Jesse's continuing to learn new words - this week's crop includes candy and bus. And bus is pronounced buSSSSSH. I ordered a plastic climbing thing and a plastic basketball hoop for him and Jocelyn and they arrived today. Perhaps after this email I will go put them together. Or maybe I'll just leave them out in the rain all night because I'm too tired to get off the couch. Tough call.
Jocelyn had school this week which she continues to love. She says her teacher's name is Miss Maura. I have no idea if that's true because we have no class list and no teacher list. The head teacher sent home a note that they have noticed some of the kids are being manipulative and that she will be sending home articles so that we can put a stop to that - after all, what's to become of us when they are teenagers?
ummm, WHA? First off, this teacher is the director of a day care - is she not aware that kids are manipulative?? And assuming she is, does she sirnply assume that if they are trying to manipulate their teachers that it is working at home? Why is that necessarily true?? Plus, she gave no actual examples, so how am I to know what on earth she's talking about? I told Jocelyn to stop manipulating her teachers and she just stared at me. Of course! Because what on earth does that mean?! I can't help it if she bats her eyelashes and some high school girl falls for it - it certainly doesn't mean that I do! So needless to say, I lost a good deal of respect for her with that note. But whatever, Jocelyn loves it there and I hardly think they'll ruin her in 4 hours a week.
Morgan had a better week this week. His teachers spent the week gathering data about when he was having more 'behaviors' (i.e. scripting/hitting/flapping) and when not. Josh wrote what happened during his morning each day and sent it in. He still gets out of his room but slept until a normal hour all week. I've continued the claritin (though totally forgot tonight) so maybe that's helping with the sleep. I'm hoping for another sale on it so I can pick up some more. I also have coupons for zyrtec and benadryl - anyone know if one of the three is better on outdoor allergies than the others?
Timothy has what appears to be a nasty cold. He lost his voice for a day and said he had a sore throat (and even stayed home from school yesterday) and almost sounded croupy this morning, but other than that has felt alright today and went back to school. But he's Timothy and it takes a bunch to slow him down (although he didn't even fight me tonight at 7:30 when I told him he should go to bed early, so he must be feeling a little sick). I fear for the rest of us! He has a "perfect attendance" party for karate tomorrow that I'm sure he'll want to go to whether he's bleeding out his eyes or not .
All the kids are loving the new weather and wanting to be outside all day. We need to figure out some kind of fence situation. Jocelyn understands the concept of staying on the deck, so she's been given some freedom there. Morgan understands the concept but chooses to ignore it, and Jesse only understands his own intense need to see if he can wedge his head between the slats of the railing - oy.
I managed to impress a coworker with my deal-finding ability this week. Her favorite shampoo was on sale at CVS and I had a bunch of buy 1 get 1 coupons so, long story short, I took her CVS card and got her 5 shampoos and 5 conditioners for $1 ($6 out of pocket, $5 extra care bucks back). She was appropriately impressed. I may have also picked up some additional free things for myself with her card, including a free 4oz baby powder from a coupon that printed while I was there, but I gave her fair warning I'd be doing that, and also gave her 1 each of the free things. Giddy from the idea of virtually free shampoo, she didn't mind! haha
I guess that's it from here! Now to pry my butt from the couch and put together a basketball hoop.
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