Serenity Now

I hate it when you don't feel optimal.  The past couple of days you've had a scratchy throat as well as a stuffed up and runny nose.

This almost always messes with your sleeping, and on nights like those, you often toss and turn and wake up quite a few times just because you are so uncomfortable and unable to breathe properly.

So we do what we can - give you some medicine, put Vicks on  your chest and raise your pillows some.  But when you do finally settle down and the medicine kicks in, you get to sleep like a baby again....

Gr 2 Week 2 Library Books Read

Grade 2 Wk 2

We started a new journaling book last week, and so far so good :)

I think the part you love the best is the drawing that goes with the story :)

At this point, you are able to pay attention for quite a while, but you still learn best when you are engaged, like in a game or something..

So, we've been playing Math games and when you get a sum right, you get to play a short game on the computer.. I used a website that had the Advent calendar on it, so that there was an element of surprise as to what game would pop up.  THAT part got you all excited.



And of course, there's all the doodling too...



And sometimes we start off like this...



We progress to this...



and end up like THIS.



But hey, we still get the work done and learn and have fun too :)



We also did a scientific experiment.. in the little sink in one of the RV toilets.  You were quite thrilled to get to do some hands on stuff.

We started with our hypothesis that objects needed to be in the center of the "lily pad" for balance, and not sink.



Then, we started placing the animals on different parts of our lily pad to see what would happen..



and then of course, at the end of the lesson, there is usually chaos and mayhem :)

An Ever Expanding Vocabulary

I had had just about enough of the dog(s) that day, what with THIS,

( I had laid a new loaf of bread that we had just bought from Walmart on the washing machine, thinking I would come back for it in a minute...only to come back to a CRIME SCENE )

THIS, ( there is dog hair in the FRIDGE, people! )

and THIS ( perpetually ).

Then, while I was putting dinner on the table, you came out from the washer/dryer area and the following conversation ensued..

Jaxon: "I think the dog just eliminated in there." 

For a moment, I thought I heard you say "eliminated", but that sounded terribly like grown-up vocabulary, 

Mommy: *incredulously* "Did you just say that the dog ELIMINATED in there?"

Jaxon : "Yes, Mommy.  The dog just eliminated in there."

Mommy : *still incredulous* "You mean like pee'd or poo'd?"

Jaxon : "Yes, Mommy. ELIMINATED."

Well, okay then. :)

*illustrations from lingvistov.com*

Teeth Update..

The 2 front teeth, to be exact.....

( edit 9/28/2016 ) : I just realised I didn't post on tooth #7 which was the OTHER front incisor falling out. I hope we're not being THAT jaded by now, coz I plan on at least attempting to document each tooth as it erupts/is lost! )

They are peeking out from the gums and it seems like just a little bit more every day. Can't wait to see what you look like with those new chompers once they are all the way in! ( or is that "out"? )

And just take a look at those mamelons......