She wanted to share a snack with her baby.
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We’ve been around the world with speech evaluations for Teague. He’s always been more difficult to understand than Alex (who enunciated extremely well from day one). Teague’s preschool did a free screening and Teague’s speech was noted as a concern. We decided to go through the public schools for potential services. This required another screening and then an evaluation. It was finally determined that Teague doesn’t have enough of a problem to qualify for an IEP, but they did offer him services. He goes once a week to work on his “s” blends. It was determined his other problem sounds fall within development guidelines.
Before preschool:
After preschool:
After swim class:
I have wanted a kids’ art wall for years. Our last house had the perfect place, but we moved before we could really tackle the project. This house has a perfect empty wall in our playroom. I bought the frames before Christmas and Wade filled them with cork and got them hung on the wall last week. Now I just need to find the “right” pushpins and the kids’ art work can fill the frames!
The latest in tandem sliding.
Alex had library at school yesterday and leaves the books at home for the entire week. These guys love the latest books he brought home. They couldn’t wait to finish their snack so they could look at the book.
I can’t imagine where she gets this from…
Kaitlyn’s been a fan of popcorn for a long time (see here), but today she realized how much fun it is to crumble. Madison loved this game (and thankfully ate 80% of what was on the floor). I did not.
I am starting to have trouble letting Kaitlyn finish her naps in the afternoons. We currently have one activity that almost always means I have to wake her before she is ready and next week we’ll add another to our schedule. It’s no fun being the third.
Teague has the cutest phrase for tears – “cry water.” Any time there happen to be tears and he has been wearing his glasses, he’ll come to me and ask me to clean off the “cry water.” The picture below has tears, but from a nap, not sadness!
We have a lot planned for tomorrow so we decided to start celebrating Wade’s birthday today – with Rendezvous ribs, birthday cookies, and a few presents.
The snow is definitely melting, but today one of the Moms brought sleds to our after school playdate! The boys loved it!
These boys and their after school snow fun – it’s almost every day!
Kaitlyn got this slide for Christmas and has loved it. I wasn’t surprised to see her climbing up the slide, but I didn’t realize it would happen within the first few weeks of having it…
Alex had to go with me on a few errands this afternoon because he needed a haircut. One of our stops was at the GAP to buy new jeans for Teague (I swear we have one pair left with knees intact). I wanted to check out the little girl section while we were there and Alex saw kitten mittens and wanted to buy them or Kaitlyn. How do you say no? Thankfully she loved them and wanted to wear them immediately.
I can literally see the wheels turning in her head. She heard me say “no” in regards to opening the china cabinet (which of course doesn’t have child locks), but she really wants to get inside.
(For the curious – she did open the door. She did get in trouble. There were a few tears. Then she found a bouncy ball and chased it all over the house for the next 20 minutes while giggling uncontrollably.)
And sometimes you turn around to find your son lounging upside down at the bottom of the slide.
Alex couldn’t wait to pick Teague up from school today and play with his friends in the snow again. Today the boys perfected the penguin slide.
We had an odd Monday today. Teague started back to school and Alex is off till Thursday. We dropped Teague at his class and then came home to do a little playing.
Then we picked Teague up and of course stayed to play a little in the snow with Teague’s friends. (Note that only one boy is wearing snow pants – not one of my boys!)
Sunday – football and naps.
We decided to celebrate New Year’s Eve with our Milwaukee friends a few days late. (The kids didn’t mind and we all love an excuse to get together!) Here’s a comparison of our first New Year’s Eve celebration in 2012 and now….
The kids bounced all over the house from playroom to video games.
I walked into the living room to find Kaitlyn in the corner reading to her baby doll. Sweetness.