L
Newest Achievements:
-She can read. It's amazing to me how well she can read already. She still needs help, mostly just encouragement to sound it out but getting better and better every day. Her latest report card says her literary understanding is far above level, as well as her ability to sound words out and her writing. She's great at addition and subtraction but still occasionally struggles with forming her numbers correctly. (but not her letters, seems strange to me but just trying to encourage). She constantly brings home a new art project to show me and her favorite part of school is "stations", especially when she gets to work on the computer.
-Up next? Doc says time to get her eyes checked, there may be glasses in her near future.
Favorites:
-activities: dance, reading, go to the movies, swimming, playing with sisters
-foods: pizza, ice cream, pancakes, cookies/all sweets, strawberries with fruit fluff, nutella/banana sandwiches
-toys: my little ponies, dress up clothes, legos, her Barbie house, books
-movies/shows: Frozen, Matilda, Barbie movies
My favorite moments:
-the way she wants to take care of her little sisters
-the way she's so sincere and sweet, she wears her heart on her sleeve. she's eager to please and so genuinely caring about everyone else.
-when she comes racing off the bus, so excited to tell me about her day
A
Newest Achievements: her teacher says she's doing great at school. She's brilliant but especially in the last few weeks has gotten better at taking turns, listening, following directions, etc. (instead of struggling to contain her endless energy)
-Up next? she can't wait to go to the drive in theater again. and maybe a soccer league.
Favorites:
-activities: go to the park, play with chalk, play with friends, tea parties, picnics, coloring pictures, building forts
-foods: ramen, rice, scrambled eggs, chicken pot pie, tomato soup/grilled cheese
-toys: art easel, play kitchen, stuffed animals, board games, look n find books
-movies/shows: Frozen, Tiana, Rapunzel, How to Train Your Dragon, "Raining Gumballs" (Bedtime Stories)
My favorite moments:
-"mom, what's my job? Can I do a job?" she loves to help me!
-her imagination. she tells stories and play pretend games with such vivid, incredible detail
-she's leaders of the pack. She's charming and can convince anyone to come play with her. she's also a huge flirt, generally preferring 15-17 year old boys.
E
Newest Achievements: potty trained! easiest child to potty train of the three. probably a lot to do with having big sisters.
-Up next? hopefully sleeping through the night and staying in her own bed again.
Favorites:
-activities: following her sisters around, cuddling mom, making a mess. Also, taking care of her babies, reading books, playing at the park
-foods: fruit snacks, goldfish, fruit leather, chicken nuggets, pancakes
-toys: Minnie Mouse (with clip on dresses), sit n spin, daddy tools, her little people castle, her army of stuffed animals (especially a nightlight turtle that sings her to sleep)
-movies/shows: Olaf (how she asks for "Frozen"), Mickey Mouse Clubhouse, Monsters University ("my kowski"=Mike Wasowski, one of the characters)
My favorite moments:
-she's incredibly polite and thoughtful and considerate. Her sweet "no thank you"s and "mommy you ok?"s and "thank you for my dinner"s are so sincere that they make me melt!
-when we are grocery shopping she sits in the seat and jabbers away. sometimes if I'm not paying enough attention to her, she will wrap her legs around my waist and pull me in closer to hug me while I study prices or whatever.
-the way she dances (she's got some crazy wiggle in her hips!)
-she loves to help me unload the dishwasher. and sort socks.
Our usual day:
I wake L up at 7:15 to get ready for school. The bus picks her up at 8:10 and A/E/me get ready for the day. We drop A off at school and head for the gym/errands. L gets home at 11:30 and we pick A up at noon. Once a week we have friends over for lunch and playdate. Now that it's warm, we go to the park 2-3 times a week. We play, do our chores and have a quiet time movie where E falls asleep on the couch, L watches the whole movie, resting and cuddling quietly and A struggles to sit still for that long. I try to get work done. Some evenings we go back to the gym or have something fun and social to do. We eagerly wait for Daddy to come home and usually eat later than we should (6:30-7). We start getting ready for bed (baths, jammies, teeth, potty) and settle in for stories, scriptures, happy&sads and prayers. Daddy usually does that part and if he's on the road we try to call him and include him over the phone. Lights out by 8:30 (instead of the 8:00 that I wish we could do) and then I sit in L's room to keep her in bed until she falls asleep. I then consider doing something productive and usually just putter, getting minimal work accomplished until I crash too.
except for weekends. those are chaos.
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