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Here are the eggs we made on Good Friday:
Sunday, April 20, 2014
Easter madness!
Here are the eggs we made on Good Friday:
Harry potter ban
Paige and I are reading Harry Potter together. I started reading it to her, but as her reading level is so high she is able to read it by herself for the most part. I'm sure some words she doesn't understand, but then again I don't either with some of the british expressions. At night Paige reads for a while in her bed with a flashlight and then goes to sleep. Usually she reads her library books but one day she wanted to keep reading Harry Potter so I sent her into bed with it to continue a bit on her own. Since I've obviously read the book it didn't really matter if I missed any of it. Eventually Paige comes out of her room (close to 10:00) saying that she couldn't stop reading because the chapter was long and there was never a sentence that ended at the end of a page. AND she was scared of the 3 headed dog. So now Harry Potter has been banned for alone reading. We are reaching the end and I've told her we can re-read the first book for a couple of years but that Harry Potter is for older kids...especially all of the other books in the series.
Thursday, April 17, 2014
Everyone likes me...
Rose has been super shy for a while now. Maybe since September. If I'm around she basically won't speak to anyone. Apparently she is very talkative at school, and I see her talking at gymnastics and dance class. Something about me being there makes her embarrassed and mute. She has mentioned not wanting to wear certain things because people tell her that they like them, which I guess makes her uncomfortable as then they expect her to talk back. If someone asks her a question she averts her eyes and won't speak and waits for me to answer for her. I'm not making a big deal out of it or asking her to go out of her comfort zone. I'm sure she'll just grow out of it. One day after riding around in the shopping cart and receiving numerous comments on how cute she was she says to me in a sorrowful voice, "everyone likes me". I think she used to be pretty quiet around adults, and then started to open up as we became friends with the neighbours on our old street last spring (right before we moved). Then when we moved away she totally stopped talking to people. I'm sure things will change, although I was very quiet too.
A sad goodbye Florida!
We have now been back from Florida for 2 months and I am just getting around to finishing the Florida blogging. The ironic thing is that I would have had time to blog on the road, and hence would have been all caught up, but I spent any free time reading. I read a couple of really good vacation reads and I was loving it. My plan was to get home and just frantically do the blog, but that obviously never happened.
At any rate, after the extended family left we had a full week left of just our little family. We did the indoor skydiving and Epcot, and then literally just vegged out at the hotel for the rest of the trip. Days of swimming in the pool and visiting the playgrounds. Enjoying the weather and relaxing. Unfortunately Paige had a lot of homework to do. Next year I will make it very clear to the teachers that she would like to complete a lot of it beforehand. Not only was she fully not in school mode, but the last thing I wanted to do was constantly have to remind her and force her to do school work. Added a negative element which was none too relaxing. It would be worth the headache to force her to do it before in order to avoid doing any of it there. Oh well.
I packed Henry only a few toys for the trip and I'm glad I didn't bring much more. He was too interested in exploring the hotel room and putting things in his mouth to bother with traditional baby toys. The girls hardly touched their toys either. I always remind them before cottage trips and Florida trips that they barely need anything, and then it is always proven to be true. It was nice though with fewer toys that we could pack both of their suitcases with toys and books on one side, and clothes on the other. We had one more person this year, and fewer suitcases. I think we packed well and I keep meaning to make a list for 2015 with notes about what to pack. The only bummer thing was that my one sweatshirt that I brought decided to randomly lose it's zipper pull and I couldn't do it up at all.
The girls really really enjoyed themselves this year. Of course there was the week with Lizzy which really was awesome, but also they were really playing well together. They also enjoyed having Henry in the pool and watching him have fun. Rose was that much older that she wasn't napping and could really run around and keep up. Of course this year was a little more difficult having a baby, but clearly we'd rather be in Florida than at home in the winter. We really had some super hot days this year and really lucked out. We cannot wait to go back next year. Of course we have summer coming up here and really we should be looking forward to that first, but it is so cold still it just seems like summer will never come.
Ahh Florida, only a 3 hour plane ride away. Love it.
At any rate, after the extended family left we had a full week left of just our little family. We did the indoor skydiving and Epcot, and then literally just vegged out at the hotel for the rest of the trip. Days of swimming in the pool and visiting the playgrounds. Enjoying the weather and relaxing. Unfortunately Paige had a lot of homework to do. Next year I will make it very clear to the teachers that she would like to complete a lot of it beforehand. Not only was she fully not in school mode, but the last thing I wanted to do was constantly have to remind her and force her to do school work. Added a negative element which was none too relaxing. It would be worth the headache to force her to do it before in order to avoid doing any of it there. Oh well.
I packed Henry only a few toys for the trip and I'm glad I didn't bring much more. He was too interested in exploring the hotel room and putting things in his mouth to bother with traditional baby toys. The girls hardly touched their toys either. I always remind them before cottage trips and Florida trips that they barely need anything, and then it is always proven to be true. It was nice though with fewer toys that we could pack both of their suitcases with toys and books on one side, and clothes on the other. We had one more person this year, and fewer suitcases. I think we packed well and I keep meaning to make a list for 2015 with notes about what to pack. The only bummer thing was that my one sweatshirt that I brought decided to randomly lose it's zipper pull and I couldn't do it up at all.
The girls really really enjoyed themselves this year. Of course there was the week with Lizzy which really was awesome, but also they were really playing well together. They also enjoyed having Henry in the pool and watching him have fun. Rose was that much older that she wasn't napping and could really run around and keep up. Of course this year was a little more difficult having a baby, but clearly we'd rather be in Florida than at home in the winter. We really had some super hot days this year and really lucked out. We cannot wait to go back next year. Of course we have summer coming up here and really we should be looking forward to that first, but it is so cold still it just seems like summer will never come.
Ahh Florida, only a 3 hour plane ride away. Love it.
Girls in their other bedroom...
The girls have now spent 8 weeks at this wonderful hotel over the course of their lives. We always give Paige the bed by the window and tell her not to open the drapes as it looks open onto the hallway.
Saturday, April 5, 2014
Making sand art at the hotel...
Hmm didn't actually take photos of the finished product! Will have to do that...
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