March 29, 2009

I asked each kid what they wanted to share this week:

Jocelyn:

Once upon a time Jocelyn get in her house she loves to pee on the potty and poop in the potty and our family loves to love love love and Jocelyn loves her new baby.  The baby's going to stay in our house every day, we're having a new babysitter, the end. Ummmm, once upon a time that puppet looked like this (hand and face signs) and we got three little pigs and the horse and the troll and a royal and a babysitter one and we go back to our school.

Jesse:

Uh, there's a bowl and there's the rice.  Mommy, get your dinner and your beer!  I want all this ones.  I used the potty and pooped - Jesse's got poop in the potty. Cookie Monster is right there (on his shirt) and my eye still hurts (he has some kind of bite on his eyelid AGAIN).

Timothy:

Hello to you all.  Peace from the Lessard house.  In sixth grade I'm going to do chorus.  No further questions.

Well, as you can see, the potty is a big topic of conversation around our house!  Not sure what Jocelyn's preoccupation with babysitters is.

Jocelyn and I went for another run yesterday.  A bit different than last week - after a minute she said she didn't want to run any more and started walking.  I asked her if she wanted to go home and she took off super fast, then started walking again. Pretty much the whole run was like this and I was conflicted.  On the one hand, I didn't want her to run if she didn't want to, on the other, I wanted to get my workout in!  She did a mile in 11:15 despite walking almost half the time.  If she actually kept up a good pace I bet she could outrun me, I had to sprint when she was to keep up with her.  Anyway, we walked for a bit after the mile then ran and walked home.  I pretty much dragged her the last hundred yards.  And as we walked into the driveway I was already beating myself up for being a hockey mom.  Then we had a sip of water and she says "let's do it again.”  Ok, I guess I wasn't that hard on her!

Today it was too rainy to run so we did the 2-P run on Wii Fit (we did the Island Lap twice).  I was struggling to keep up with her and I kept falling down from going too fast, which of course meant she was laughing hysterically AND still running faster than me!

We got the draft of Morgan's 3 year evaluation this week.  Fairly depressing - essentially said he's made little to no progress in any area since 3 years ago.  His reading and math are the level of a beginning second grader.  His teacher is calling Tuesday to discuss.  I'm going to ask her if she thinks we should hold him back.  I'm not exactly anxious for him to get out of school!  Then we have the meeting with all the teachers and principal on Friday morning.  Also the one girl that was very nice and sweet to him since kindergarten moved away and Thursday was her last day.

Jesse has gotten quite competent at the potty and today we're trying out actual underpants!

After Jocelyn and I ran yesterday we all went outside to play.  We got out the inflatable jumping structure and fun was had by all.  Morgan loved it and climbed in before it was even inflated.  Jocelyn waited for it to blow up at least.  Jesse took a while to warm up to it, but once he did, had a ton of fun.

When I was in high school, my mom and I took all the day care kids to Whalom Park and I did the game where you have to guess how fast you can throw a ball and then throw the ball and see how close you were.  I was in line behind a 10 year old boy and we both threw 54mph and I remember thinking, ok, I throw like a 10 year old boy, that's not that bad.  So anyway, the point is, I still throw like a 10 year old boy, and so Timothy and I are quite evenly matched and had a nice time throwing the ball back and forth yesterday.  I only had to dive in front of Jesse once, taking a ball to the hip to keep it from hitting him.

Jesse is at the prime age for thinking farts are funny.  Josh made up a story about Steve the fart and now the kids ask for it daily.  He also randomly shouts out "butt crack!" and then laughs himself into hysterics.  

So anyway, a little back story for the next point - when Timothy and Morgan were little we actually used the word 'penis' but then when Jocelyn came around, well, 'vagina' just isn't a pretty word and so we called it a coochie.  So then for Jesse some how we got in the habit of using 'doodle' (as in - Jesse, I can see your doodle).  So the other day Josh comes in and asks if I want cheez doodle and Jesse starts laughing hysterically and rolling around on the ground turning red "mommy eats doodles!  mommy eats doodles!"  oh dear.

Jocelyn has mastered the stink eye and now she tells you when she's doing it.  When she gets mad at you she says "I'm mad, I'm going to give you the stink face" and then makes a face.