I Heard a Scream

Not just a little scream, an "OMG someone needs to go to the ER scream". Ask Chris he was on the phone at the time, I run into the living room and Taylor was holding her tooth, it had been wobbly for a few days and came out while she was watching TV. There was a bit of blood like you would imagine but she saw this as OMG I'm dying!!! You can see from the picture how much she had been crying, silly toothless girl. 2nd tooth and counting.Her favourite toy is modeling her tooth.

Parent/Teacher Conferences

BRAG MOMENT!!!! My girls are amazing!! I already knew this obviously but all three teachers agreed with me in these conferences (yes even Hailey's).
First I had Hailey's and Mrs Carr said she is fabulous, she said something in her has switched and she talks and talks all day. She is one of the more vocal kids in her speech therapy class and answers all the questions in circle time. She is at a 3yr old level on most things but there are a few areas where she is still sitting at a 2.5yr old but she is not worried about this. Hailey still has social issues and doesn't mix too well with the other kids and would much rather play on her own or be with the grown ups. They are encouraging her to play with children at recess and not allowing her to stand with the adults and it seems to be working. Over all they are very impressed with Hailey's improvements over the last few months.

Next was Masie's, the first two graphs are hers. Ms Miller is very impressed with her, her reading and writing skills have blossomed and she loves that she puts so much detail into her stories. She is still very strong in Math and whizzes through the exercises. I asked about her spelling test and she got 100%!!!!! She is just so smart and when she puts her mind to something she can pull anything off. The words were:

1. Lampshade
2. Infrequent
3. Contrast
4. Comprehend
5. Ostrich
6. Pilgrim
7. Subtract
8. Hundred
9. Explode (Yes I will be spell checking these so I don't embarrass myself,lol)

Ms Miller is very proud of her and so am I. One more thing, they get given a short story and have to read 90 (before they leave 2ND grade) words in one minute and comprehend what they have just read and answer questions. At the beginning of the year Masie got 26 words, last weeks test she got 86, this is a massive improvement.

Taylor was last but not least. I am so over the moon proud of Taylor, she has come so far in a very short amount of time. She is one the top kids in her class and she just blow the tests out of the water. Example- test one was four pictures on each sheet and the teacher said a letter sound and she had to point to the picture that began with that sound, she had to get 15 in one minute to pass the test, Taylor got 36!!!!! All her tests went similar and Mrs Tade couldn't believe it. The first graph shows that she is already above where she needs to be at graduation time. I'm so proud of her and Mrs Tade cant believe how far she has come. One funny little thing about Taylor though, I found out she moved her clip, can you believe it, Taylor moved her clip!! I cant believe the little turd didn't tell me, she started laughing when I told her but she was embarrassed and told me she got the chance to move it back to green so it didn't count.

This line is almost vertical, can you feel the pride beaming off me!? Well done girls!!!

Foto Friday

**Update, I hope you enjoy this Foto Friday because I'm about to post it and its 10.02pm on Friday night and I started writing the post in relaxing time Thursday afternoon**

This week went pretty quickly, the kids only had a 3 day week so maybe that's why. Its starting to get really hard without Chris here, he left a month ago now and we are all ready to be back together. Not too much longer. Again nothing too interesting has happened. Ive been trying to get into shape but apparently thinking about it doesn't move the pounds, weird I thought it would,lol. So I am going to try hard this week to start the new me, hopefully Ill give you good news next Friday. OK on with the good stuff:

Friday- We have Hailey being crazy after her relaxing bath. Her vocabulary is getting so much better, instead of saying "I take bath" (like she normally would) she asked me "I take bath because I is cold, I want to stay in bath forever" That's the longest sentence I think she has ever put together. Saturday- It was a lovely day, I was cleaning and kicked the girls outside to play and get some fresh air. I made the kids homemade lunchables which they LOVE, but I had just swept and mopped my floor so I decided to "treat" them and allowed them to eat on the trampoline. They were excited and had fun and my floors stayed clean while I sat and ate my lunch in peace while watching TV. Everybody wins!

Sunday- Lucky! That's the name of this cute little mouse, a very appropriate name I thought. This mouse is now a pet and lives in Masie's room in a lovely new case with a wheel and a cosy bed. She was not bought to be a pet, one of the negative points of having snakes and lizards they enjoy these cute little things for lunch. Lucky was bought for Jangles, Jangles grabbed her and threw her to the wall and lucky survived that and ran off. I was sad for her which I try not to do, I knew jangles would get her later and if not the frog would defiantly get her in the evening. Next morning she was still there and was happy as anything, she was running up and down. Masie said "can we keep her" I answer "we don't keeper feeders and you know it" "I know Mum but she seems different" all of a sudden I find myself shouting "get her out before she gets eaten!!" She is gorgeous and very friendly.

Monday- Hailey loves to help me make lunch, she puts on her chefs outfit and helps me out. I actually love it, its a special time and she enjoys every minute of it.

