Jake and Lindsey (and sometimes Maggie too) are on a kick on having what we call tent-overs. That is, they like to pitch the tent upstairs in the play room and pretend like they're camping out. We let them do it on the weekends if they do a good job staying in the beds at night during the week.
They use to all too regularly come downstairs at night and crawl in our bed. It wouldn't be sooo bad except they love to kick and wiggle. Every once in a while would be ok, but when you get woke up every hour or two, it makes for a tough night's rest. So we told them that if they do a good job all week, they can have their tent-over on Friday night.
The first thing Lindsey said to me this morning was to remind me that this is tent night. As long as it works, I'm surely game!
Friday, February 29, 2008
Wednesday, February 27, 2008
Where exactly is Lindsey Land?
Sometimes Lindsey just AMAZES me! She's typically very content doing her own thing in her own way. It's not that she doesn't play nice with other kids, its just that she's very happy doing things how she wants to on her own terms. She spends a lot of time daydreaming and pretending -- what we often call Lindsey Land. Sometimes her "blondeness" comes off a bit ditsy. But I'll tell you what! Even when you don't think she's paying attention, she's soaking things up like a sponge.
After getting home from work late Thursday, as I was putting her to bed, we went up to her room to read her new "Take Home Reading" book from preschool. She loves getting a new book each Thursday, and was excited to read it with me. She read the whole book and only got 2 words wrong!
I was pretty amazed, but figured she had read it a few times with Brooke. Our kids are not unlike other kids that quickly memorize things. After tucking Lindsey in bed, I told Brooke how amazed I was that Lindsey had "memorized" the book in one day. I about fell off the sofa when Brooke told me she hadn't read it with her yet! Lindsey has really increased her interest in reading over the past few months, and is doing really well -- esp. for a four year old -- but I had no idea she was doing that well!
Then on Sunday, we were sitting in sacrament meeting when Lindsey grabbed the hymnbook and wanted me to sing a song with her (during the sacrament no less!). Wondering what was going on in her head, I asked her what song it was. She looked at me with a "duh" look and said page 82!
Now I knew she was pretty good with numbers, and kids are suppose to know how to count to 20 before they go to kindergarten (next year for her!), but I didn't expect her to recognize higher numbers. So we kept going, turning the pages as she'd tell me the number...81...91..108...133...181...263...she got them all right! We are in so much trouble with her!!!
Finally, she's shown a real interests in learning how to tell time on an analog clock, which is earlier than Jake cared about it. I guess it could help that she has older brother to help. To say the least, while Jake is often a show-off spouting off about everything he knows about a topic, our quiet Lindsey Land girl is soaking things up like a sponge too! She's different from him in many ways, but is still very special and very sweet!
After getting home from work late Thursday, as I was putting her to bed, we went up to her room to read her new "Take Home Reading" book from preschool. She loves getting a new book each Thursday, and was excited to read it with me. She read the whole book and only got 2 words wrong!
I was pretty amazed, but figured she had read it a few times with Brooke. Our kids are not unlike other kids that quickly memorize things. After tucking Lindsey in bed, I told Brooke how amazed I was that Lindsey had "memorized" the book in one day. I about fell off the sofa when Brooke told me she hadn't read it with her yet! Lindsey has really increased her interest in reading over the past few months, and is doing really well -- esp. for a four year old -- but I had no idea she was doing that well!
Then on Sunday, we were sitting in sacrament meeting when Lindsey grabbed the hymnbook and wanted me to sing a song with her (during the sacrament no less!). Wondering what was going on in her head, I asked her what song it was. She looked at me with a "duh" look and said page 82!
Now I knew she was pretty good with numbers, and kids are suppose to know how to count to 20 before they go to kindergarten (next year for her!), but I didn't expect her to recognize higher numbers. So we kept going, turning the pages as she'd tell me the number...81...91..108...133...181...263...she got them all right! We are in so much trouble with her!!!
Finally, she's shown a real interests in learning how to tell time on an analog clock, which is earlier than Jake cared about it. I guess it could help that she has older brother to help. To say the least, while Jake is often a show-off spouting off about everything he knows about a topic, our quiet Lindsey Land girl is soaking things up like a sponge too! She's different from him in many ways, but is still very special and very sweet!
Sunday, February 24, 2008
Saturday, February 23, 2008
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