Lately Isaac has been doing a great job of sounding out the first letter of words; I think I've mentioned that. Sometimes it surprises me because they just reached P at school, but it seems as though he can do the whole alphabet. The conversation usually goes like this...
Someone (me, Isaac, Ben): What does bear start with?
Isaac: bu-bu-bu B!
But then yesterday I asked him what frog started with and he said F. Instantly. No thinking, no sounding it out...he just knew it. It happened a few minutes later with another word too, but I forgot what it was.
In other news, there haven't been pomegranates at the store in a long while. I had been hoping to bring them to school for P week.
In other other news, I want to declare that I hate trying to find new items in the health and beauty aisles at Meijer. I can never do it. It tends to either take about ten minutes or three trips before I finally find them. It always boggles my mind because the aisles are well labeled. (Yesterday was saline. I left without it. But I finally saw nail polish remover...after about six months and getting it at the dollar store.)
Tuesday, February 9, 2016
Monday, February 8, 2016
Monday: patent
Congrats to Ben for his patent on "System and method for periodic lane marker identification and tracking".
Sunday: at home
We all stayed home today. It seemed the smart thing to do after yesterday, when no one was feeling very good. No one seems worse...Ben' wrist still hurts but isn't getting worse. Isaac seems to be recovered. Joshua has a runny nose and wanted his nebulizer medicine today, but it didn't really seem as though he needed it. (I hid it away so that he won't remember it tomorrow.) I took a wonderful nap this morning and started the pre-fever symptoms around 4pm, so Ben just told me to take some medicine. Now I feel fine. Yay medicine.
I just watched the last episode of Gilmore Girls. I started watching it when I didn't have any audiobooks to listen to and got hooked. The last episode was so sad...my boys are going to leave me too. And if they're anything like me, they'll look back but not for very long. (Sorry Dad. I love you!) Parenting does give one a different perspective, but I also will remember that they just won't have my perspective; they will just be excited about the next thing they'll be doing. And that is how it should be.
I just watched the last episode of Gilmore Girls. I started watching it when I didn't have any audiobooks to listen to and got hooked. The last episode was so sad...my boys are going to leave me too. And if they're anything like me, they'll look back but not for very long. (Sorry Dad. I love you!) Parenting does give one a different perspective, but I also will remember that they just won't have my perspective; they will just be excited about the next thing they'll be doing. And that is how it should be.
Saturday, February 6, 2016
Saturday: 4 for 4
Wednesday: Ben sprained his wrist and ended up at urgent care.
Thursday: Joshua came down with pneumonia.
Friday: Isaac didn't feel well after his shots.
Saturday: Amanda got a fever, Isaac still wasn't his normal self.
Sigh. Hopefully we'll either be done tomorrow or we'll end up at the vet's because Flurry doesn't want to miss out on the family action.
Friday, February 5, 2016
Friday: well child visits
Today we had our well child visits.
Isaac's weight is at the 40th percentile and height at the 47% percentile...right on track with what was measured last year. He hit all the milestones the doctor asked about, except for being able to hop on one foot. (And the milestones seemed surprising, actually. I feel as though he had hit most of them last year.) He got three shots and one of them bothered him all day; he fell asleep in the car when we were picking up Ben and he rarely does that anymore.
He dragged his quilt off his bed to use while watching TV.
Joshua comes in at the 4th percentile for weight and the 40th for height. We forgot to look at the charts, but I think the weight is similar to what it has been. Joshua's lungs sounded good, so the medicines are working. Joshua did not get his vaccinations since he's still sick. He also hit all the milestones that the doctor asked about.
Joshua seems to enjoy the mask medicine. We'll tell him it's time for the mask medicine and he goes right to the chair and tells us the nebulizer isn't set up. It makes me wonder if it makes him feel that much better or if he just likes the process. Ben was trying to get Joshua to write his name this evening and had Joshua say the letters back to him as they were writing. We heard very clear Js, Os, Ss and Hs.
Isaac's weight is at the 40th percentile and height at the 47% percentile...right on track with what was measured last year. He hit all the milestones the doctor asked about, except for being able to hop on one foot. (And the milestones seemed surprising, actually. I feel as though he had hit most of them last year.) He got three shots and one of them bothered him all day; he fell asleep in the car when we were picking up Ben and he rarely does that anymore.
He dragged his quilt off his bed to use while watching TV.
