days of our lives

well not much is going on with us. i thought i would record some crazy and cute things going on with B&A.
*B is suddenly interested in what is going on with my belly. usually every evening he wants to feel the baby kick. he wants me to fully expose the belly (and ever expanding belly button) and put his hand on it. although he keeps his hand on for about 5 seconds, he doesn't really feel a kick. but he says he does. he also likes to say he wants to "hear" the baby. he puts his ear to my belly and says he can hear it. occasionally he speaks to the belly, but the belly hasn't spoken back to him. A is still clueless about what is going on with the belly.

*Last Friday C and I had to have a conference with the daycare folks. A is a biter, scratcher, fighter, etc. She has probably bitten about half of the month in January alone. Those poor kids in her class. My heart goes out to their parents. So, I wanted to meet with the teachers and director to come up with a plan. Last week she only bit once, good news. Today is Wednesday...3 days in and no bite, but today she kept telling all the teachers "no!" and hitting her friends. Needless to say, she became one with the time-out chair today. hope she grows out of this soon.

*this week B has been showing us how to say the colors in sign language. it is now a regular thing for him. tonight we briefly watched a thing on the history channel about bears. so any time there was one, he would show me how to say the color in sign language and want me to do it.

*this morning when i went to wake A up, she had no diaper on! yep, that's right. at some point in the night, she got up, went to the bathroom, took off her diaper and got back in bed. i found her in the nice puddle of wet this morning. when i asked her what happened, her response "i poo-poot" over and over again. luckily, there was no trace of "poo-poot" around. i thought the nightgown was cute, but not if she will take her diaper off--not so cute. we'll see what she does tonight. i made sure she was wearing a pant set tonight.

*B has begun to "read" his first book. we were beaming with pride just a few nights ago. At Christmas this year, I got The Going to Bed Book by Sandra Boynton. We have Barnyard Dance and it's a classic in this house. So, I thought I'd get another one. C and I only read it a few times to the kids. About a week ago, B said "no mommy I will read Going to Bed Book." I'm thinking OK, yeah right, it's not a repetitive text book, so he can't do this." he fooled me!! This book is really a story without repetition. he didn't read it word for word, but he got the gist of it down. Here lately he wants to read it to us every night. We'll just keep working on it.

*And of course A has to try to read something as well. Her fave is Brown Bear. So she usually picks up Brown Bear and will "read" it is a big scary voice. It's hilarious. She reads it really loud too. All 3 of us sit and laugh at her, so she loves it. The really funny thing is that she picks up any other book...for example The Story of Jesus was just the other night. She opens the book and says "Jesus, Jesus what do you see" turns the page and goes with whatever is on the page. It was so funny. Now she does it with any book she picks up. They all follow the pattern of Brown Bear. She is a mess.

that's about all for now. i am gearing down for the big 3rd grade TAKS test on March 3. i can't wait for it to be over!! then it will be time to hunker down for the Math TAKS at the end of April. teaching is supposed to be fun, right?