December Already

My precious angels are growing too fast. I love this age; it's all chaos and hectic, and nothing stays clean for more than 2 minutes, but they are all so funny right now. Last night while they were in the bath, Juddson was holding up letters, and I said "B" and he said "CDE" Wow! I was amazed he knew that. He thinks he is a big kid. Harper apparently knows her letters too. She thinks she spells her name "KKR, KKR" instead of "H A R P E R" and yesterday she said "Write my name" So, I did, without saying anything.... I had written "Harper" and she said "No, write my Kkrkkr." and so, again, without saying anything, I wrote "Kkrkkr" and she said "Thank you..." and took it and put it on the front of the fridge with 6 magnets around it and showed it to Judd, telling him to look at her "kkrkkr." Which he did, and promptly ripped off and she screamed, and I got it back from him and gave it to her and she put it on the side of the stove, with the same 6 magnets, to hide it from Judd.... it worked.

When the kids get in trouble, we give them their lecture and say, "Do you understand?" Until they look us in the eye and respond that yes they do understand... And Judd kicked me while I was changing his diaper today and I said "Juddson, no no... You don't kick mommy, that hurts mommy. If you kick again, you will get a spanking, do you understand?" I thought he would give his usual response of "UH HUH!" but to my surprise his sweet little voice said "I un stand." AHHH Makes me cry-- he is the sweetest kid. Well, I can't say that, Harper and Noah are precious too.

Noah is really into making Mii's on the Wii.... and he's pretty good at it too. He made Scott and Granny tonight, and they are cute-- pretty funny. I think he likes creating Miis almost as much as he likes playing games. He's off of MarioKart for now and likes "Tewis" which is Tennis...and he has to have both controls and play two person, so he's playing against himself.

Yesterday morning, when I went to get Juddson out of bed, I realized he'd gotten sick through the night sometime and had slept in throw up... Yuck I know... but he must have slept through it because I didn't hear anything on the monitor... anyways, I had just gotten the other two ready to take Noah to school and came back in and told them Judd was sick and we were going to stay home today. I was holding Judd and said "Oh, you poor boy" and Noah ran up and put his nose on mine, like he likes to do when he has something very important to ask or say and said "I a poor boy too." He thinks that if he's a poor boy or sick, he'll get to skip school. Every morning when we are getting ready he says something hurts or he's hot or sick or something. He does love to go to Jennifer Michelle school, as it's now called. They are doing a great job with him and I am so thankful he likes to go. Today I watched the end of his OT session with Jennifer and they were swinging on this big thing together, well, not really swinging, just swaying back and forth really slowly and he was holding scissors the right way and cutting paper all by himself... that's a big deal because he's never been able to hold scissors the right way. I have also caught him holding a pencil the right way too-- which is awesome. And a couple of days ago, I was on the computer and he got in my lap and grabbed a pen and made a circle, and a cross, just in 2 seconds and was so proud!!! YEAH Noah--we are so proud of him for improving so much with his fine motor skills!

Harper Jane is still not pooping in the potty, it drives me nuts, because she knows when she needs to go and she goes and hides and then comes out of hiding with this little smile behind thumb and "pink elephant cat" and I know before I smell it what she's done. She will wear panties and pee in the potty, but cries for a diaper when she needs to poop, I don't get it.... Today I tried to bribe her... I told her if she pooped in the potty 5 times, she could get a toy... I said "How about Hungry hungry hippo" because she sees the commercial and talks about it all the time. And she lit up and said "Yeah!!! Hungry hungry hippo" So, I told her I would make her a chart and when she got 5 stars, she'd get the game.... She was so pumped... and not even 2 hours later, she pooped again-- IN HER DIAPER... ugh.. I don't know what it's going to take for that girl. She is so funny though, if she sees something like that game that she wants she'll say "I want that for my Christmas list, or I want that for my birthday present." Want want want... these kids know that word... sometimes it's need... I need that toy mommy...

Anyways, I am going to go make a star chart... It's not letting me spellcheck for some reason... so sorry for all the misspellings in your previous reading... :)