Baby G

He gives even better baby kisses now. He used to hold his mouth open & hold still, waiting for a kiss. Now he leans in & gives big open-mouth kisses right on your cheek, or your nose, or your chin. He grins when he does it.

He also can crawl very fast now, and will chase you happily around the house. He tracked down J in the bedroom, C in the bathroom, the girls in the playroom, etc. He loves to be with people.

He should go in for allergy testing next month. He keeps getting more rashes, today hives, so I really hope we get definitive results on allergens he reacts to next month.

Ummm... cool but ?

Feeding baby G tonight. He ate for a bit and than SAID, "Done." I stared for a minute and asked C what she thought G said. "He said all done!" He then signed milk and refused any more food. So. Ummm. Yeah. ? I'm sure it's a total fluke, but... whoa.

Shameless brag

I taught A the basic idea of division today with a couple of problems, and then posed the question of "What is 10/2?" to her. She knows her addition to ten fairly well so I thought, why not. Her answer? "I thiiiink it should be 5." She grabbed the felt 5 for the felt board & stuck it on as the answer.

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They are both doing well in swim class too, but that was the wow moment for today. :D

Fun day!

Swim lessons started today. C fell in the water in the first two minutes, went under--and popped back up, desperately swimming backwards above the surface for a couple yards before her teacher got her. Wow! Then they went back to normal stuff like assisted back floats and blowing bubbles with their noses.

I went in to the girls' bedroom to see what they were doing. C was laying down with her eyes closed (pretending to sleep). A told me C had bellybutton cancer and was already asleep for surgery, and A was using her glasses case as the laser to cut open the bellybutton and get to the cancer. I kid you not. LOVE!!

C tried her 3rd gymnastics facility today. WIN! C actually liked the hardcore one the best, but she still said this one was "super fun" and she's happy about going back. This one was much more relaxed & gentle in its environment, but still great at teaching. The older kids were all relaxed but working hard, with fabulous technique. They are a very successful competition gym but they appear extremely competent rather than demanding & a bit crazy, lol. Much more of a learning environment with less stress but high expectations. And it's cheaper!!

The girlies having fun

We are looking for a gymnasium for C. We tried one that was not a good fit (mostly playing around to music, very little actual gymnastics or instruction). We do that on our own, lol. C had fun but said it was only a little fun and that she didn't want to go back. She loved one particular part but that seemed to be it. Today we tried a more serious gymnasium, a full hour of actual gymnastics instruction, geared to kids her age but expecting them to do it. She did fabulously and loved it. Her favorite was "everything" and she wants to go back. It is a competitive gym so it looks a bit intimidating at the higher levels. I also want to try another gym before we decide, but she did very well today.

A watched surgery (real) for 1.5 hours yesterday! She loves her science. She also is working on her art. For geography she turned a picture of a honeybee into a cutout puppet on a stick with toilet paper wings for the proper texture/color. Today she made a dragonfly in 3-D. She put a pipe cleaner through a long straw for the body and tail (the bent end), made two pipe cleaner legs in the back and 4 on the front, and made two large wings of blue pipe cleaners (two per wing) with yellow pipe cleaner stripes (so it has "yellow and clear striped wings"). Awesome!!

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J is working very hard & aceing his classes so far. After a scary previous encounter with biology, in a complete turnaround he loves it now. He spent a long time on Saturday looking at many substances/items under the microscope with A, and he wants to buy a 1500x light microscope that incorporates a camera so we can study a lot more with it and take pictures for further study. A and I are very excited about this plan. :D We also spent this morning discussing possible God-directed evolution scenarios re: Adam & Eve & their immediate children & evolved hominids. I love that man.

J's mom's dog of 14 years is dying, and will be put down on his mom's birthday tomorrow if she makes it through the night. Sadness.

The girls graduated preschool! They each performed a talent. C sang her favorite Dr. Horrible song (most of the guy part of "My Eyes"). A read a story she wrote, and then sang part of another Dr. Horrible song, "Brand New Day." The first part is a fast monologue so she hummed that part.

G is now crawling, sitting, pulling himself up on furniture & people, cruising around furniture, bracing on the floor with his legs straight, and now he's letting go of things and standing for a second or three before leaning towards a person to pick him up (before he falls over). His favorite food is fresh raspberry. He now has object permanence, loves peek-a-boo, and will follow you around the house (calling, "Muh-muh!" if it's after me. He also says, "da-da" but I'm not sure if it's for J or just because it sounds fun). He also freaks out in the car a bit more because he KNOWS you're there & you're not coming to save him, WHY????!!!!!!!. Poor kid.

Going grey

Nothing like having C and her kindred spirit 4-year-old friend disappear inside of 30 seconds at a park, be missing for at least 20 minutes, have J on his way & my friend ready to call the cops, and then have another friend's kid find them skinny dipping in a little fountain pool without a fountain hidden in a bunch of trees at the back of the park (laying down because the water was warmer than the air and so the very tops of their heads were all that was visible and that only from maybe 25 feet away if you were looking right at them).