I really had high hopes for this summer, but I have not been feeling that great already! The heat is a little unbearable right now and my little boys just want to be outside all the time! I am trying to keep them busy and active in the mornings so I can get a little rest in the afternoons, but that has been in vain! Little N thinks that most days he doesn't need a nap, or he will fall asleep in the car for a few minutes and think that is a nap! Today was not a napping day!! So mommy is really tired right now!
A few weeks ago my husband bought a cheap emac computer on ebay. Our intentions for the computer was to be for our boys to use. E (the 6 year old) loves it! My husband has it set up so there are only certain web sites that he can get to and he can manage doing it all by himself most of the time. I like that we can have better control over where he is going on the internet and what games he is playing. For some reason we could never get the hang of it on our main computer. Mostly because we had to log out of the family account and then log him into his. Which really took a lot of "effort" (not really, but it seemed like it!). So in the afternoons E gets to have some computer time and that keeps him busy enough that I can get a little rest in while Little N is napping (if he chooses to nap!).
As for Little N, finally at 3 1/2 years old he is going potty in the potty! Well pee at least! He is still really struggling with pooing in the potty. We had to resort to bribery with the pee, he earned himself a Bubble Foam Blaster. So with the pooing we are offering him a trip to Chuck E Cheese. (As a side note, I just had to take a break from writing to take Little N to the potty and he just tried to tell me that he wanted his shirt tucked into his underwear! Haa haaa!!) Anyway back to the Chuck E Cheese bribe, all he has to do is go poo in the potty 5 times. We started this chart 2 weeks ago, he has yet to get one sticker!! OHHH the frustration!! He knows what is supposed to happen, his poo is to go into the potty, but he just refuses to do it! We are totally out of ideas for that! We are hoping that when Nana and Papa come home in a few weeks maybe they can talk him into it!
Now for the newest little guy coming into our lives, Baby Z, he seems to stay pretty active! :) I also wonder how my bigger boys will react when Baby Z is introduced. E I think will adjust ok but I still think we will have a few issues with him and the level of his voice! He tends to get really excited and a little loud sometimes. Then there is Little N, not sure this will be the favorite thing to happen to him this year. He is being really clingy to me lately and wanting me to hold him and do lots for him. So this will be a definite challenge! He will also be starting pre-school shortly after Baby Z is born, and E will be going back to school as well. I feel like I am really babying him right now because I know how his world will change in a few short weeks and I want him to feel like he is still very important to me! My husband on the other hand is not liking the whining of Little N lately and having a hard time dealing with it. Anyway this will be an interesting fall for sure in our house.
I was so impressed with E and his level of learning that took place in Kindergarten this year! I am so proud of him! He went into the school year still writing his name backwards and upside down sometimes and he came out of the school year totally reading entire books on his own! He is able to sound out words that he doesn't know and most of the time can figure it out all by himself! Man how Kindergarten has changed! I remember just needing to learn my address and phone number, colors, numbers and that sort of thing! I am so excited that he is really loving to read, (he takes after me I guess!) My husband is not a reader and says that E is reading better than he did in 2nd grade.
This has been a total random thoughts post but I needed something to keep me awake until hubby gets home in an hour! :)
