whoa, it's been a minute!
man, it's been awhile! i have been wanting to write on this blog for a long time and just haven't been able to get it done. either because i am running around all over the house like a crazy person, or because at the end of the night i. am. so. tired. like, my body is exhausted.
but, i am sitting here with a korean sheet mask on my face and 20 minutes to kill, so instead of wasting time on Facebook or pinterest, here i am! i even went downstairs to get my computer!
so it's fall now. z is in pre-k this year, and he is really enjoying it! he goes 3 days a week for 2.5 hours, and it's a co-op so a couple times a month i work in the classroom. this is the preschool he attended last year and we had a great experience. i have noticed a big jump in learning, and retaining knowledge since he started. he could count and rattle off the abc's pretty early on, but now i notice bigger concepts, like arithmetic. and it seems to be happening very organically, which i am so happy about. i feel like that's how kids should learn when they are this young, and so far this play-based learning has me convinced. even though he is not being drilled on addition and subtraction, he gets the concept. for instance, the kids will be playing with toys, say z will have 4 lego pieces and ava will take one of them and he says "hey! now i only have 3 legos!" stuff like that. it amazes me. he is really into counting stuff, making patterns, sorting. he does it all day long on his own. i have been trying to get him to practice holding a pencil and writing his name, but he isn't really into it and will only do it sometimes. and i don't force him. he will get it, especially with the help of his teacher. z had a huge growth spurt over the summer and he seems so tall. he is in the fournado stage right now. he actually does rip through the house 100 mph creating messes and knocking things down. he is even louder than ever. he has gotten to be a little aggressive at times. we are working on being gentle, and using quieter voices. but i feel like maybe there is a surge in testosterone or something at this age, because all of a sudden he is so much more physical in all aspects of being a human right now, haha. he is really into imaginative play now and has all these scenarios that he plays all day long. he loves his sister. they are starting to be able to play together more now. it's so adorable. half of the time they play well and half of the time they fight over stupid stuff. i seems pretty typical. but often throughout the day he dotes on her. he tells her how much he loves her and what a "sweetie little girl" she is. and then 5 minutes later he rips a toy from her hands. ah, siblings.
little miss ava is almost 2. she has definitely come into the tricky twos stage. she has become quite independent at times. if i do something like zip her coat or get her some water, she says "i do it!" or "ava do it!" and then she will un-do what i just did and re-do it herself. she is very loud, too these days. she stands up for herself. she bosses us around. she is very shout-y. she reminds me of z at this age, but a little more fierce. of course, it's hard to be patient when she is screaming at me, but i kind of love that she is so persistent and strong willed. she loves to read books, she is such a brave little one, climbing up on stuff and sliding down big slides and basically giving me a heart attack all day long. in fact, she has taken to pushing the kitchen chairs to the countertops and climbing on top of the countertops quite frequently in search of chocolate chips or some other treat. she reallllly loves to color and paint and work with play-do. she has been stacking blocks for a long time now, but recently i noticed that when she works with her stacking blocks (which stack from the largest block on the bottom up to the smallest), she aligns one edge of the blocks perfectly. she moves the block around on top of the bottom block until the edge closest to her is in perfect alignment with the edge of the block underneath it. she is very precise. in the past 2 months she has started talking A LOT. she says lots of words now and is stringing phrases together. she notices things all over the place, she will walk around in a room and say "blanket there", or "chair there". she is learning her colors, she can count to 10 and get most of the numbers in the correct order. she cracks us up with the things she comes up with sometimes. recently she started saying "one more time!" or "one more minute!" she is a fantastic eater, she pretty much eats whatever we give her. and she eats constantly. we just weaned her off the pacifier. i am so excited to watch what kind of a kid she will grow to be.
hubs and i are still trying to get projects done on the house. it's a never ending cycle of projects. and now, being in the house for 4 years, i notice that things need to be touched up, like the paint on the baseboards and stuff like that. arg. but things are coming along, slowly but surely.
life is speeding by. i can't believe how quickly the weeks go. between preschool, Baha'i activities, time with family and friends, projects, keeping up the house and the damn laundry---it goes by fast. i can't imagine how much more hectic life will be when both kids are in school and are involved in their own activities. but maybe it will be a little easier in some ways because we won't have to constantly be doing everything for the children, like helping them use the bathroom, getting them dressed, trying to get them to eat---you know, all the little things you have to do during the day that eventually they can take over themselves. but, i am really working on changing my attitude to make the tediousness of the days feel less like stuff i do over and over and over again and more like my job, or a service to my family. in the Bahai Faith, work is considered a form of worship to God, so if i look at it through that lens it feels more purposeful and less like "i just vacuumed and mopped the floors dammit and now there are crumbs and peanut butter all over it". so, i'm hoping to write a couple more posts soon so that i don't just word vomit everything in painfully long post.
