We've loved reading these books this Spring.  We've checked out several other books about gardens, life cycles, food chains, and all things chicks and chickens. For "mom school" next week we're going to learn about farm life. 






:: hazel ::

1. loves looking for special rocks on "Rock Island"
2. obsessed with finding quartz
3. has outgrown almost all of her clothes and is down to one pair of shoes
4. is signed up for soccer again
5. has picked out all the books at the library about spring
6. asks everyday when we're moving back to Dallas.
7. always tucks my hair behind my ears and says i look cuter that way



:: henry ::

1. i love the way he falls asleep with his hands behind his head.
2. loves having his jacket hood on all the time.
3. races his dump truck down the hallway everyday.
4. we signed him up for soccer too- no games, just practices though.
5. loves our new library. 
6. loves sneaking food and putting it behind his back and then walks backwards away from me.
:: hazel ::

1. is giving me a run for my money in the listening department.
2. We made a behavior chart and what did she want for her reward for earning stars...McDonalds.
3. feeling pretty good about the fact that that was her third time ever going there
4.  keeps asking me why one of the YMCA childcare workers is always grumpy.
5. loves to announce when she needs to poop.
6. can count to 100 but uses "thousand" and "hundreds" to really make her point. For example- it feels like i haven't eaten in one hundred twenty thousand days.



:: henry ::

1. is saying new words every day!
2. has zero interest in going on the potty...
3. also has zero interest in playing alone, quietly
4. likes putting his clothes on by himself but always wants help with his shoes.
5. every night he asks for the song "in the cottage in the woods" that I learned from Grandma Johnson


thursday tidbits February 2018