Madeline: Mommy, these pancakes don’t understand me!
What she was really trying to say was, “I want to eat these pancakes, but they keep falling off my fork!”
Aaron & Jen, Kayla, Madeline, Savannah, Sophia, Jonah & Owen
- By Jen
Madeline: Mommy, these pancakes don’t understand me!
What she was really trying to say was, “I want to eat these pancakes, but they keep falling off my fork!”
- By Jen
Today at lunch Kayla was picking the flaxseeds off the crust of her bread when she said, “mmm, Mommy, these are so good. What are these?” I explained that they are flaxseeds, that they’re super healthy and that they can even help your skin not to itch so much. Motivated by my speech, Kayla was eager to try some plain, so I poured some on her plate from a container in the fridge. Madeline wanted the same. I lost count of how many times the girls said, “may I have more flaxseeds please?”
- By Jen
Tuesday was our first official day of school, though it wasn’t much different than most days this summer! Learning together is the norm for us, but it’s always fun to make a big deal out of the start of school in September. Carrying on our tradition we started last year, we camped in our tent (in our yard) Monday night. Once again, it was a perfect night for camping!
Tuesday morning we enjoyed blueberry pancakes for breakfast and then had Bible time together (complete with musical instruments for our praise song). Next we did chores before moving on to the rest of our school time. We recited the pledge of allegiance, and let me tell you, hearing a two-year-old saying the pledge was flat-out adorable! I wish I had videotaped it.
Here’s our first day of school picture:
Kayla used the camera for the first time and took a picture of me, the teacher:
Next was gym class outside—racing, jumping, galloping, throwing, kicking balls, doing somersaults, etc. We played a little wiffleball, but I think Daddy makes a better teacher when it comes to playing ball.
We wrapped up the school morning by building towers with the stacking cubes and practicing numbers, shapes and animals. Madeline said this was her favorite part.
In the afternoon Kayla and I did a reading lesson together, working on words with the short-o vowel sound. She’s turning into quite the little reader!
In the evening, while Aaron was at the men’s prayer service, we had a play date with some good friends at Jameson Park. It was a wonderful, fun-filled day.
- By Jen
For Madeline, anyway! Madeline decided that she wanted to be like Piggy and Ducky in No More Diapers for Ducky! by Bernette Ford. It’s been a week now, and with very few accidents, Madeline is a potty-training champ! Potty training was so much easier the second time around. Was it a breeze because Madeline was a different child than Kayla? Or perhaps could it be that the mommy had changed? I suspect it was largely due to the latter.
- By Jen
It’s always been interesting to me to look at kids’ fears and to try to figure out their origination. One of Madeline’s fears, however, has perplexed me. For some reason, Madeline is afraid of strange hair styles. She lost it today at church when she saw a guy with dreadlocks. Good thing she didn’t see the international student who has a mohawk!