tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29597712011-12-05T04:01:55.877-06:00This is a journal about my first baby: the quest to have him (through fertility treatment), life as a family of 3 (which is now 4), and now notes and comments just relating to him.FutureMomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16395036106889012090noreply@blogger.comBlogger6921100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2959771.post-63547733136983554822008-03-20T08:08:00.000-05:002008-03-21T00:12:52.357-05:00

Yesterday DS1 and I made plans to try to break our bad habits. It was his idea. He is going to try to stop sucking on his fingers, and I am going to try to stop chewing my fingernails.Some TV show that we have seen taught him about good habits and bad habits and that it takes 21 days of doing something to make it a habit. I've tried for ~40 years to stop biting my fingernails and cuticles, with

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We moved to a new house last week. This evening we finally got the boys' bunk beds put together. DS1 is now sleeping on the top bunk. He still wanted to sit and rock with me before falling asleep, though. :-)

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DS1 had his first dental cleaning today. He did great! About 6 months ago he had a "counting" visit and visual inspection but without the cleaning and fluoride. Little brother watched and had his teeth counted, but he refused the cleaning. He doesn't like noises (unless he's making them) so the suction (aka "Mr. Thirsty") spooked him a bit. He did better than last time, though, when he wouldn't

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DS1 now readily and easily answers the questions "What grade are you in?" and "Where do you go to school?" without my help. Last August, when we did not enroll him in public school kindergarten, we talked a lot about the fact that we homeschool and that he doesn't go to school somewhere else. It really threw him (and me) when, after being asked his age, he was asked if he was "in kindergarten",

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DS1 just brought me a lemonade in a tall glass glass. I had commented that my tummy didn't feel good, so he said he would be me something to drink. I was expecting water in a paper bathroom cup. He went to the kitchen, got a glass from the high cabinet (using the cooler for a step), got the lemonade from the refrigerator (in a 1/2 gallon milk jug), poured my lemonade, put the jug back, then

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Today I discovered that my old-style archive links didn't work any longer, so I switched (finally) to the new template format for this blog. I have lost most of my sidebar entries, but I did save the template to a text file. So if I ever get around to taking care of this blog again, I'll add the milestone links back into the sidebar.

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Happy Birthday! Wow, DS1 is 5. Time flies. I've had this blog for over 6 years!We had quite a fun filled day today. DH took the day off work to spend with us. DS1 has been asking for a surprise birthday party for over a month. We said "surprise" at him once this morning at home, then we got the homeschool co-op group to say it when he arrived today. We brought a cake to share, and DS1 was quite

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I gave DS1 a hair cut Sunday evening. He will now hold still very well for me. I use scissors instead of the electric clippers, though, because he doesn't like them anymore. The last time I got my hair cut I mentioned that I have cut the boys' hair myself. My stylist gave me a few pointers. I was already doing a decent job, so I guess I had watched in the mirror enough over the years that I had a

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Yesterday DS1 turned 4!The day started with a huge, but brief, hail storm. DSs slept right through it. I picked up some hailstones to save and found many about golf ball size, and several almost tennis ball size. One was broken in half and I could see the layers of how it grew from pea size to much larger. Very cool.When DS1 awoke, I showed him the front yard and we talked about hail a little.

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DS1 trimmed his own fingernails this evening. He did a pretty good job and only asked me to help once. I was really impressed. He did say, "ouch," once, but it must not have been too bad because I didn't see blood on any of his fingers when he showed them to me when he finished.

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The past 2 mornings on the way to daycare, DS1 has had some interesting things to say. Yesterday we took turns saying rhymes. He would say a word, then I said one that rhymed with it. Then I would say a word, and he would say a rhyme. This morning he told me a story about a witch who took her magic wand and changed the weather of the seasons. The people in his story didn't like it.

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Last night DH got out a book that he bought for DS1. It has a 23 note keyboard (14 white, 9 black) and each page has a song with the notes color and number coded to the keys. They played several songs together with DS1 playing and DH singing the words. The rhythm wasn't anywhere close to right, but at this point that doesn't matter. DS1 liked the book and keyboard so much that he not only played

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In our church's nursery, two small coat racks with colored baskets were recently mounted on opposite walls. The baskets are red, blue, yellow and green. Yesterday, I was watching the kids because our regular caregiver was absent. From across the room, I saw DS1 standing by one rack. He looked across the room at the other rack, then back at the close one, then at the far one again. Then he

