It definitely seems that January is flying by for our house. I thought I'd be able to keep up with a blog post a week for updating on the random happenings, funny sayings, and milestones. I'm thinking it will be more like two or three times a month.
And while suddenly January is almost gone, I'm wondering where it went and what on earth have we been doing?
For starters of course the kids all headed back to school the second week of January. That is definitely enough to keep us busy. Noah is doing well in his second grade studies. I am thankful for a teacher who continues to challenge him, keep us in the loop on how he's doing with school and behavior and all of that good jazz! Reading is still a favorite pass time; he prefers to read comics and graphic novels, right now Big Nate is among the favorites. I'm the mom who keeps pushing him though and so for his daily reading time for homework he gets to read a chapter book that will challenge him. So he's working on Tom Sawyer that he got for Christmas. It's fun hearing his thoughts on the book.
Josh started with a new teacher in January for kindergarten as a class was added at his school and he wanted to volunteer to switch classes because he likes adventures and meeting new people. He's loving his class and new teacher and enjoying the adventure of something new. He also loves that he's able to see his teacher from last year and give her big hugs! He is getting stronger with his sight words and math skills. I'm also getting to volunteer in his class once a week - which is lots of fun.
The boys are both practicing for AWANA games with Mike. Their Saturdays are full of practice for the Sparks-A-Rama games and then waiting with Mike while he coaches the T&T games in the afternoon. AWANA games and practices meant we took a break from team sports for this season, while the boys are missing basketball season it is nice to have a free evening once in a while around here.
Addy's still loving school. It's nice that we are getting more and more information from her about her day. We have always been kept in the loop about what they were working on in class and speech, but she's so much more talkative about her friends. She'll tell us all about what they did at recess and who was wearing a new shirt. Her bus driving in the afternoon tells me almost every day that she's a chatter box and sings on the way home.
Tonight while I was putting her to bed, she was going on and on, I gave her a hug and told her okay time to be quiet and get to sleep. The poor girl got tears in her eyes, when I asked her what was wrong she just looked at me with big crocodile tears. I inquired a bit more and asked her what was the matter, was she sad? She said yes; I asked her why and she said "I just need to talk more." Oy! This girl! She's going to be a chatterbox for sure.
Mike seems to be pretty busy with work this month as well. I've been pretty busy this month, a few regular sessions and then I did a casting call for newborn clients after taking a lighting course this last month. I learned so much from the class, and there is nothing better after learning than getting to put it into practice. Thankfully the kids and Mike were good sports and let me do some practicing on them too.
