Wednesday, 27 September, 2006

The girls are beginning to get excited about Halloween coming but have rather horrible memories of one Saturday morning last October when we all went into town and ended up at the Kaiser clinic for flu shots.   They’ve already started to protest and to try and get out of the experience.  We won’t have the element of surprise to rely on this year, so instead of starting to cry at the clinic when they realize what is happening, they’ll be whining for the entire month of October and November.

Kristen loves her shoes.  I think partly because she knows that sometimes putting on shoes means she gets to go somewhere and partly because the non-slip soles on the bottom of her jammies aren’t so non-slip after all.  She has learned after a few falls to walk with more care once she gets on to the hardwood floor.  I guess a few knocks on the head will do that to you.  So with the cooler weather, she needs to wear socks during the day, but that, too, causes her to fall, so she wears her little pink and white tennies all day long.  She can say “shoes”, “there it is”, “see ya”, and “come on”–some of the new phrases she has picked up lately.  If you don’t get up quickly enough when she says “come on”, she will try to pull you up out of the chair.  She still says “na” for milk.  I think it is a cross between milk and night night.  She is smart enough to ask for it though.

Tuesday, 12 September, 2006

I made the girls play dough today.  I could hear them throwing it against something so I go to the living room where they are standing suspiciously next to the carpet.  "Stop throwing the play dough on the floor!'  "We're not." Amy answers.  I know they are throwing it somewhere, and it takes only two seconds to figure it out.  "Are you throwing it on the ceiling?"  Amy nods sheepishly.  "Stop!"

Monday, 11 September, 2006

I just wanted to share a funny story about Misha.  She was sitting in the living room watching tv while I was eating lunch and suddenly discovered that she has hair on her toes.  She brought those toes over for me to look at and wanted to know what we could do about it.  Can we take them off?  I reassured her that everyone has hair on their toes, but she's not convinced nor is she pleased with it.  "I don't like growing up" she lamented.

Then, later in the afternoon we were in the office.  She sat on a stool at her computer and noticed that something wasn’t smelling so good.  So she hopped off the stool, bent over, and sniffed it.  Misha suddenly noticed that the chair stinks after you sit on it.  In perfect Misha-style she says, "Why?  Why does it have to be me with the stinky bottom?"

Kristen’s fourth molar has finally poked through the gums in her mouth.  I guess that’s twelve down, eight more to go.   I hope the next bunch are a little easier on her (and us), but I doubt it.  She seems to be constantly chewing on things with drool dripping down her chin and soaking the front of her shirt.  These spongy things are her favorite thing to chew and they are holding up for now.

The girls are both enjoying school.  Amy had her first spelling test and did really well on it.  I think that it will be a weekly event now with the words becoming more and more challenging each week.  Amy’s reading is improving.  We sat and read or rather she read to me a “Hello Kitty” book that she borrowed from school.

Misha needs to focus and has already found herself on the “refocus” chair at school.  We try to talk to her about not worrying about what other students are doing and to listen to her teacher better.  She has improved since her first stint on the chair and hasn’t had to “refocus” since (or at least she isn’t telling us about it).  Her teacher says that she is a good student and her first new friend is Claire.