Tuesday- The girls enjoy taking a muffin to school in their lunch boxes so we whipped up a few batches, the house smelt delicious for hours.

Wednesday- Three preschool books full of hard work and loads of great memories. All the preschoolers finished their books within a day or two of each other. Now we need to get new ones:) Our new preschooler Lexie will need one too!

Thursday- The kids are off for 2 days for parent/teacher conferences so I had a full house. I took them across the road to the school park for about an hour and a half to run off some energy. This was our last day with Daymen.

It might be close to Saturday but its still Friday, I actually made it!!

Mini Lava Lamps

My Preschoolers love hands on experiments, I tried Masie's Lava Lamp with them with smaller bottles and they were thrilled and took pride in their experiment. They took it in turns and waited patiently for their go, they were able to do every part themselves apart from the oil where they needed a little help pouring.

Look how clever Masie is

I'm so proud of Masie, here she is doing a spelling test of her new words. They are huge compared to what words she has been bring home and just a few days ago she only got 3 right when we practiced. Now check her out!!

Girlie Nights 1-21-11 and 1-22-11

This weeks girlie night didn't go as planned and we were a little upset by it but some times when you are a working Mum things just happen that way unfortunately. Friday started out great, we went to Kmart and I bought the kids a new game. They chose the electrical guess who, it is so much fun and a million times better than the original, I would recommend it to anyone with kids over 6. Bonus, it doesn't have hundreds of cards to mess around with. I also bought Hailey a matching game, it comes in an egg carton and in each egg is an animal that you can break in half. you put all the pieces under the shells and try to match them up. Very fun for toddlers and big kids too. We started off with a bubble bath, and then began with the games, we had just one game of each and then the phone rang. Not to go into too much detail but my two full timers are clashing big time and one parent got upset and had it out with the other parent. To cut a very long story short, the problem child is leaving the daycare, I was on the phone for almost 2 hours back and forth to each parent. After that it was getting late so we just watch a movie, oh and ate Cadbury Creme eggs of course. They didn't want to do a story this week. I promised them we would do another girlie night Saturday to make up for it.

Saturday Night, we started off with dinner with friends, which was lovely and fun. Haven't seen anyone put a fish head on a stick and wave it around like a flag for a while so that was fun. It did turn a little sour when I got home and was really sick but I played it off as well as I could so I didn't ruin the night. I have to say I'm getting a little girlie with all these girlie nights, I did all three of their hairs the way they wanted them done (we have a little book). I was very impressed and I really enjoyed doing it, what! Does this mean I'm a girl!? Still cant master the french plait but one day ill get it I'm sure.

We played some more games and watched Despicable Me, it was almost bed time at the end of the movie I asked them if they wanted to do the story and they said no, so we just left that out. We sat up the table together and colored, I got a piece of paper and drew three circles and passed it to Taylor and said "add something" so she did and passed it on, it went on and on for a long time until we got this amazing master piece that I will treasure. It was so much fun and there is a little bit of all of us in there.

Taylor's First Sleep Over

I almost forgot to do this post, thanks Kristi:)

Last Friday Taylor was invited to sleepover at her friends house and I was totally freaking out about it. So many things running through my head:

• She has never done this before


• Its all the way on base


• What if she doesn't sleep


• What if something happened and I couldn't get there fast enough etc etc

Then I starting thinking like a normal person (I have special tablets,lol) and started thinking:

• OMG she is going to have the best time


• What is she going to remember from this very first sleep over


• The memories will be priceless
  
• She will love every minute of it

Best of all, I know she is safe!! So we dropped her off at 5pm on Friday and picked her up at 10.30 on Saturday. She didn't want to come home, she was FULL of excitement. Sherra (The Mom) told me that they started off with pizza and cookies then games and nail painting, followed by hide and seek and a movie, and finally bath (with bath paints) and story then bed. Can you blame her for not wanting to come home.

All the girls had pillow pets and they were so excited as that wasn't even planned.

I felt happy that she was safe and having a blast, I took the other two out for dinner and we had a little fun of our own. Masie was allowed to sleep in my bed which she thought was awesome, we chatted, read books and even had a sneaky snack in bed. I really enjoyed her sleep over too, but was glad to have her back.

Masie Came in Second Place

We went for the science project awards and was extremely excited and proud when they called Masie's name in second place for the Physics category. This means she gets to go up to the science fair the city is holding in April. So proud of her and all her hard work.

There were three judges, they each left a little comment

Judge 1- Your project was wonderful! Don't be shy, you did great. Best of luck.

Judge 2- Masie, I really liked your report! Don't be afraid to show us just how smart you are!

Judge 3- Good job, I have never seen something like that keep it up!

Girlie Night 1-15-11

We had girlie night on Saturday this week because Taylor, wait for it....... Went on her very first sleep over at her friend Kierlyn's house. Ill post about that soon, its too cute. (Can I secretly say, I really enjoyed it too).
So we did these cool sand art bottles, spoke to Daddy on the web cam, read books, did Masie's hair, ate popcorn and drank smoothies while watching the Bee Movie and wrote our story. Wanna hear it? Well if you do, keep reading, if not WHY, our stories are brilliant!!!

