Spinning Reader and Vowels

Somehow Ian seems to read books without looking at them. I do homework with him in a different room each night - sometimes sitting at a table, desk sometimes at a chair - with his feet on the ground. Try to mix it up after a long day.
Tonight we were in our room - on the floor as he spun and spun on the floor to and from the book - peeking and then somehow reading the words imprinted in his head as he flew away and close to me.

We have also been quizzing him for spelling tests. Tonight he forgot to put an E in help so I explained all words have vowels. I looked when he finished his test and the words were spelled correctly ... with Hebrew vowels decorating the letters bottoms.

Ian gets a lot of mail..

Ian often gets invitations and thank you notes and other mail and one day mail came from Yavneh for Daron. It was a request for money to sign him up for preschool. Normally Daron had been so excited about the possibility of Yavneh. Well when the papers arrived and I read the note to them. Daron, rather than looking pleased, looked exhasperated.' "Oh No! But then I have to work alllll day"
- clearly Ian's complaints about hating school and all the homework sunk in

Five Teeth

Five teeth, almost 20 lbs, finally not eating at night. Still super loud. The boys love her. Daron sometimes too much but we are truly blessed.

Library Day

Daron finally had library day at school. To his delight- it is the same day as Ian's library day. The night before- his teachers- Carly who is wonderful - told us that we must read the book to the kids and they must be prepared to speak about the book.

What does Daron come home with? A book entirely in Russian.
Fortunately Grannie Annie was on hand to make up a story to go with the pictures in the very long book from Russia.

School is worse than eggs....

First grade is a major adjustment. Ian actually does very well with his work and I am loving home work as it is individual time with him - and something i can relate to (as opposed to transformers) - but first grade apparently is no fun and they have to sit all day.

Truly it has been hard. Days later Ian admitted he had gotten lost in the building one day. I know the feeling of hating getting yelled at and I think he has discovered that as well.

So I told him Caleb had said school is worse than eggs. And he agrees.

"Mommy, I can't find my Nakwerst"

I got off the phone I was so excited that D seemed to be askign for a hotdog ... only to discover he was seeking his binoculars.

Mamom

That's my name

A third tooth

She's got another one. And saved her first ear infection for the first night of Yom Tov Sukkot but as mike said, it was her first time disrupting us.

- She loves to dance - bops her butt up and down and around to music as she stands leaning on something. She has also taken to pointing and conducting when she hears music.

- Standing, cruising its crazy.

- Still waking at night but the truth is I look forward to those moments. I miss every minute that passes.