Well, the one person who reads my blog faithfully, my Auntie Marcia, has reminded me that it has been a while since I posted. I have a few posts in me, but thought I would give an update on the girls and what has been going on in our lives recently.
Doodle: We went to our second conference at school and she is doing great. She loves school and is making friends. She still has the love/hate relationship with this one little boy. The teacher knows all about our family, and asked if she might be so fascinated because he was brown like her Newbie. We thought about it, but she doesn't seem so fascinated with the brown girls in her class, although some are friends. We actually think she's so interested because she doesn't hang out with many boys--and there are only three boys in her class. This one happens to sit at her table. We really like her teacher--the homework calendar for this month included some Black history items, so we are so excited.
Doodle came home with some valentines from her valentines day party, so that was good. One never knows, but she was excited with her haul. Of course, the night before she tells me that she needs to bring a box for her valentines, so we are up late covering a box with wrapping paper and stickers. Typical. That in addition to the packet we need to do for student of the week, the usual homework, and reading. Kindergarten is so hard!
Doodle loves the Olympics, and will watch until we let her fall asleep on the couch (don't judge, she doesn't have school today). Even though she's been drawing pictures of ice skaters, she likes to watch the skiing best. She's particularly excited to see bobsledding, because it has the word "sled" in it. She spent the afternoon sledding off of the back stairs of our deck.
MooBear: Poor Moo had the croup and then got a double ear infection. Thank god for the pink medicine. It's weird that she had the croup at 5 years old, but whatever. At least it wasn't strep. About half of her preschool class was out last week with step. All of our three girls eventually got the croup, but Moo was the sickest.
Lately she's been really into drawing and making valentines and art. Her drawing/fine motor is really coming along. She's also very into legos. I've been telling the girls I'm not particularly good at legos. Dan makes these great things-- a crocodile, a shark, a plane. I have a complex. So this weekend I made a house. Moo told me it was just "ok" Nice blow to the ego there.
Newbie: What can I say? She's a handful. Her language is exploding. New words include: cool, what? (said with attitude), butt (thanks to Doodle), cocoa and mine. When Dan went to wake her up a few days ago, she responded with, "What???!!"
She's happy and stubborn and fun all at the same time. She's been sleeping better and for that I am grateful. She no longer wants to eat in her high chair, so I'm constantly trying to put food in front of her. Her weight has dropped a bit since she has become mobile, so I'm trying to keep her calories up.
At her last pediatrician appointment, she peed on the length measuring thing, shredded the paper on the table and escaped nude into the hallway when the nurse came in to ask us a question. Dr. Laura told me I finally had my boy.
The nice thing when Newbie was sick was that she would actually cuddle with us for more than 5 seconds. So much fun for me!
We've been working on her hand strength, so I got her a water table and those little animals that squirt so she can work her hands. She loves it!! We've tried playdough too, but she's afraid of it.
We got her new shoes, and her feet are two different sizes. She had a full on temper tantrum in the shoe store, which was fun. She wanted to go out in the mall. She would step outside the carpeted area of the store and then look back at me and start to walk out. I'd then have to carry her back screaming. If I focused on Doodle's shoes she would go out again. I eventually worked out a system with the shoe woman, that I would focus on one of the other girls and if she saw the Newbie try to escape, she would let me know. At the end, the saleslady complimented me on my patience. Sigh.
As for me, I got the croup, too, but am finally feeling better. I'll write more soon!
