Wednesday: well child

Yesterday Isaac had his well child checkup.  Yes, I forgot it around his birthday and when I called to set up a vision screen they reminded me that he needed this check up too.

He is 43.75", the 53%.
He weighs 40.5 lbs, the 39%
He could do all the skills that the doctor asked him to do.

I was reading the "All about your child at 5 years" when we got home, and noticed that it said they can speak with sentences of six to eight words.  I laughed as Isaac can go longer than that...much longer...and mentioned it to Isaac.  (I did try to count on the way home this evening and lost count in trying to pay attention and count the number of words.)  Isaac mentioned twice that we should make sure to tell the person that his sentences are longer than that.

Tuesday: access and pancakes

Amanda, teaching: blah, blah, blah.  If you put Harrison Ford on one line and Carrie Fisher on another and are looking for the Star Wars movies, you will not find the movies you are looking for.  blah blah blah

And then a student smiled and I realized what I had done.

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On the way to school today Joshua hoped he would get pancakes today.  On the way home from school he informed me that he didn't get pancakes.  When Ben asked him about his day he said he didn't get pancakes.  At night time when I asked him what his favorite thing was, he said there were no pancakes today.

Monday: change

Today we went from this...

to this...

I've been wanting to do this for a while, but didn't want to do it when it was cold as I wasn't sure how much hair I'd be removing.  Since it was a beautiful day today we were also able to do it outside and cut down on the mess.  And it was a mess!  I took a ton of hair off, but it was fun.  (I used the longest size in my kit, #8.  So it could go down more, but I think the length right now is actually pretty good.)

Sunday: 15 years

It's been 15 years since Mom died.  As is often the case lately, I don't have anything all that special to say.  It was a rather busy day, which was a bit annoying because I just felt disconnected more than normal.  Not sad with specific memories, just a general sad feeling.

Anyway, I found some pictures of her when she had a five year old and a 2 1/2 year old.  Because why not.

Saturday: running

The Tulip Race is coming up.  Isaac wants to win...but I told him that there would be big kids there too and we probably wouldn't win.  But we would do our best (and perhaps time ourselves).  He runs with such small steps.  I'm trying to get him to stretch his legs out a bit, but it didn't seem to go over very well.  He did it once and suddenly went fast, but I'm not sure he realized how much faster it was.

Run #1 was this morning with Joshua.  Isaac is so much faster than Joshua.  He took a few breaks to recharge his zooming legs, but ran most of the way to and from close beach (a total of .3miles).

Run #2 was supposed to be around the lake (about a mile).  I wasn't sure how far we'd get, but based on run #1 I thought we had a good chance of getting about half way.  However, three driveways down he tripped and did a face plant.  We walked most of the way home when he turned and ran back to close beach and then back home.  It's probably good...if we had gone around the whole lake I'm not sure who would have tired out first.

Friday: another first

Apparently I sang in my sleep last night.  Ben woke up to it and noted that I was singing, but not what song I was singing.  I wish I knew.

Wednesday: friends

Amanda: Joshua, do you have a best friend?
Joshua: no, just a brother.