So here is some more about my kids! Lately we have been working on words, colors, animals and their sounds, and asking instead of whining. Logan's vocabulary has expanded immensely and I am very proud of him - sorry for the bragging but....it has taken him a really long time to talk, which has been something I have seriously worried and worried and worried about this. Anyway, I am very proud of him. We have bought these little leap frog movies and flashcards and it seems to really be working. The hardest part is making sure that we work on it every day. Sometimes it is hard to find the time, but somehow I always do...I have only missed one day in the last 20, not too bad. Next, his colors. He is doing well with the colors, but he does better with green, red, and blue, which is fine...we just keep working on it...this week he seems to be really getting black and white! His animals are coming along but the sounds are a little harder...he knows dog, cat, duck, cow....thats about it. Last, Logan has a horrible habit of whining when he wants something...he will go to what he wants and stand there and whine and if we ignore him he will come to us and whine in our face!! So we have been working on him asking for what he wants instead of whining....we are making progress...THANK GOODNESS. Now a new thing he started doing without us teaching him or trying is singing...or humming. This is absolutely ADORABLE! I tried to teach him the words...and we are still working on it, but his favorite song is "Row, Row, Row your boat" He can say Row and Boat...the word "Merrily" is a little harder. His next favorite is Twinkle, Twinkle little star....he says "Winkle, Winkle 'hum' STAR, 'hummmmmmm' ARE, hummmmmm SKY..." pretty cute!
On a side note - The other day I was in the kitchen in which I had a major mishap - and I said very loudly "Fu**, Fu**, Fu**" in which my child came behind me and repeated the word! UGhhhhhh. I very quickly apologized for saying it and told him that was a big people word and he couldn't say it. Luckily he hasn't! Obviously, I need to be more careful about the words that I say, however, I dont believe in completely not using bad words. Growing up I remember my mom cursing all the time...not so much my dad, but every once in a while he would let one slip...but we always knew that we weren't allowed to say the words and we didn't. I remember the first time I ever cursed and actually knew what I was doing, I was in 8th grade. Anyway, I do think that my child is a little young to differentiate between big people words and kid words, and I do believe in watching what you say...I definitely dont want every other word out of my mouth to be a curse word, and I will definitely be trying my hardest not to say them at all...but I know that one will slip here and there, and I hope I can teach my children the difference between words they can say and words they cant.
Now...on to Landry - (this is shorter) Yesterday I kept Landry awake at the beginning of the day, then let her back to her sleeping. I woke her up 15- 20 minutes early than what she usually wakes up and I pushed her bath time back about an hour and I did it before a feeding instead of after...to my pleasant surprise she went to sleep so easily! On a down side, Logan took a two hour nap and didn't go to bed until 11:30! I read some suggestions on how to quiet a colicky baby (which is what I have diagnosed Landry- Colicky) Anyway, they seemed to work last night...now lets see if they can continue to work! JR went to bed last night at 7:45 so I better get to sleep in this weekend! HA
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