Gym fun

This was a fun school outing we got to go on. One of the ladies in our group had "connections" okay it was a relative, but we got to have some open gym time to ourselves. Holly loved the trampoline and even tried the rope swing more the once. She was afraid to jump into the foam pit but after once it wasn't so scary anymore.

(I was sad my batteries were dying so every time I tried to take a video my camera died).

This is me climbing the rope wall. I am afraid of heights so this was a huge deal for me. The rope wall doesn't look that high but it was!

My friend took a picture of my swinging out on the rope swing, not the prettiest picture, but it was fun! Holly wants to know when we can go back.

Waiting.....

This last week I got pink eye, this weekend I had the flu. I am now waiting for the last thing to happen. My mother always said things happens in threes. I hope it will just be a broken nail. Hey, a girl can hope, can't she!

Beware!

I have pink eye, beware!

I just did homework with Josh and I need a nap!

Josh didn't have an assigned homework today, so I thought that I would make some stuff up. On the weekly reminders to the parents it said to work on sight word and math using money. Well he already knows his sight words, though we could have worked on handwriting. So out came the money. Now he knows the names of the penny, nickel and dime, but doesn't know which one belongs to which coin, he just knows those are names of money. He likes to through in coin also.

All I can say is we are both fortunate to leave the experience alive. I could feel myself getting tense and annoyed that he just couldn't get it. I finally remembered an enrichment that Sister Bryce did saying everyone learns different. So, I tried word association. That only worked for the quarter. But then, we did a chant. A lot more got through. I drew some pictures of stuff for him to buy. When he bought the last thing, A Woody doll worth 26 cents, he was able to figure out which coins to give me and could tell me there names.

Will he remember it tomorrow, who knows but we climbed that hill today and will have sore muscles tomorrow.

Not going to get mother of the year award

So poor Josh never gets any posts it seems like. Holly is always home with me.

Anyways, Josh and I read a book each to each other after school. The other day Josh read a 64 page book. And we're not talking the 2 or 3 word per page variety, but the 2 or 3 lines per page. Unfortunately, I am always sleepy when we do this. Yes, you guessed it. I feel asleep in the middle of his book. Luckily he didn't notice. Poor kid, I really am proud of him.

Back on track!

This week I had a great lose at weigh in. I am back on track and have 4 pounds to loose and then I reach life time at Weight Watchers. Wahooo!

What should I grow?

I am really excited to plant a garden this year, both vegetable and flower.

I was driving in the car with Holly and I asked her what she wanted me to plant in our garden. (We have a lot of meaningful talks in the car:P). She didn't understand at first so, I told her mommy could grow tomatoes. Ohhhh! She wanted to know if I could grow banana's. No, they grow in Hawaii and humid places. So she wanted to know if I could grow oranges. Yeah. How about avocados? Uh, probably not. What about applesauce? I explained that comes from apples and they grow on trees. I told her we could do cucumbers and green beans. She asked what about salad. I said yeah, we can grow lettuce and she said NO, SALAD. Oh, okay we can grow salad. Then Holly asks what about animal crackers? I told her they come from wheat and I wasn't planning to plant those.

I think now both Holly and I are excited about the garden, though I think she would be happier with the things you could grow somewhere tropical. She can do that when she is grown up.