buh bye for now!
but, i am sitting here with a korean sheet mask on my face and 20 minutes to kill, so instead of wasting time on Facebook or pinterest, here i am! i even went downstairs to get my computer!
so it's fall now. z is in pre-k this year, and he is really enjoying it! he goes 3 days a week for 2.5 hours, and it's a co-op so a couple times a month i work in the classroom. this is the preschool he attended last year and we had a great experience. i have noticed a big jump in learning, and retaining knowledge since he started. he could count and rattle off the abc's pretty early on, but now i notice bigger concepts, like arithmetic. and it seems to be happening very organically, which i am so happy about. i feel like that's how kids should learn when they are this young, and so far this play-based learning has me convinced. even though he is not being drilled on addition and subtraction, he gets the concept. for instance, the kids will be playing with toys, say z will have 4 lego pieces and ava will take one of them and he says "hey! now i only have 3 legos!" stuff like that. it amazes me. he is really into counting stuff, making patterns, sorting. he does it all day long on his own. i have been trying to get him to practice holding a pencil and writing his name, but he isn't really into it and will only do it sometimes. and i don't force him. he will get it, especially with the help of his teacher. z had a huge growth spurt over the summer and he seems so tall. he is in the fournado stage right now. he actually does rip through the house 100 mph creating messes and knocking things down. he is even louder than ever. he has gotten to be a little aggressive at times. we are working on being gentle, and using quieter voices. but i feel like maybe there is a surge in testosterone or something at this age, because all of a sudden he is so much more physical in all aspects of being a human right now, haha. he is really into imaginative play now and has all these scenarios that he plays all day long. he loves his sister. they are starting to be able to play together more now. it's so adorable. half of the time they play well and half of the time they fight over stupid stuff. i seems pretty typical. but often throughout the day he dotes on her. he tells her how much he loves her and what a "sweetie little girl" she is. and then 5 minutes later he rips a toy from her hands. ah, siblings.
little miss ava is almost 2. she has definitely come into the tricky twos stage. she has become quite independent at times. if i do something like zip her coat or get her some water, she says "i do it!" or "ava do it!" and then she will un-do what i just did and re-do it herself. she is very loud, too these days. she stands up for herself. she bosses us around. she is very shout-y. she reminds me of z at this age, but a little more fierce. of course, it's hard to be patient when she is screaming at me, but i kind of love that she is so persistent and strong willed. she loves to read books, she is such a brave little one, climbing up on stuff and sliding down big slides and basically giving me a heart attack all day long. in fact, she has taken to pushing the kitchen chairs to the countertops and climbing on top of the countertops quite frequently in search of chocolate chips or some other treat. she reallllly loves to color and paint and work with play-do. she has been stacking blocks for a long time now, but recently i noticed that when she works with her stacking blocks (which stack from the largest block on the bottom up to the smallest), she aligns one edge of the blocks perfectly. she moves the block around on top of the bottom block until the edge closest to her is in perfect alignment with the edge of the block underneath it. she is very precise. in the past 2 months she has started talking A LOT. she says lots of words now and is stringing phrases together. she notices things all over the place, she will walk around in a room and say "blanket there", or "chair there". she is learning her colors, she can count to 10 and get most of the numbers in the correct order. she cracks us up with the things she comes up with sometimes. recently she started saying "one more time!" or "one more minute!" she is a fantastic eater, she pretty much eats whatever we give her. and she eats constantly. we just weaned her off the pacifier. i am so excited to watch what kind of a kid she will grow to be.
hubs and i are still trying to get projects done on the house. it's a never ending cycle of projects. and now, being in the house for 4 years, i notice that things need to be touched up, like the paint on the baseboards and stuff like that. arg. but things are coming along, slowly but surely.
life is speeding by. i can't believe how quickly the weeks go. between preschool, Baha'i activities, time with family and friends, projects, keeping up the house and the damn laundry---it goes by fast. i can't imagine how much more hectic life will be when both kids are in school and are involved in their own activities. but maybe it will be a little easier in some ways because we won't have to constantly be doing everything for the children, like helping them use the bathroom, getting them dressed, trying to get them to eat---you know, all the little things you have to do during the day that eventually they can take over themselves. but, i am really working on changing my attitude to make the tediousness of the days feel less like stuff i do over and over and over again and more like my job, or a service to my family. in the Bahai Faith, work is considered a form of worship to God, so if i look at it through that lens it feels more purposeful and less like "i just vacuumed and mopped the floors dammit and now there are crumbs and peanut butter all over it". so, i'm hoping to write a couple more posts soon so that i don't just word vomit everything in painfully long post.
buh bye for now!
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