Happy Artist

Last night was Lydia's school's art show. Lydia was excited to receive a ribbon for her clown. She also showed her small clay pot. After the art show was the music performance. She had fun singing songs with the first, second, and third grades.

Mom is moving her office :-)

Mom jokes that her recliner is her office. Other than the couple hours a week she teaches a live seminar with a microphone online, she does all of her other work for her jobs from her chair. She uses her laptop, keeps a bag with books and files behind her chair, and has the printer set up under the table beside her. However, Sydney is bringing this to an end. Sydney is constantly playing with the printer, pulling stuff out of her bag, etc. Mom has tried putting appealing toys out, putting pillows/ blankets in front of the printer and over the bag, etc. Nothing has worked. Mom is relocating most of her work stuff.

Click the following to view Sydney up to no-good :-)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-JAhy3pxTU

You know potty training is going really, really badly...

when your kid secretly puts on a diaper. Remember a few months ago when Mom and Dad said Morgan was giving up diapers forever. Well, after about seven days they decided that they would rather pay the $50 a month and change diapers than deal with one more accident. It didn't go well at all. They decided to give it another try yesterday. By 1:00 yesterday afternoon, Morgan had used the potty five times and had three accidents. It went downhill from there. She had about another four or five accidents by the end of the day. She didn't have much interest in it.

This morning Mom woke up determined to keep trying. She really wanted Morgan out of diapers well before she starts preschool in the fall since she has to be potty trained by then. She thought all was going well about 10:00 am when Morgan hadn't had any accidents, but she was confused because Morgan had only gone in the bathroom once. She picked up Morgan and discovered that Morgan had put a diaper on herself. That's probably not a good sign that she wants to cooperate with the potty training process. However, Mom thinks it's impressive that she can change herself... somehow the preschool may not agree. Mom and Dad may keep trying, but it's not looking good at the moment.

The Art of Delegation

Lydia has been earning extra money doing work around the house. She can earn $1 for gathering, washing, drying, folding, and putting away a load of towels. She recently asked Mom if she can have the little kids help her and still get paid. Mom didn't see a problem with it as long as she was still in charge of making sure it all turned out ok. She has somehow convinced Seth and Morgan that they love folding laundry. She has trained Morgan to be an expert washcloth folder and has Seth doing a decent job folding towels and putting them away.

Seth's Big Morning

This morning Seth went to "Kindergarten Round-up." It's the kindergarten screening process at his school for next year. He had his hearing and vision checked. He also went with the kindergarten teacher to be screened for his kindergarten readiness. The teacher knows Seth, and she came out and said, "Seth, it's your turn." He went with her.

When he finished, Mom asked him how it went. He told her the teacher asked him silly questions. He said she said, "Seth, we'll get started." She then sat down and said, "What's your name?" He couldn't figure out why someone would call him Seth then ask his name. He said she then asked him his address when she had it in front of her on the paper. He didn't understand why she kept asking him stuff she already knew.

At the end, he met with the principal. When Mom and Seth were leaving, he said, "Seth, it looks like you and Mom are ready for kindergarten." Seth said bye. He then looked at Mom and loudly asked her why the principal called her "Mom" instead of "Jenny." Then he said, "I think it's because he can't remember your name." Mom thinks he's probably right.

Sydney Pictures

Our Knitter

When we saw Dessa last month, she taught Lydia how to knit. Lydia is hooked!

Coloring the Easter Eggs

What we've been doing...

Mom's winter quarter classes ended a couple weeks ago. She usually teaches about six classes between her two schools at a time, but she'll only be teaching about three or four in the future. She decided it would be good to go to Hobby Lobby and get some decorations to put over the cabinets. It's funny how those projects turn out. At this point, she's gotten stuff to decorate the entire kitchen, living room, some furniture, etc. Much to the kids' dismay, the family has lived at decorating stores and furniture stores. Dad has spent his evenings on top of ladders, carrying furniture, and hanging pictures. The curtains Mom bought on ebay should be arriving soon, and he'll be hanging curtains next week. Mom is convinced that the family is going to start sending out applications for her to get another job if she doesn't stop the decorating soon.