A Day in the Life of Soren

6:34 - breakfast
Related Words: cereal, juice, milk, spoon, bowl, eggs, pancake, toast, Spam, banana, apple, please, more, thank you, sit down, chair

7:12 - free play
Related Words: crayon, paper, car, tree, [alphabet]

7:49 - story time
Related Words: book, church, elephant, Pop, socks, baby, dog, kiss, please

8:10 - dressed
Related Words: pants, socks, shirt, stop it, diaper, butt, toes, feet, hand, head

8:37 - room play
Related Words: toys, phone, car, square, circle, oval, star, triangle, sky, moon, house, boat

9:19 - Soren & Mom playtime
Related Words: Mommy, stop, go, blanket

10:07 - getting ready to go
Related Words: shoes, coat, hat, let's go, door, knock, outside

10:19 - car ride
Related Words: car, keys, O's, go, alphabet, please

10:52 - outing
Related Words: walk, stroller, cookie

12:22 - lunch
Related Words: cracker, cheese, bread, water, please, thank you

1:31 - nap

3:26 - still napping

4:07 - awake
Related Words: stairs

4:47 - cartoons
Related Words: please, chair, square, B, T, Z, C, go

5:10 - dinner
Related Words: Daddy, fork, knife, sticks, plate, please, thank you, touch, chair, sit down, bite, more

5:58 - making popcorn
Related Words: popcorn, up, please

6:03 - family movie night
Related Words: Rattatoille, ABC's, chair, popcorn, more

7:34 - bath
Related Words: yak, turtle, duck, lion, stop it, wet, dry, pajamas, zip, snap, towel

7:47 - brushing teeth
Related Words: paste, teeth, brush, open, close, please

7:49 - scriptures and prayer
Related Words: God, prayer, Amen

7:52 - book and bed
Related Words: Daddy, book, dinosaur, blanket, sleep, [numbers]

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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 S...

What Works for Us: Room Time

I've decided to do a new series of posts on how I make parenting work for us. Every parent does it differently--which is great!--but I have a hard time keeping my discoveries to myself. The things I do may not work for anyone else but I want to record them and remember them. Hopefully, it will also help me vent my soap-box-y-ness so that I'm not always imposing my ideas on other people. That will be what "What-Works-for-Us Posts" are about. One of the things that we have always done, but has made a HUGE difference in the move from one to two children, is Room Time . When Soren was 6 months old, I started having him play alone (in a safe place) every day for a few minutes. At first it was only five minutes in the port-a-crib but we quickly worked up to fifteen, then thirty. At that time, I used those precious minutes to do housework or relax on the couch. When I was pregnant with Carl, Soren would play alone for about an hour in his room and I would usually tak...

February 10 - 16

* I thoroughly enjoyed reading Skyward. * Soren beat Megaman 1 without dying. * Carl was swamped with art homework. His teacher assigned him 5 mini-paintings, 30 gradients, and 1 shading. * Sven finished reading the Frog and Toad treasury. * Leif talked a lot about wanting to make a friend. * Richard got to listen to lots and lots of read-a-louds.

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