busy!
I’ll start with the kids, then maybe I’ll ramble
Baby Girl has taken off crawling. Unlike the others that enjoyed their newfound freedom, she doesn’t really appreciate it. She was much happier when she was limited to where she was put on a blanket with one or two toys. The poor girl gets herself so overstimulated with everything she can go and see now that she ends up a crying clingy mess within 15 minutes. So we bought a baby play yard for the first time ever. It’s working out great. There’s plenty of room for her to move around without being overwhelming for her. She’s growing well, and is a very cheerful girl. As long as she has her mama…
But since the last two have been daddy’s girls, I’m enjoying it
Pixie Girl is beginning to talk some. We took her to see a speech therapist a few months ago and while her speech is severely delayed, her comprehension is not, which meant that her overall score was too high to qualify for speech therapy. She’ll be retested in a few months to see how she does then. Until then we keep working with her
She is, by far, the girliest girly girl I’ve ever seen. The outfits that girl comes up with crack me up! Mismatched shoes over mismatched socks, with a dress, a skirt as a cape, and bangle bracelets from elbow to wrist, are sure to be a fashion statement one of these days
Little Miss Feisty has finally gained the fine motor skills needed to join with her brothers in learning handwriting. She now stays up with them for school, instead of napping. She’s growing up fast!
Dexter has really picked up on reading in the past few weeks. He’s “officially” a student this year, so now our homeschool paperwork will include 2
Prince Charming is picking up on his reading as well and is learning fractions. They’re really clicking for him. Hopefully they’ll continue to make sense to him. They sure didn’t for me!
School is going well this year, and hopefully will continue to do so. We’re still getting caught up a bit from last year, but moving along nicely. We changed the schedule up a bit more this year. I am not a morning person. I’ve tried. I really have. I just can’t do it for more than a week, no matter how early I go to bed. So the kids work on their chores, and play, burning off their energy since they are morning people, while I trudge along trying to open my eyes and become a functioning human being. By the time lunch is over we’re usually at a happy medium. I’m functioning and the kids are calm. Then we start school
Bible first, then math, then practice reading and art (they each take turns reading to me, while the other 2 work on an art project), after that we either do science and geography, or read from Little House on the Prairie. We usually do science first, unless it’s a video. At some point during our reading Baby Girl wake up hungry and one of the kids will give her a bottle while we continue reading.
The weather is changing here and it’s GORGEOUS! I can’t remember ever thinking “It’s fall” in September, but we definitely got fall this year! It’s so nice to have the house opened up, instead of running the air conditioner
A Super Walmart opened not far from us. So far I’m really enjoying it! The Winco near us went rapidly downhill last year in their quality, so we were having to shop at higher priced grocery stores. While the produce there was beautiful, the prices were just as large and shiny
So far we’ve done well at Walmart, and it helps that I now go every shopping trip, so that I don’t forget what household items I needed the few times a year that we went to Walmart before. Being slightly psychotic about which order things go on the conveyor belt at the grocery store though, I’m having an even harder time now that things like new shoes and clothes are thrown into the mix.
Ours is a “green” store, and I LOVE seeing everything inside by nothing but the sunlight streaming in through the ceiling while shopping during the day. It just makes shopping seem so much calmer without the fluorescent lighting.
And, I really can’t think of anything else to write right now… Maybe my next post will contain pictures, but I’ve forgotten how I uploaded them the last time and my head hurts too much for me to figure out how to load them right now.
Hopefully I’ll get this blog updated sooner than 5 months from now! heehee!