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Yesterday was quite a day for me witnessing things that DS1 knows. We have a large wall calendar hanging in the bathroom (because that's where we will see it every morning and every night). As I was sitting, and he was standing facing the calendar, he said, "Tomorrow is March third." Impressed, I said, "Yes, it is." Then he proceeded to tell me that March fourth comes next, then March fifth. He

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DS1's daycare teacher sometimes sends home suggestions for activities that go along with a letter of the week. She calls it "homework" which bugs me, but I just ignore that part now.This week is D and one of the suggestions was doing some Dot To Dots and bringing them in. I drew a boy; it ended up with 47 dots so I did a simpler one with 18. DS1 wanted to do the one with lots of dots first, so he

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My oh my it has been a long time since I blogged here! Oh well.Last night, while reading our 2 bedtime stories, one of which is the current favorite, Froggy's Sleepover, DS1 wanted Daddy to call Max "Froggy" and to call Froggy "Max". The boys usually giggle and laugh at this book a lot anyway because of the sound effects, but switchin names makes them even sillier. DS1 also requested that

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Yesterday we went to a baseball game. While DS2 and I found seats in our regular area, DH and DS1 bought dinner. As they came back, DH carried a tray with 2 drinks & 3 fries, and DS1 carried a tray with 3 hamburgers and a hotdog. He looked like such a big boy! A nice lady seated on the first row tried to help him ("let me take that for you", said very nicely), but he said, "I can carry it myself.

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Last night DS1 wanted to sleep in his underwear and shorts. He usually wears a "pull-up" to bed instead of underwear so we can all sleep better. I told him that after he "went potty" aside: (I tried to use "toliet" instead "potty" but 9 hours a day of "potty" beat 3 hours of "toilet". Now DS2 says "potty", too.) he could wear underwear if he would sleep in his bed (instead of on the floor) and

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On the way to daycare, DS1 likes to count the bridges we go over. This morning he started counting them in Spanish: una, dos, dos (oops). There is a lot of time between bridge 2 & 3, so I said 'tres' and then he said 'tres'.

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A couple of nights ago, DS1 wanted to sing some songs after we had turned the light off at bedtime. I sang one to him, but then he asked for another one that I didn't know. So I asked him to sing it for us, to teach us. And he did! It was Five Green and Speckled Frogs, and it has 5 verses, counting down from 5 to 1. DS1 repeated a little bit because sometimes he didn't remember which number verse

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Sunday DS1 told me "You're my best friend in the world." I practically melted with happiness.Yesterday I drove home a different way, to see a house that is for sale. This morning I drove the same way, in reverse. He said, "Mommy's driving silly. This is how we came home yesterday."He knows that he daycare class is going to see Goldilocks and the Three Bears later this week. They have been talking

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Mothering Magazine Article: Let The Healing Begin -- Okay, this made me cry it's so loving. I find it difficult to teach boundaries in a loving way when I'm sleep deprived, which is quite often right now. I want my sons to explore and be excited and loving and honest, but I also want them to stop when I ask or tell them to.

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Last night DH discovered that it is time for us to start checking DS1's pants pockets when we do laundry. At church on Sunday the pastor passed out rocks. Although DS1 insists that they are "stones". Anyway, the two that came home with him are clean now. He's growing up, and I'm excited!

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Yesterday DH and I had a parent-teacher conference with DS1's "Toddler" teacher and the "Preschool" teacher at daycare. Since his birthday is this coming Sunday (turning 3!), he will "transition" next week, spending a little more time each day in the new room. There are 2 or 3 kids in the room that have moved up within the past month, so at least he will have a few friends that he knows.We were

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Well, we didn't have to use diapers on the next Monday after my previous post was written. It did take some convincing Friday evening to get him to wear underwear, but he did, and it went fine. He woke up (and woke me up) do go potty during the night. The next night he had an accident. The next time he woke up again. Then he kept having night accidents, sometimes two a night. A few nights before

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What You Should Expect of Your Child - The Natural Child Project

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We are having a hard time with toilet time. At daycare DS1 eagerly wears underwear, goes to the potty on his own, and has few accidents. At home he is very resistant to using the potty or wearing underwear. Except for 2 days (3 times total) he has not gone at home. He asks for diapers instead. So we change him into a diaper, believing that it needs to be his decision. He is obviously physically

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DS1 is wearing underwear today! He has been since about 9 this morning. The past 2 weeks he was used the toilet both at daycare (many times) and at home (3 times). His teacher suggested "toilet training" begin Monday (3 days ago), but since he was not interested in the toilet at home all weekend we waited. She doesn't recommend pull-ups in most cases, since they feel like diapers to the kids.

