More than Just Making It

Goals for Soren:
* keep up with Ambleside Online reading schedule for homeschool

* finish the container story for main lessons before moving to Illinois

* learn to resolve disputes with Carl

Goals for Carl:
* no hitting or kicking other kids during Yard Time

* obey "The Lego Rules" during Quiet Time

* don't keep brothers awake when they want to sleep

Goals for Sven:
* no shrieking!

* Table Time at 8:30 am

* stay on the rug during Rug Time

Goals for Leif:

* be put down for naps awake

* eat no more frequently than every 3 hours at night

* be delightful

Goals for Carolyn:
* pray and read the scriptures in the morning

* eat breakfast and lunch

* drink water, not Coke

Goals for Mom:
* supervise Carl constantly and enforce rules of polite interaction with other kids

* don't say "I don't care" when Soren tattles

* stay awake when feeding/soothing Leif at night

Comments

Oozaroo said…

There is nothing wrong with saying, "I don't care," when Soren tattles! Hahaha!

February 23, 2015 at 9:27 PM

Katherine Wolf said…

When are you moving to Illinois, and whereabouts?! I definitely want to see you when you get out here!

February 24, 2015 at 6:59 AM

Our Potty Training Journey

February 2010 GOAL: My initial goal was to introduce Soren to the toilet and make it a fun place to sit. I have to admit that I also hoped that we would have some fortunate "accidents" that would lead to potty training success. STRATEGY: My plan was to sit Soren on the toilet once a day and read him a couple of stories. If he peed, I was planning to give him a candy. THE BAD NEWS: The candy totally backfired. The one time that he peed on the toilet, I gave him a candy and he had a full-on tantrum begging for more. If I ever told him "When you pee on the potty, you can have a candy", he would begin screaming for the treat and be unable to focus on the toilet training. THE GOOD NEWS: Soren was not afraid of sitting on the big toilet. He actually really enjoyed it (when I was reading stories and not pimping rewards) and started asking to sit there any time his butt was bare. J June 2010 GOAL: My goal was to potty train Soren within the month of June

Milestone: New Syllable

This feels like such a silly thing to report about but it's got me tickled pink. Today Soren learned, what I feel, is the most important of all the English syllables: "ma". And it's about time. After months and months of hearing nothing but "da da da da" all day long, it's a refreshing change. I'm pretty sure that "da da" and "ma ma" don't correlate to anything in his mind yet. Still, he's that much closer to calling me his "mama" and I can't say the approximations don't warm my heart.

Cake for Breakfast!

I was getting dressed when it suddenly got very quiet out in the living room. Soren had been contentedly babbling a moment ago and now it was silent. I'm sure you can imagine me, rushing half-panted down the hall, hoping nothing horrible had happened. At our last visit, my pediatrician filled my mind with horror stories of infant death; now gruesome scenes were flipping through my mind like a slide show on speed. Or like the scary tunnel in "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory". Expecting a disaster, I was relieved when this was what I saw in the living room: The night before, I'd left a slice of left-over cake on the arm chair. We'd had company and Soren had been in bed. When I'd forgotten it at the end of the evening, it had been far from my son's greedy grasp. But this morning, when it was still left behind, it was within easy baby reach and too unusual for him not to explore. No wonder he was so quiet! He'd been experimenting with an unk

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