Joshua comes in at the 4th percentile for weight and the 40th for height. We forgot to look at the charts, but I think the weight is similar to what it has been. Joshua's lungs sounded good, so the medicines are working. Joshua did not get his vaccinations since he's still sick. He also hit all the milestones that the doctor asked about.
Joshua seems to enjoy the mask medicine. We'll tell him it's time for the mask medicine and he goes right to the chair and tells us the nebulizer isn't set up. It makes me wonder if it makes him feel that much better or if he just likes the process. Ben was trying to get Joshua to write his name this evening and had Joshua say the letters back to him as they were writing. We heard very clear Js, Os, Ss and Hs.
Time to pray!
Thursday, February 4, 2016
Tuesday: sick
Last night Joshua came down with croup. Isaac has had it before, although not quite this bad, but I kind of knew what to expect.
I brought him to daycare, but wasn't sure he would stay. The teacher suggested that he not stay, so my backup plan was to just bring him with me. He went in the carrier. During the morning I thought it wasn't a bad thing to keep him out of daycare...he was a bit sleepy and lethargic, but part of me thought he probably would have been ok.
Then, in the middle of the next class something happened and I decided he was not ok. I'm not really sure what it was...maybe a cough that sounded different? Anyway, I made a doctor's appointment.
We went and by that time I was so glad that we did. He had a temperature and was so lethargic and his breathing was rather laboured. Well, the NP gave him a steriod, a gas to breathe (I forgot what it was) and a prescription for more gas, the gas machine, and an antibiotic. Wowzers. We came home and gave him Tynenol.
By dinner time he had started to perk up. His breathing was still not so good, but he was running around and we even saw some smiles. (Not the best idea, but try telling that to a one year old.)
Here's hoping to a good night that isn't spent on the couch.
I brought him to daycare, but wasn't sure he would stay. The teacher suggested that he not stay, so my backup plan was to just bring him with me. He went in the carrier. During the morning I thought it wasn't a bad thing to keep him out of daycare...he was a bit sleepy and lethargic, but part of me thought he probably would have been ok.
Then, in the middle of the next class something happened and I decided he was not ok. I'm not really sure what it was...maybe a cough that sounded different? Anyway, I made a doctor's appointment.
We went and by that time I was so glad that we did. He had a temperature and was so lethargic and his breathing was rather laboured. Well, the NP gave him a steriod, a gas to breathe (I forgot what it was) and a prescription for more gas, the gas machine, and an antibiotic. Wowzers. We came home and gave him Tynenol.
By dinner time he had started to perk up. His breathing was still not so good, but he was running around and we even saw some smiles. (Not the best idea, but try telling that to a one year old.)
Here's hoping to a good night that isn't spent on the couch.
Tuesday, February 2, 2016
Tuesday: storm and Isaac quotes
We had a wonderful storm here tonight...a thunder storm. With rain. I love rain, and I love thunder storms, but it would have been a really, really cool snow storm. It makes me a little sad.
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Yesterday morning Isaac said, "I don't feel good when I have a baby in my tummy either." It was a bit funny because he was talking about conversations from Sunday, when we met with a bunch of people that are pregnant. (We're not.) (It was just a coincidence.) I was a bit surprised that he had picked up on the topic since he wasn't near us very much and that he remembered. But hey, he probably wouldn't feel good with a baby in his tummy.
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Yesterday morning Isaac said, "I don't feel good when I have a baby in my tummy either." It was a bit funny because he was talking about conversations from Sunday, when we met with a bunch of people that are pregnant. (We're not.) (It was just a coincidence.) I was a bit surprised that he had picked up on the topic since he wasn't near us very much and that he remembered. But hey, he probably wouldn't feel good with a baby in his tummy.
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As we were getting in the car this morning Isaac starting asking what would happen in the plants were covered with dust. I said they would probably die and started going into photosynthesis. Then he said the plants might turn bad and spiky. Hmm...ok. He kept talking.
Then, about three minutes into the conversation, Isaac said, "Perry was in the bag and Doofenshmirtz spread the dust and then the plants captured him but Perry escaped and came back to cut the plants and save Doofenshmirtz. Why does [Doofenshmirtz] call him Perry the platypus?"
"Sometimes people have more than one name, like you. You're Isaac and Puppy-dog"
"Yeah. I'm Isaac puppy dog and puppy dog. (Pause.) And sometimes Isaac."
For the record, we saw this episode of Phineas and Ferb about a month ago.
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