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Parents put kids in charge of school -- An article about unschooling.

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Mothering Magazine Article: A Fresh Approach to Tantrums

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KittyBook! The Ultimate WAHM Business Directory. Work At Home Mother-Owned Businesses. -- I found an auction site (other than eBay) that specializes in kid things. That led me to this directory of businesses.

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Feingold Program Home Page -- We don't have serious problems, but sometimes when DS1 is more hyper than usual I wonder about food additives.

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Once again, it's been too long between blogs, but I just had to write about how excited DS1 was helping Daddy decorate the Christmas tree that we finally got put up tonight. He hung most of the ornaments himself. We only needed to do a little rearranging because the tree will be inside the playpen again this year. DS2 still puts everything in his mouth and we don't trust him to not try to eat the

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Blog to a Baby :: Publish Status

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It's a good thing that I am keeping this blog for my own enjoyment only and maybe to share with DS in the future. I know I haven't written in a long time. Life with 2 toddlers is quite hectic and it seems that whenever I think of something I want to blog, I'm either nowhere near a computer, or can't take the minute or 2 to login and blog it. On to the topic of today... last night DS1 read 2

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Is Your Preschooler Gifted?

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At daycare they didn't celebrate Halloween this year, they talked about Fall Harvest. And the kids got to dress up and go to the college campus and "harvest" candy from other people who were dressed up. Hmmmm. It's all symantics. A co-worker told me that the kids would be breaking a pinata at 10 am, so I went to the building and saw DS1. He had not been interested in any costumes when we went

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You're Welcome Yesterday DS1 said "You're Welcome" after I thanked him for something. We have never "taught" him "You're Welcome", just modeled it a lot. We have prompted for "please" and "thank you" on occasion, but don't much anymore. DH says thank you a lot but not please as much. So does DS1... hmmm. :-) DS1 even prompted me for "please" once last week when I asked for something without

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DiaperFreeBaby -- I'm interested in this because I would like DS1 to start using the toiliet in as natural way as possible.

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Alfie Kohn - Parenting - Selected Publications - Five Reasons to Stop Saying "Good Job!" -- At first I thought I would not agree with (or like) this article. Even part way through it I was questioning (which is good, actually). But it made me realize that I am pretty good at this. My son says "I did it!" a lot, and he even said "You did it!" to his little brother when he sucessfully put the ball

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Talking well While doing one of his new jigsaw puzzles this morning, DS1 stuck his tongue out and said, "hair in my mouth". I tried to clear it for him since he didn't seem to be getting it. The great part is that he used to just say, "owie" when he got something like a hair in his mouth. That incident reminded me that at DS2's birthday party on Sunday, the boys' cousin was surprised at how

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finally waking up: Pictures! -- I posted my first comment on someone else's blog!

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Update Gee, I haven't written in a long time. DS1 has done a bunch of cute things lately. Yesterday was DS1's birthday, and after DH and I sang "Happy Birthday" to DS2, DS1 said "Happy Birthday to me," wanting us to sing to him to. So we did. :-) He can hop like a frog, with hands and feet, and moving forward. And he "hops like a Tigger", jumping straight up and sometimes landing on his feet,

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Reminiscing Last night I talked with a friend who confided that she and her husband are using fertility treatment. I told her about my blog. Hi, J. After pointing her to the first entry this morning I started reading it again myself. It's been almost 3 1/2 years since I started blogging. This blog has evolved quite a bit. First it was fertility treatment, then pregnancy, then baby stuff. Now I

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Wisconsin Stem Cell Research Program, University of Wisconsin-Madison

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NIH Stem Cell Information Home Page

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Embryonic Stem Cell Research at UW-Madison -- I finally talked with the Dr. at Univ. Wisconsin about our embryo donation for stem cell research. We have had the papers for a couple of months but were not supposed to sign them until talking with a doctor from UW. He asked a few medical-like questions and a few psycological / reasons for doing this -like questions. Part of the reason for the

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Cuteness on the playground Today while I was in DS2's room at daycare (for lunch nursing), DS1's class was out on the playground. One of DS1's friends saw me and DS2 through the window and started shouting for DS1. When he didn't come, the friend went and got him and brought him to the window, holding his hand. It was so cute! Then both big boys were waving & saying "hi" & knocking on the window

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International Children's Digital Library - Read free children books online -- This link was sent to me today by an unschooling email list that I read. It looks great so far!

