Make You Smile Monday

A few days ago, we attended a pizza party to celebrate the end of Caleb's first soccer season. We had pizza and cake and all the kids got a little trophy and the coach said something nice about each of them. He noted that Caleb was the go-to goalie and how much he had improved, even scoring the only two goals during the second to last game! We are so proud :)

Caleb got along very well with all the kids, particularly with a little girl named Kirah. She's the one that wanted to name their team The Princesses or The Unicorns :) She's very cute and has the most adorable high pitched voice. At the end of the night she came up to Caleb and said "You did a very good job at soccer." Oh my gosh! I wish you guys could've been there cause it was the cutest thing ever. She is only four and to see such a little kid being so polite and sweet in this ultra sweet little girl's voice! I just melted!

I hoped and waited for Caleb to acknowledge her with something like "Thanks! You did too!" But instead he shoved his trophy at her and says "I know!! Look at my trophy!!"

Ana On the Move

Make You Smile Monday

Caleb wakes up and we say "good morning" and give hugs. Then I kneel down and get serious with him...

M: Caleb. We didn't have a very good day yesterday did we?

C: No.

M: You were quite a naughty boy, weren't you?

C: Yes.

M: You need to try harder today to be a good boy. Do you understand?

C: Yes. Well, you see... yesterday there was a bad alien who went into my head and he made me be a bad boy. But, today there is a good alien in my head. So, I can be a good boy today.

M: Okay, that's good news... lol

Man Cold

I can't remember which blog I first saw this on, so maybe you've already seen it. But, I think it's still funny...

Random Pictures

Ana is very much like Caleb in the way that she fights sleep if there is anything going on. Who needs sleep when you could be getting hugs and kisses?

This particular time, we were visiting my mom and Caleb had long been put to bed. But, being that we were at some other house with some other person around, Ms. G tried with all her might to avoid sleeping. But, she's no match for an hour on Daddy's bouncy knee. I don't remember how late it was, but I do remember that it was one of those times where I said the Desperation Prayer. You know... Dear God, I will do anything. ANYTHING!!! if you just make her go to sleep. Just let me know what I have to do to serve You in any way. Just stop the insanity and give me a break. Please!!! Amen

We start 'um young...


Is there such thing as being cuddled to death?

Make You Smile Monday

Early in the morning a few minutes after Caleb woke up...

C: Mommy, this leg hurts.

M: Oh no. What's wrong with it?

C: Well, I think, that if I get seven more monster trucks, it'll feel better.

M: Really? How will monster trucks make your leg feel better?


And then he just stares at me with an irritated look as if to say "WHAT don't you get Mommy!!???" And he seriously would not address my ridiculous question with an answer.

Progress with Caleb

Even though I recently mentioned that I'm amazed that I finally figured out how to get Caleb to sit down and do school with me (happily), he continues to surprise me. Right now we're going through all the letters again. We did this already, but this time we're concentrating on lowercase, writing the letters and the sounds the letters make. Every few letters, we try to read very small words, just to introduce the idea. The first thing we do is review the letters we've already done. I write down the capital letters (cause he already knows the capital letters very well), then he writes down the lowercase and we go over the sounds.

Well, the other day, I was trying to get the big boy backpack done and Caleb was anxious to start school. He finally got tired of waiting and decided to start by himself! He missed the letter C and got E and D mixed up, but still! The fact that he started this on his own! I can hardly believe how things have changed. This totally made my day!



P.S. I tried to start him on Ordinary Parent's Guide to Teaching Reading, but the poem totally messed him up. We'd go over a letter that he already knew the sound for, and then at the end of the verse he'd be so confused that he would forget the sound it made. So, that is why I'm doing my own thing right now and then we'll start back with the book once he's got all the letter sounds down really well.