Wednesday brag day 3/25

[macchiatto]

Anyone mind if I start this? I don't see a post yet today.

Last week, DS's PT discussed with us her plan for tapering off sessions. She put together a chart with 12 goals that he and I will work on together between her sessions, which will decrease to EOW. DS has always been most resistant with PT activities, but last night he was *so* motivated to work on his skills and really wants to reach "mastery" of them. I realized a little late that he didn't understand why succeeding in 3/24 attempts of one skill wasn't "mastery" if 3/4 is; "But 24 is a bigger number, so that should be better!" I had fun trying to explain that to a Kindergartener ... but it was great to see how hard he was working and he has mastered 2 of the goals already!

[shellsbells]

The other day DD was asked if she was ready for tubie time aka her bolus feed and she said no eat and made the sign for eating. She then ate half a bowl of mac & cheese.

[cam]

I blew LO a kiss, which is not something I do often and have never prompted him to do, but he blew one back.

Our recent conversation...
Me: Would you like to play a game?
LO: Yeah!
Me: What game would you like to play?
LO: ::points to Don’t Break the Ice::
Me: ::starts to take it off shelf::
LO: No, Daddy’s ears. ::gestures like he is plugging his ears::
He remembered that MH doesn’t like how noisy the game is, so we only play it when he is not home. LO hadn’t asked to play it in quite a while other than when MH has been at work, so I am surprised he remembered and thought of MH. MH was in the garage working on something and would be for a while at that point, but LO insisted on picking a new game because of Daddy’s ears.

[olivegoose]

DD's preschool teacher stopped me during pick up today to chat with me. They have 3 class "levels" there- 3's, 4's, and pre-K. We registered DD for the 4's class for next year because she was a few months too young for the pre-K cut off. Pre-K is 4 half days a week, 4's is 2 half days.

Her teacher stopped me because she said that she and the assistant teacher had discussed it and they want to put DD into the pre-K class next year! The program director and pre-K teacher observed her in class and agreed. She said that she thinks it will be a great environment for her and that DD would get "bored quickly" in the 4's class.

[anintrovert]

We went out of town for a wedding (DH was a Groomsman) and then tacked a few days on since it's Spring Break. DS did great with the change in routine and late nights. We brought an Ipad and head phones for the long running rehearsal dinner and reception (there were 3 babies and a 3 year old, no other kids). He did great.

Then we took him skiing for the first time. He did a half day lesson in a class with only 4 kids and had fun. I think he might already be a better skier than his dad, LOL.

[funchicken]

I think DD1 is having a math breakthrough. Yesterday she told me she had had trouble with her math lesson in school, so I offered to help her (they're online). She was calmly reading through the word problems and coming up with the corresponding number sentences instead of panicking and saying "I don't know" before she even reads the problem. One of the girls in her reading group is really good at math, and that has boosted her interest in it, I think.

[mcribster]

Last week DS slept/ate and did just about everything in his spiderman costume. I feared he was getting stuck. However, yesterday he decided he wanted to be peter pan and went out in search of green shoes, a green dress (LOL), and a green hat. I'm glad his play is branching out on a weekly basis now!

[akafred]

Char got her Tae Kwon Do belt back! It was taken for the second time this year before Spring Break sometime. She takes a "little tigers" class offered at her school, and they have a separate belt progression from the big kids "real" TKD, so she is currently a blue belt. Next is brown, then red, then black (I thought that sounded backward but she insists it is brown then red). Anyway, it was taken for poor behavior in school. She had to earn it back before next Tuesday because that is when she will test for brown, and they won't let her test if she doesn't have it back.

She has been so over the top awful and disorganized since we got home from my IL's Friday. School has been so bad too. But she came home Tuesday worried about the belt thing (class is Tues and Thurs). Her teachers told her if she went a whole day doing what she was told the first time without talking back or having to be told a second time, she could get her belt back. At first she wasn't going to even try on Wed since the TKD masters aren't there on Wed (she is shrewd, she is), but I convinced her it would count.

She did great yesterday! Not only did she not have to be "reminded" about the goal, but she volunteered to scrub a table and actually scrubbed two. I hope it sticks!

[mcribster]

uhoh. DH let him go to school in his peter pan costume. Yikes. I hope the kids are cool with that. I would have NEVER have let him do that

[KC thepouchh8r]

Mar 26, 2015 7:54:45 GMT -5 mcribster said:

uhoh. DH let him go to school in his peter pan costume. Yikes. I hope the kids are cool with that. I would have NEVER have let him do that

My son went to preschool with a hot pink pedicure and open toed shoes and the kids were fine and thought it was cool. Dressing up in preschool isn't an issue. I see kids like that all the time.

[spooko]

My NT kid wore cat ears to preschool last month. Apparently everyone rolled with it because I got to see a picture of her in class with them still on from that day. I wouldn't be worried about Peter Pan

[akafred]

Meh, costumes in preschool are totally not a thing.

[olivegoose]

I wish our preschool allowed costumes! They don't because they've had too many issues with potty accidents from hard to get off costumes

[litebright]

DD1 has been such a treat on spring break. She and DD2 are going to a half-day camp at the local butterfly museum in the mornings so I can work, then we're doing fun things in the afternoons and DD1 has been SO appreciative and grateful, thanking me and giving me hugs for doing things like taking them to the zoo, or to Barnes & Noble or Build a Bear to use up gift cards that they've been sent.

This morning, she and DD2 were arguing over whose stuffed animal was the prettiest and they ACTUALLY managed to work through it together and get back to getting along, with only a reminder from me that they were each allowed to have opinions. OMG. Usually that kind of spat requires far more intervention.