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KatsLair.com Version: Dangerous - a teen's own unschool page

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Email to Unschooling In The Midwest group Hi, I'm Nancy. I'm mom to 2 boys, ages 25 months & 8 months. I love watching my sons figure things out and learn on their own, so I am learning all I can about homeschooling (specifically unschooling) now. I really like that the more I learn about unschooling, the more I like it and the more I realize how it is right for me. (Take learning about

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What is Unschooling? - LeapingFromTheBox.com

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Transition week DS1 is "transitioning" from his 1-2 year olds room to the 2-3 year olds room this week. At lunch I peeked in on him in the older room. They were just getting ready for nap. His (current) teacher told me that he went over there before breakfast & was doing very well. I think it helped that one of the assistants that has been in his room all semester is in the older room 2 days a

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Puddles are fun This morning on the way in to daycare, DS1 found a small puddle. We stopped and he stomped and splashed. I smiled. Then we went in.

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Car trouble On the way home from work Tuesday night, we lost power steering. We were only about a mile from home, so I figured I could make it. About a block later, the "electrical systems" light (the battery shaped one) came on. I drove slowly. Soon the temperature started to rise. When it hit the red I pulled over and stopped. We walked home from there. Fortunately it was only about 5 more

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Field trip to the zoo DS1 is going to the zoo on a field trip this morning. This is his first daycare field trip that neither I nor DH are going along. I dropped off his carseat (along with his wagon) this morning.

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Toddlers: To Tame or to Trust - The Natural Child Project

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Surviving the Toddler Years - The Natural Child Project

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Happy 2nd Birthday! Saturday was DS1's 2nd birthday. We got him a wagon (to share with DS2) a 3-CD set of Toddler games (Pooh, Mickey, Roly Poly Olie), and a puzzle of his name. We had cupcakes with dinner but he didn't quite "get" blowing out the candles. On Sunday we had a family dinner at Ryan's (a restaurant). Almost everyone was there. One SIL and 2 of her kids didn't make it, but my

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Au Pair in America - My niece is considering going to college where I work. Since she lives out of the county, she must either live in the dorms or with a relative. Even though I recommend the dorms, we have offered to let her live with us. This webpage has some Au Pair tips that might be relevant to us, even though she isn't going to be doing that much child care and isn't from another country.

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Mothering Magazine -- Anger Management for Moms: "Let's face it, most stuff with kids is small stuff." -- This line is a good one. Yesterday evening, while DS2 was asleep and DH had just left for several hours, I put DS1's silverware in the dishwasher after dinner. He saw me do it. He didn't want me to close the dishwasher. I closed it anyway and he started crying and saying "open". After a

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Upperroom | Devotional - God's Waves - a nice reminder of how children and parents can be reminder of God's interaction with humans.

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The Unprocessed Child: Living Without School - Free Sample Chapter

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Strewing Their Paths -- Today have been a very unworking day. I missed 2 hours, separately for dropping off my car for some recall work, then picking it up again. I've been reading a lot. I realized that I still learn best in the unschooling way. I've been reading like crazy about something that interests me right now, but have barely looked at a book that I "need" to read for work. I've even

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Mary Griffith - On Unschooling -- Saving some more links for future reference.

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Late Night Learning

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Exploration Place DS1's daycare class went to a children's museum / activity center called Exploration Place on a field trip this morning. I went too. It was great fun! I tried not to point him toward or away from anything in particular. He loved climbing up a spiral staircase (about 2 floors worth) and checking out what was up there. I did carry him down, though, because they were metal and

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Unschooling.com's Message Boards -- Kansas Connections

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NHEN New to Homeschooling - main page - Beginning Considering - Homeschooling Information from the National Home Education Network

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Sandra Dodd on Unschooling

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Unschooling the Gifted Child: Defining the Challenge from Within -- the definitions and information here may be very important for our family soon.

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What is Unschooling? -- Mama's fantasy du jour.

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When a Child Says "No." - The Natural Child Project -- We're starting to get lots of "no" answers and statements from DS1. I do already talk to him about his feelings and acknowledge that he is sad or hurt or upset. This goes a step further, though.

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American Infertility Association Press Release: First IVF Registry - I read about this in Prevention magazine. I want to register DS1. I believe it is good to help with research, for the good of society and also for our possible benefit. I have not found out how to get him on the registry yet. It will be interesting to compare his general health with his younger brother, who was conceived without

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I did it! DS1 spoke a complete 3 word sentence this morning: I did it. We were putting pop-beads together, and he hooked the 2 ends together to make a circle, then clearly said, "I did it." Wow!

