Ada brought home this worksheet yesterday of sentences that she wrote:
1. I love my famlie becuse thar nics to me and that they are silly and I am to.
2. I like to go swimming becuse I git to go swimming with my Grandma and Grandpa.
3. I love to show evrebody that I love Jesus becuse I got babtisd.
4. I like to go to the bech it is fun that I go swimming thar.
There was then a note from her teacher: Good sentences! be sure to use the words on the other side! So I looked … Read the rest
I had an “a-ha” moment at Grace’s counseling session the other night. Well, more accurately, it was an, “A-ha! Oh wait, duh” moment.
Grace doesn’t like unknowns. I took her into school the week before it started so she could meet her teacher (cross off fears Is my teacher nice? and Will my teacher like me?). She got to explore the classroom and take a look at the class roster (cross off fear Will I have any friends in my class?). By the end of our time there, her mood had changed from dread to anticipation. She can’t handle blanks.… Read the rest
Grace’s first day of Kindergarten! Look at that dimple. She was so excited! It’s so weird to see pictures of her without glasses now. She LOVED Kindergarten. Miss Cyndi loved her too. She always said she would be an author or an illustrator someday. She loved Grace’s gifts and encouraged them every single day.
Eli and Ada all ready for preschool (it started two weeks later)! Eli was in the
Pre-K class and Ada was in the two-year-old class at our church’s preschool. I’ve loved all of their classes there, and all of their … Read the rest
Here are my Littles, three long years ago. Grace was in first grade, Eli in Kindergarten, and Ada was waiting to start 3-year-old preschool.
My sweet Ada, her book bag used to bounce on the back of her knees with every step. It’s funny how looking at this picture makes it seem like yesterday, and a lifetime ago all at the same time. Her cute little duckie glasses. 🙂
Yesterday was rather crazy, so I forgot to post a picture. It turns out I didn’t take a first day of school picture in 2010?? Oops. Here are some pictures from somewhere near the first day of school…
Grace would be going in to second grade. I actually got her to cut her hair that summer, it was so nice! This girl deeply hates to brush her hair.
Here is Eli, all hot and crabby at the zoo 🙂 He was going into first grade.
And Ada. I call this her … Read the rest
It is the last week of summer break. My days are now spent refereeing and coming up with new ways to separate my children so that there are still three of them when Chad gets home from work. They are done. They are just done being together for 12 hours a day. They each have friends on our street, which is a HUGE blessing, so they can each be playing somewhere else WITH someone else, but those friends aren’t always available.
To help me keep things in perspective, I thought I would post a photo a day of previous years’ … Read the rest
Grace turned nine on Saturday! She is kind, generous, compassionate, and tender-hearted. She is SO musical. She is starting to make lists like a champ, though sometimes the list content makes me take deep breaths. She still wants to adopt babies from Haiti rather than have her own (because she found out that hurts). Camp Lakewood is quickly becoming her very favorite place to be, and she is like a completely different kid there! It’s awesome. I’m certain she will be a counselor there someday.
Wednesday Ada finally got to go to Science Central. She flitted from one exhibit to the next, loving the freedom of being the only one there to choose what we looked at. Then we took our packed lunches to a friend’s house, where she enjoyed some friend time and so did I! After that we went to work for a bit where she thoroughly enjoyed taking pictures with my phone, and then we went swimming. It was another good day.
Then Thursday. Oh, Thursday. I cleaned Grace and Eli’s bedrooms. And cleaned, and cleaned, and cleaned. I came out with … Read the rest
Today was recovery from yesterday. I slept in. At 8:30 Chad brought a tired, wrapped up Ada into our bed to rest with me. We chatted a little, then I asked if she was ready to get up. She said she wanted to rest some more. Not a problem. Then she tried to talk me into breakfast in bed – my bed. Nice try.
Puzzles, Wii, cartoons, and suddenly Chad was home for lunch and we were still in our jammies. So recovery was a success! We ate lunch with him, and she said, “If you need to go to … Read the rest
I had to wake Ada up at 7 to get our day started. I gently rubbed her forehead, she looked at me and said, “Good morning, momma.” Those are the first words out of her mouth every single day. And it makes me smile every single day. She wrapped her teeny arms all the way around my neck and I asked if she was ready to go to Kyra’s house. Kyra is her dear friend from Sonrise Preschool who moved away this spring and I planned a day trip for us to go see her. She said, “Yes, after I … Read the rest
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