Slacking already

Okay, I'm slacking already. lol I forgot to mention that the boys also colored mittens the other day. I said that we would do something with them when they woke up from nap. Oops. We will get to it eventually. Maybe Monday? See what I mean about discipline?

And, and, and I forgot another book we had read - Baby Einstein Seeing and Counting? I think that's the title. I will have to check because I haven't logged the book yet. We did lots of counting up to five (yes, I know TJ should know higher number amounts than that - but who am I do discourage him?) and I was trying to reinforce answering in complete thoughts. For example, if I ask how many lily pads are there. Instead of TJ simply answering 3, he was practicing answering 3 lily pads. We'll work on answering in complete sentences when he gets this concept down pat.

Anyway, another "good" thing that we have been doing is going to the library regularly. The boys have storytime together at the 'little library' on Wednesdays (although TJ didn't want to go this week) and TJ has storytime on his own at the 'big library' on Thursdays. It gets us out of the house. The boys get interaction with others and we get to borrow MORE books. I borrowed the books on spiders. I think TJ will be excited about that. I will have to expand on that subject. But I feel like we're all over place. I keep thinking "I need to do this! I need to do that!" It just ends up that I feel more scattered and doing nothing. :(

Like yesterday we went to the library. TJ has a 45 minute (well actually 35 min this week since I couldn't find a spot and then screwed up trying to park! But that's a whole 'nother story!) storytime. The librarian (still don't know his name!) is great and very engaging. I know TJ has a lot of fun going to storytime now. But I can't say I did a whole lot more than that yesterday. I have got to get my act together!

My good deed for the day was going over flashcards with TJ today. LJ was going over flashcards, too. More like grabbing them! lol Anyway, the flashcards had pictures along with the words printed on them. On the backside of the flashcards were just the words for the more advanced readers. I was reviewing some of the flashcards - those that LJ let me keep! Then for the simple 3 letter words I thought I'd ask TJ to figure them out. I thought he did a pretty good job. He would sound the letters separately but be able to put them together pretty quickly. I was quite proud of him. Then for the longer words, I just showed him the picture. TJ still made an attempt to sound out the words even though he could have easily just looked the picture to figure it out. With one picture the word was glass, not a word we normally use so TJ said cup. I asked him to look at the word and he figured it out. Yay for TJ. Then he started getting loopy. For some reason TJ couldn't figure out the word bed. He was also telling me that the letter b was the letter n. Huh? And while the b and the d were different letters to him, he still called them by the same letter name. I just chalked it up to him being tired of the drill.

We read the Little People Sonya Lee Visits the Doctor and talked about how shots can hurt. TJ was very brave and said that he would get the shot despite knowing the pain. I reminded him that I would not let anyone do anything to harm him. I try my best to tell the truth to my boys. I do not like lies. I may withhold truths but I will not lie to them. This is not to say I will never lie to my boys, but it is certainly my intention. I am not a very good liar. I definitely do not have a poker face and have a very guilty conscience (even when I have done nothing wrong!) So it's better off for me to not lie. I probably wouldn't be able to keep my "facts" straight. lol