It has been one crazy week around here. We are fighting some kind of bug, so managing to get our school work done was pretty much the only thing we got done around here.
Except Levi. He has decided that those Emergen-C things taste awesome (helped along by a recent splurge of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory readings). He calls them Fizzy Lifting Drinks (But Not Really), and is quick to remind me that he'd like another. It must be helping, because while this bug seems to be picking the rest of us off one by one, he's building beach snack shacks and making movies.
He really, really wanted me to let him move on to making sound for these, but I told him not yet. I just couldn't add "learn another software program" to my list this week.
Plus I told him he needs to do some tweaking to his movie skills first! The beginning of this one is SO fast. When I asked him about it, he explained he was trying to show that they were traveling quickly.
So, obviously we need some tweaking. I told him how people who are really great at things got that way by studying the results of their work. What did they do that worked well? What could be better? How? We are going to sit down and write it out together.
...next week.
So last week our theme unit was survival. The boys loved it! We talked about food as fuel, layering clothes for winter, the importance of not panicing, went for a hike, and had a scavenger hunt.
For our hunt we went to REI (you could go to any outdoorsy type store) and tried to photograph things from the list. The idea was to familiarize the kids with some of the different types of survival gear, without feeling like we had to buy hundreds of dollars of gear!
Download REI Photo Scavenger Hunt. It's free, and you can practice taking photos or just cross things off. Have fun!
So, Eve saw a picture of a cute little pocket sized dolly, and she kept asking about it, so I made one while she rested. And then I made a few more (for the shop).
She was, really, really happy.
She decided Baby would fit in her teeny, tiny, toddler pockets. She was playing coy with me though, when I tried to get a picture (so I ended up with way too many)...
Check them out in My shop, if you want!
When Micah reached 2.5, we had Boxer Day. It was brilliant. So we had Potty Day for Eve (Panty Day just sounded a bit too much, even for me).
Potty Day is not that crazy pressure cooker of a day where you try to wake your diaper baby up and have him fully potty trained by the end of the day. Potty Day is a holiday, a mile-marker, a coming of beginning-to-be-a-big-kid- age day.
Potty Day is fun. We put it on the calendar. We count down to it. We open presents (big kid underwear, pull-ups for sleeping, and one special mama-made gift). We bake brownies (Micah had boxer-shaped cake, Eve had brownies 'cause the girl loves her chocolate). We even sing Happy Potty Day to You.
And days later (or perhaps hours, depending on the kid), when the celebrated child gets bored with the big kid thing and wants to go back to the lazy mama-can-change-my-bottom-and-I-don't-have-to-do-a-thing-diapers, you can point back in time and say, "Oh. But remember? We had Potty Day! You are a big kid now - diapers are for sleeping!" End of story.
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