January

 

Thanks for the new Jammies, Aunt Tiffany and Uncle Jason!

Carter has been asking to wear them every night.

January is here, and with it the extreme cold.  I do not enjoy taking the kids out when it barely reaches the freezing point for a high.  So instead, we hunker down and enjoy our new toys.  Dawson is so insistent all day long "play choo choos mama, play choo choos mama."  I feel bad because the other two are asking for me to play legos or baby, and I have to put a limit on the choo choo time.  

By the way, if you happened to be in Giant Eagle today and wondering why I was walking around singing the theme song to Thomas the Train to Dawson over and over and over again, it is because once again his persistence pays off.  The minute I stop singing he yells at me:  Sing Thomas Mama, Sing Thomas Mama, Sing Thomas mama.  He will look at nothing, talk about nothing else until I sing the Thomas song.  The things parents do for their kids!

This past week the kids found a new favorite pretend game: library.  Carter makes library cards for everyone and then we all come in and check out a book.  My kids really have no chance to be anything but a dork, do they?  His writing skills are really expanding and he has moved into the transitional stage of writing.  This just means that instead of random strings of letters he is demonstrating an ability to write the sounds in words, using invented spellings.  Today he posted a sign on our garage door for Mike to read when he got home:  Tn es the fir wk pty.  {Tonight is the fire work party.}  I didn't help him with this message at all!  Pretty proud of this little guy!  I also need to add by fireworks he means a bag full of shredded paper that he tosses into the air and it spills the paper everywhere.  There were no fireworks going on at our house. 

I realize that sometimes my blog probably sounds like an MFE or progress report card, but I can't help it! 

Then our little Roover.  Lately she does not want her picture taken, AT ALL.  I will ask her come here, let me take your picture.  Then she turns and runs away from me and shouts no.  But, if I say Carter or Dawson I want to take your picture she immediately runs into the frame and wants to be in the picture.  Now I know the secret!

While I'm talking about January, it might be a good time to write down my resolutions.  Hopefully by putting them on my blog, I will hold myself a little more accountable.  So, here they are:

• Continue with my cleaning schedule that I started in the fall.  Sometimes it is hard to stick to, but everything runs smoother if I do.
• Watch my sarcasm around the kids.  I have to emulate the person I want my children to be.
• Keep on doing my yoga and eating real food!  Christmas time was rough for me {I think I gained 6 pounds!} but I feel so much better when I'm consistent. With Mike's blimp diet, this has proven to be very easy so far.
•  Read and take pictures.  I guess I should set some kind of measurable objective to this, but I just want to do it more than I have in the past year. 

Well, I think that is quite enough.  And I better get off the computer because I have books to read, a cleaning schedule to work on and maybe even get to bed at a decent time!