From My Journal

4/3/09 – Friday. Nana kept the kids. Read a couple of books to the kids this morning on the bed. They are as interested in reading books as they are watching movies. The kids played this morning. Janie got here about 10:00. We did read a couple more books on the couch. The kids watched Barney and then Deann watched Princess and the Pauper. After work they watched Scooby Doo. This evening we played Hi Ho Cheerio each of them winning one game. Deann gets upset if she looses several in a row. We tried again to play Chutes and Ladders but the boys don’t really enjoy this game so we generally quit about two rows up. We put together the Alphabet Train Puzzle. We got out the other floor puzzle and Kevin worked for quite a while trying to put it together. While he was doing this, I worked with Scott on writing letters on the chalk board – H, I, T, A, S, C, O. Worked with Kevin on the chalk board and he wrote H, I, T and then got off on his own thing. He is more difficult to direct and wants to play and do his own thing. Next, I wrote the numbers from 10 to 20 on the chalk board. Deann could identify most of them but missed 13, 14, 15, and 17. Also doesn’t know 20. Scott did identify quite a few letters in the bath tub including K and X which I didn’t know he knew. The boys were playing with magnets on the refrigerator after our chalk board lessons while Deann was doing the dishes. Scott made an I with the magnets and then told Kevin this was an I. I also noticed him trying to correct Kevin’s pronunciation of fire the same way we tell him how to say fire. He kept saying no you say fire not bire. Kevin can say it correctly if he thinks about it. It is so funny to see Scott trying to instruct Kevin. After the boys bath, the kids all drew pictures – their task was to draw their family. Scott drew monsters, Kevin drew a spider and then himself and then started to draw Scott but wound up scribbling. Deann did draw her family. Deann started to do a lesson in her 100 lessons book but just seemed too tired. She tried on her costume again to show her Daddy. She loves the gloves.