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Is Your Child Ready? -- DS1 shows some toilet training signs or being ready, but we're going to wait a while yet. We do encourage him to sit on his toilet whenever he wants, and he often sits next to it on the floor when having a BM in his diaper.

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Chart Jungle's Free Charts

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Bed! DS1 slept in his new toddler bed all night last night. We did find him on the floor (with his blanket) about 11pm, right before we went to bed. DH lifted him back onto the bed and he didn't wake up, so we don't know if he crawled out of bed with his blanket or if he rolled out (onto 2 pillows that are there just for that reason) and didn't wake up.

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Preschool Activities

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Preschool Activities

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K12: Education for a Lifetime - Online Education, K-12 Curriculum, Virtual School, Homeschool, Home School, History, Math, Language Arts, Science, Music, Art, Cyber School, Cyberschool

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Dad's and Mom's Corners, by Steve and Teri Maxwell -- I have read many of these articles so far and am getting a lot out of them.

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Dad's and Mom's Corners, by Steve and Teri Maxwell

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Managers of Their Homes, a book by Steve and Teri Maxwell, on Titus 2

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Suggested Readings on Homeschooling

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Five in a Row: First Things First

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Five in a Row: In the end ...

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Five In A Row Here are several links to FIAR, a method / curriculum for using early reading for life long learning preparation (and homeschooling, too). Five in a Row: Parents Treasury of Creative Ideas for Learning Readiness

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Bedtime issues We are still having trouble at bedtime. DS1 cries and even kicks when DH is holding him. When put in his crib, he cries and reaches out to be picked up. What's a parent to do? Finally, after a couple of 5 minutes crying in bed alone, and being held but still crying, I went into the bedroom too, and DS1 calmed down and was asleep in 5 minutes. The odd part is that I didn't hold,

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Sleep, glorious sleep After a really rough night Monday, last night was wonderful! DS1 had a bit of resistance getting to bed, but that is common when DH is gone and DS2 is awake and needy at DS1's bedtime. Finally they were both asleep. DS1 slept until I woke him a little after 7 this morning. DS2 woke only 2 times during the night to eat, one of which was about 5 minutes before my alarm clock.

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Mothering Magazine -- Experts -- About a 2 year old waking a lot at night.

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I haven't blogged in quite a while. We had a nice break from work and daycare. We drove from Kansas to Idaho (2.5 days in the car each way) to celebrate Christmas with paternal Grandma and Grandpa, and had a good visit. DS1 has fought getting into the carseat both mornings this week but is fine after a few minutes on the road and is happy to arrive at daycare. This morning he even fought

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Product Comparison

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Handheld Databases: What's Out There

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Flu DS1 was sent home with a fever last Wednesday and finally was able to go back to daycare today. He was fever free Monday morning, so we thought he would go back Tuesday, but Monday afternoon after his nap he had a fever again, so we stayed home yesterday, too. All day yesterday he was fever free, so we went in today and I went back to work. He did not want to leave me this morning. After

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Advent Traditions DS has an Advent calendar with stickers this year. I got several of them for all of the kids in the church nursery. So far DH has been the one to help him everyday. We missed yesterday, so he got to put 2 on this morning. He now likes stickers! We are making plans to drive to Idaho to celebrate Christmas (between Christmas and New Years) this year. The boys are changing so

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Remembers, but no grudges I watch DS1 a bit today during my lunch break. He played "ring around the rosie" with a teacher and friend at daycare. It's nice that he doesn't hold a grudge, because I am pretty sure that the classmate was the one who bit him on Friday. I didn't see it happen, but when I was observing over lunch on Friday I saw this same girl push my son and another child and bite a

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Growing up DS1 is changing so fast lately! He is saying new words almost daily. He is also starting to exert his independence, both at meal time and at sleep time. I got to watch him interacting with the other kids several times last week when I dropped DS2 off at daycare at noon. Today I saw the last part of lunch and some playtime. It's just amazing, watching him grow!

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Last Day Today is my last full day of maternity leave. I need to do a load of laundry for the boys, and I hope to bake some cookies. I have a recipe for Monster Cookies that is wonderful! They are peanut butter, chocolate chip, M&M, oatmeal and taste great.

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The CHILD Disorder - The Natural Child Project -- This must be genetically transmitted. Both of my boys are showing signs of it, and I'm sure that I had it too! We are doing many of the approaches that minimize difficulties.

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