November 11, 2005

• Thanks Wommie for all the ideas...

  Unfortunately we've done them all, or varieties of them.  
  We've played with the base ten cubes, worked on the number charts, and
  divided legos and egg cartons into groups.   I guess we'll
  keep doing it.    She gets the basic principle, just
  can't keep them straight in her head.  

  Zeria is extremely smart, in many regards.   But she's also
  *sigh*  dealing with the lovely drugs her mother took while she
  was pregnant.    Somethings just take longer to
  click.   So far with time they've eached
  clicked.    And she *is* reading...so now we go back to
  focus on math.

  The one thing I found online was to play rythm games with the number
  patterns.   So thats what we're doing right
  now.    We pat our legs four times and clap the
  fifth.    Each time we clap we say 5, 10, 15, etc. 
  This is superb for coordination as well, and hysterical to watch Rainee
  attempt it.    Its one of those things we can all do
  together, and worth a try.  

  If we can actualy master the whole rythm thing we might start playing a
  version of Who stole the cooki jar...only using numbers
  instead.   Zeria stole 5 cookies from the cookie jar. 
  Who me yes you,   NO Sam stole 10 cookies from the cookie
  jar.  We shall see.  *grin*

  In other news from this house...Jeremiah will be one years old on the
  23rd.   I'm trying to figure out how that happened so
  quickly.   And Rob has announced he will not be our last
  child.   Its kind of funny actually, cause he finally saw
  what I did.   Neither of us will ever be happy being retired
  and empty nest.   As tired as my parents get, my husband
  see's that route better then the route his parents took of raising
  there two boys and being done.  Trips to Hawaii, and craft
  projects to entertain them.
     
                                  
  

  So, someday we will find a sibling group that needs some love and add
  them to our family.   But NOT anytime soon...unless of course God
  has a really funny sense of humor.   
  Anyway the picture is of Jeremiah taken this morning.  He's my
  budding pianist you know.   He's walking 5-8 steps, but only
  from daddy to mommy or vice versa.   The rest of the time he
  cruises on everything.

  I woke up this morning to beautiful base piano beating.  thump,
  thump, thump.   I walked around the corner to ask Samuel to
  stop...and realized it was Jer.  HE loooooooooves the
  piano.   All those lovely noises.  *giggles*

  He's gotten so much fun within the last month or so.  He claps his
  hands when he's excited, and shakes his head no emphatically for many
  things.   This morning I told him he was a pain.  
  And he said un uh un uh.   I think he had an opinion about
  that.  LOL   And he's learned to cuddle.   He
  just buried his head into my neck and I want to melt into a puddle of
  goo.   

  My last biological baby....sooooooooo sweet.  

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