Mama's Diaries

I started worrying that some of you might be getting Tori withdrawals so I thought I better take care of that.?? ;)?? I really love the top picture even though my husband said I blew it with the backlighting.?? I just disagree.?? :)?? Maybe it is technically incorrect but that picture speaks to me so I don’t care.?? This was my practice outdoor shoot last week before David and Aimee’s.?? Uncle Dusty helped me.?? We took these pictures in Papa and Sweetie’s front yard.

About Tori….

Yesterday I went to look for her and heard a suspicious rustling sound.?? I found her in the kitchen.?? She had opened my island pantry and had emptied an entire bag of plastic straws all over herself.?? I have cabinet locks but I must not have shut the door good.?? When I called her name she glanced at me, did the duck and cover, and then wouldn’t look back up.?? Pretty funny.

She has also learned to shake her head yes.?? Not sure she knows what she is saying but I think she is figuring it out.?? At first I thought she was just playing and had learned it but one day last week when she was crying I asked her if she wanted a bottle and she shook her head yes so clearly there is something to it.?? She won’t always respond this way but often times she will.

She is now eating 2 jars of stage 2 baby food at lunch and dinner and averages about 4 bottles in a 24 hour period.?? She is still taking three naps a day.?? One about 2 hours after she wakes up.?? One after lunch, and one after dinner.?????? This week she is not only just standing at the coffee table but she can transition back and forth between the couch and coffee table.?? I do NOT want her to walk this month (she turned 8 months on Saturday).?? Hopefully she won’t.

About Ty

Yesterday I was preparing to give Tanner his spelling test and Ty asked me if I would read the 16 word list to him.?? I read it and then he said “Mommy read it again.”?? I did.?? Once more he asked for it to be read.?? Then he took the list from me and read all the words.?? I was pretty astounded.?? First of all, I had only read them three times and I don’t know how he could memorize a 16 word list in order after hearing it only 3 times.?? Second of all, even if he were getting phonetic clues, they weren’t easy phonic words.?? Third, if I picked them out and asked him to read them out of order, he could.?? Fourth, several HOURS later he repeated the list for Sweetie and Daddy and that is without any reminders from me (making only 2 mistakes).?? What in the world??? Here was the list:?? any, about, around, want, don’t, how, boys, girls, streets, lunches, dishes, boxes, rooms, wishes, foxes, holidays.

I may have mentioned this, but along these same lines…

He was using the remote to scan through the channel guide recently and he was reading all the shows as they came up on the schedule.?? I intended to take the remote away (because he isn’t supposed to use it) but got fascinated with how many shows he was reading.?? I stood there quietly watching as he scrolled through the ENTIRE day reading the list.?? On one hand I get it because they he was looking at a familiar channel but he doesn’t watch all that much tv and many of the program titles I wasn’t even familiar with.???? It seems both my boys will be good readers.?? That makes me so happy!

Ty loves sitting on my lap having his feet and hands and back rubbed while Tanner is reading to me.?? I love getting that special time with both boys at the same time.?? Those are the moments that I am so glad we decided to home school.?? (Teaching Tanner 3 digit subraction with regrouping doesn’t make the top of the list however).?? 🙂

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Jim was happy tonight.?? I cut my hair above my shoulders and he told me if I would just slick it back now I would almost have Trinity hair.?? Better get that costume back out ;).