Annmarie is officially the big "3." Make sure you say "big" because if you make any reference to the opposite she will let you know. On Saturday some kind of bug hit her full on. She had a 102 fever, was lethargic in and out of fever breaking with Tylenol, and just needed Mom. Paul was at the Klondike so the children and I had a quiet morning watching cartoons. Sometime Saturday night I think her body got a handle of it and she had maintained a low fever on and off through Sunday. Paul stayed home with her from church, but we had a fun birthday day. We made her a princess cake (that is her name now if you ask her), opened presents, played stick the heart on the princess necklace?, the animal game, bubbles, and had a little dance party. While we were at church she was quite entertained by Paul as well. She got to take a bath, play 2 games, read a princess story, and watch excerpts from General Conference (Paul said there is a nice recap video now on the Church website that highlights some of the General Conference talks and recommends it highly).
Other things this week...
One fun thing this week was the book we read with the children. Their school is part of the Read to Succeed program sponsored by a large automotive dealership in Utah. The whole year has had many literary activities. Most recently, they sent home a wrapped present with one member of the family. It was the book called Frindle by Andrew Clements. It is hilarious! Paul couldn't put it down! We kept catching him reading ahead. They are going to have an activity associated with the book sometime soon. Also, the older grades were able to have an assembly with Brandon Mull, author of the Fablehaven series, and through the whole school year they have been keeping track of how many minutes they read. They do this normally, but for every 200 minutes they get to enter entries into a drawing. At the end of the year they will be awarding bicycles to some lucky kids.
On Monday the children had school off. Bianca was a little sick, but we had fun making a cardboard fort. The children played in it for 2 hours until it kept falling over. Not the builders fault! The structural integrity of the materials was weakened by having been previously wet :) That night we went to the library for a little production of "School House Rock." It rocked! The kids loved it and Paul and I were transported back in time. Ahhh... 3 is the magic number.
Wednesday we had Parent-Teacher conferences. The children are all doing very well. Cannon is reading at the second grade level. His teacher says he keeps trying to write in cursive and do multiplication. This is what Bianca has been working on and he watches everything she does closely. Bianca is doing well. She has developed that anti-math mindset even though she is good at it. Paul has been reviewing her times tables with her and makes it fun. She goes through lots of paper in her freetime and I am going to send a few reams to school so her teacher's supply doesn't get depleted. The other day she made little door signs for each of the bedrooms. They were very cute and funny. A kitten, a dog, an alligator and Paul and I had some little people that had a Mr and Miss book character feel. Paul looked very in love with his lovestruck eyes and hearts swirling around him.
Friday night Paul went on the Klondike Derby. He was very warm and dry. We cannot thank Dan enough for his extra army gear! He has a funny post on his blog about his recent "conversion." blog.oocha.com
I have been feeling rotund, but well. I have been sleeping better with this one then I did with Christian and Annmarie. I am able to sleep through the night every 3rd night and the other nights I have to stretch my back at 3 or 4 in the morning for about an hour. I am trying to stay active, however by the end of the day going up and down the stairs gets more difficult. This little girl has picked up on her judo kicks lately.
Sunday I taught sharing time and it was fun and rewarding. I love being in the Primary with the children!
Christian has started reading. His preschool teacher has noticed that he was ready and sent home his first book on Thursday from her reading library. It is called "Mat," from the "Bob Book" series (http://www.bobbooks.com/set1.html) distributed by Scholastic. By the time Paul came home which is about 3.5 hours later he told Paul at dinner that he had read it "5+5+1=11 times." By the next morning he had read it 29 times. Saturday, when Paul came home from the campout he announced he had read it 52 times. Sunday night when I tucked him in he asked if he could read it to me. He said he didn't even need to read it because he had it memorized. I think he is wanting to read! We read lots of books together during the day and I do a little "Jones school" with the two younger ones in the mornings. It is time to break out all those phonetic books I saved from Bianca and Cannon's kindergarten years.
This morning I have my 32 week checkup. It is fun now that I am going every two weeks. Feels like it's getting closer! Today is Christian's last day of Talking Time. I am ready for that. We have enjoyed the rain that is melting down the snow. The kids have played outside lots. The boys discovered two slugs under a rock on Saturday. I asked them the question, "Why is it that when you lift up a rock you find worms or slugs there?" That got them all excited and thinking, including Bianca who loves to learn about insects, and they have some theories. We are going to start experimenting. Hopefully it doesn't snow again real quickly.
That's all and more... Love to you all,
Candace
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