The Macaroni Twist Around

Masie- Once upon a time there was a boy called Macaroni Twist Around, everyone laughed at his name.
Taylor- He went to another school but the other children still laughed a lot when he told them his name.
Hailey- He's making a bear, a tent and eye.
Kerry- He put the eye on the bear and put the bear for a nap in the tent. He was in class a found a friend, his friend was called Angel Hair, everyone laughed at his name too so they stuck together and had fun.
Masie- They didn't know they were cousins, they asked their Mum if they could come over and she said, "you are cousins".
Taylor- They ate cupcakes with cherries on top and played in the sand box.
Hailey- There are playing with a snake "stop it Masie, stop it". Um Angel Hair puts in his mouth.
Kerry- Macaroni shouts "don't eat yourself Angel Hair" they decided they wanted to be special and no longer be laughed at. They made ten thousand cupcakes and built a tower.
Masie- They climbed to the top of the tower and fell into a glass of milk that was floating on a cloud. We found a village made of clouds.
Taylor- We saw midgets selling cookies to Nanny and Grandad, Uncle Rob, Maddie and Auntie Sam. There was a mini dog there called Rumbo, he left foot steps in the village.
Hailey- The dog ate Nanny's bum and nose and teeth and mouth. Mouth hurts, how will she eat.
Kerry- We were having so much fun up there we didn't realize we had been up there for three weeks. Everyone was worried and finally climbed the cupcake tower and found us, the whole village had turned into a fair and full of color. The people in the village never laughed at Macaroni Twist Around and Angel Hair again.

The End!!

I felt a Little Crazy

This morning I felt like letting the kids go crazy, I sent them outside while I put paper down and set out some paper plates filled with paint. I called them in and told them to get undressed and paint!! They were so excited, just look at those messy children. "A messy child is a happy child" that was absolutely the case this morning, I don't often have crazy moments like this so they took advantage.

Two Pots of Candy = Two Great purposes

So here you see two pots of candy, each one is for a very specific purpose. The one on the left has been very carefully counted, these M&M's represent the days Chris has left away from us. There is triple the amount so each child gets to eat one everyday and when the pot is empty he will be home. We are all still having a little bit of a rough time with him gone so this gives us all a visual and it doesn't look that bad measured in M&M's.

The second pot are skittles and they are not measured, Hailey has gone backwards with her toileting. Its been going on for a long time now and once again my Mum gives me the idea of bringing candy into the equation, this is what got her potty trained in the first place. So whenever she pees on the toilet she gets one skittle, and if or when her underwear is wet then she get to choose a skittle and throws it in the bin. If you know Hailey you will know how much she hates this and how hard it is for her to do. So just finishing day two and she has only thrown away 1 skittle. So far so good, only time will tell.

Masie's Amazing Lava Lamp (pictures)

We have been practicing this for a while now, we have tried different colors and come to the decision that the blue looks the best so that's what she is going to use on Thursday in front of the judges. She is a little nervous but I think she will do great for her first science fair. I'm trying to get the message through to her that its about the science of the lamp not how it looks, she focuses more on the prettiness of it, tonight she was very focused on the science part so we will see what happens.Click the picture to make it bigger.

Do you know why I love you?

This is what Masie asked me when I put her to bed tonight. She said I had three tries to guess, my guesses were:

1. Because I'm your Mummy
2. Because I'm kind
3. Because I have blond hair

She replied no!! I love you because you are you!!

Talk about warm my heart when I really needed it. I love being a Mummy. I might not get paid but I get to raise three wonderful little girls and give them the best start in life. That is priceless. She made me focus on what was real, and take each day as it comes. Thank you Masie:-)

Masie's Amazing Lava Lamp (Video)

Masie is in the science fair this year and has chosen to do a lava lamp. She has worked really hard, we have a few tweaks to work on but overall I think she has done fabulous and will impress the judges on Thursday. Photo post to come.

Report cards

The girls got their report cards Friday and I was so happy with them. Masie and Taylor have really pulled up their grades, they have worked hard and got the report card to show for it. I'm very proud of them. Hailey is doing great, last semester she was 25% at her goal and this semester she is 50% that is amazing and I was so happy with all three of them. It was funny because I got them up the table and sat down with a serious face and said, "Ive just read your report cards" they looked really worried. I said in the same blank tone "get your shoes on we are leaving" they kept asking whats wrong, what happened. So I knelt down to them and said you all did so great and you have worked so hard that we are going to the mall for a treat. They screamed so loud and said Thank you Thank you, I told them they did the hard job and now we all get to do something fun. So I said they could each choose something from the art section in Kmart and then their choice of snow cone. They were thrilled and we had the best afternoon, which was followed with a movie (Tangled) with some great friends, Sonya, Faith and Ian. What a great day. I did tell Hailey this was the only time she was allowed to eat yellow snow,lol.