Jude Lately

How has Jude been lately?
My youngest is now 3.5 years old!

- Likes to draw and color...really our little artist.
- Lately really into drawing, especially spiders in spider-webs
- Likes to hop on one foot while holding your hand and likes running around in circles
- Sees Tamlin as an awesome big brother...loves him most of the time (except when Tam is making him mad)
- Enjoys singing, especially ABC song and Twinkle Twinkle Little Star
- Watches Wild Krats and Umi-Zoomi on the Kindle
- Favorite toys are his Monsters, Thomas the Train (especially the one that came on his birthday cake), and all other trains, and airplanes, and cars
- The number 10 is his favorite
- Still a snuggler.  Hates to be alone or by himself, and always wants to be near others.
- Wants to sit in your lap, whenever he can, especially to hear a story
- He's a monkey.  Loves hanging from the monkey-bars, the bunk beds, and door knobs.
- Still loves butterflies, and horses, and spiders.  He has a momma horse and a baby horse that he tells stories about and sleep with him at times.
- Has a sweet tooth a mile long; loves to candy, cookies, and other treats.  Not so great at eating his dinner or trying new things.  We have butted heads on this...and he has been known to squirrel away a piece of unwanted food in his cheek for an hour+ if he REALLY doesn't want to eat it.
- Funny about what he wears.  HATES button shirts or coats.  He'll protest even wearing a polo with 2 buttons.  Hates them!  He will moan and whimper like a wounded animal in a button coat.  He had to be bribed to wear this shirt for school photos.  LOVES his pink croc shoes still.  Just put them away for the winter. (He had them on for this photo, too).  However, is now really digging his batman shoes.


Favorite Sayings:
1 and 0 make Ten
I'm so silly
How cool is that
Tam's not sharing
Can I get a treat?

Tamlin is 6!

My first born is now 6 years old!  How the time has gone by so quickly!

How has he been lately?

- Loving riding the bus
- Enjoying school
- Making lots of friends, even friends with the girls that chase him around the playground
- Actually likes doing his homework; his writing is becoming much more legible
- Good at helping others
- Chores at home include taking out the recycling, putting his clothes away, putting his toys away, helping his brother
- Likes playing with cars, transformers, and ninjas, and magnetic blocks
- Has been watching Power Rangers, Electric Company, Wild Krats, and Rescue Bots on the Kindle
- Learning how to read and really nailing the sight words.  He's in the advance reading group at school
- Sometimes plays well with Jude, and sometimes not so well.
- Likes to run outside and ride his bike with training wheels...likes to run in our little house too.
- Still very emotional at times, especially when tired...may cry if feelings are little hurt or if he is frustrated or it is the end of the day.  But still often smiling too!
- Trying to become more aware of what's around him and stop bonking into Jude :-)
- Doing simple maths
- loves playing games, anything where the whole family can sit together and play
-pretty good at eating his dinner, or at lease trying everything on his plate
- Doing well with handwriting and drawing recognizable pictures
-Imaginative play becoming pretty elaborate and creative
-Working on learning to tie shoes
- Legos!

Favorite sayings:
Taking a phrase and substituting "nothing": For example, Mary had a little lamb becomes Mary had a little nothing.
"Your my best mom"  or "Your my favorite Dad" (Like he has any others!)

Little sewings...

Gearing up to start Christmas sewing projects, which meant finishing a bit of repairs/ patches.

And...

Both boys asked for Power Ranger Shirts.

Red power ranger shirts

(Do you know how many red power rangers there are?!)

They narrowed it down to one type...

They wanted

Megaforce Red Power Ranger Shirts, specifically

 

With gold paint, stencils, and red shirts from our stash, 

the littles each got one of these :

They loved them.  LOVED THEM.

We had power ranger/ ninja moves all throughout the house for several days.

I am the cool mom.

Tamlin also asked for a #6 shirt with 6 tie-dye stars.  I had the brown shirt in the stash and pulled the tie-die material from an old knit baby blanket of Tamlin's.  I liked being able to grab something from his past to make something new that he can wear now.

Now...a month to make several Christmas Gifts!

Christmas shopping

Mini-brag...my Christmas shopping is nearly done by mid-November.  It helps that I love great deals and shop year round.  I can't wait for the holidays, starting with my oldest son's birthday :-)

Go ahead...hire me as your personal shopper!

Favorite Book

I picked this book out from the library this week.
It looked "fun."

It has become THE BOOK to read at bedtime...all week long.
Thank you, Brian.  I'm totatlly blaming you and your insane chicken bock-bock-a-bocking that has made this book crazy cool for the kids.


The book is very cool...the chickens do some amazing rescue attempts, like saving the lost sheep.

bock-a-bock-a-bock...

Jude likes it when the chickens rescue the cow from a tree.  He got there because of the high winds of a tormato (Jude's spelling). 

Tamlin likes the bock-a-bocking.

Family photo time

50 gazillion photos to get three that are decent :-)

 A few of the out-takes...

I like this last one the best :-)