speech – Page 16 – Kumquat & Peanut

homework

May 23, 2016 No Comments

https://youtu.be/27xeaH-tmcQ

Every evening (Sunday through Thursday) before bed, Janie does a lesson in her reading/writing book. She’s been doing this for about two weeks and she’s getting the hang of sounding out letters, putting them together, and also rhyming. Unfortunately, she also has a very good visual memory so she tries to cheat sometimes or gets ahead of herself. We are lucky that she finds this fun and that the lessons are short (~12 minutes each night). Dada usually does the reading lesson and Mama does the writing lesson. With Dada gone, Mama has to work on both parts.

https://youtu.be/eFR9CXGcQ9I
Each lesson also ends with writing 2-3 sounds/letters. Tonight, she practiced s and d. For lots of the letters, the Handwriting Without Tears method works like a charm.

expressions, friends, play, school, speech

school stuff

May 16, 2016 No Comments

This afternoon, Dada had a 5pm meeting so Mama picked Janie up from school. She was in the middle of playing with Sota when she arrived.

She also wanted to bring home her artwork. She goes through a lot of paper in a month!

She also had some new Words of Wisdom posted on the wall. This month, it was titled “Earth Day 2016”. The question was “what do you love about our planet and what can you do to protect her?”

Her answer was “I love giraffes, so I don’t waste water. The giraffes need to drink.”

family, fine motor, gross motor, speech

Wednesday evening

May 10, 2016 No Comments

Peanut was hanging out in the pack-n-play this evening while Mama tidied up the house.

Janie also did her reading and writing homework for the night with Dada.

expressions, gross motor, play, speech, videos

Funny Guy

May 9, 2016 No Comments

https://youtu.be/B6Aj5ZV79ro
This guy got a kick out of himself today. I also caught a glimpse of him cruising a bit. He can go about 2-3 steps before falling on his butt now.

eating, expressions, outings, play, speech

Happy Monday!

May 9, 2016 No Comments

It’s Monday and Peanut was in a particularly good mood today. Mimi reported he was a good boy today.

He was also a good boy this evening while Mama had to do some grocery shopping.

Dada came home with Janie and prepared a huge steak for us all to share. Peanut even got some little pieces.

After dinner, Daddy and Janie did the first of 100 reading lessons in a book that Uncle Jimmy recommended.

Before bed, she gave check-ups to her furry pals and even brushed Go-Go’s teeth.

Happy Monday!

sleeping, speech

bedtime stories

May 5, 2016 No Comments

Janie loves stories at bed time and will also browse her books after Dada has read the two that she’s picked out. This evening, she was “reading” her Cinderella book.

expressions, gross motor, speech

238 days

March 25, 2016 No Comments

Peanut is 34 weeks old today! This morning when I put him down next to Ducky, it was like he knew what he was supposed to do. He put his hand on Ducky and smiled. No lie. He posed for the picture today!

Highlights of this past week:

He had a fever and then some weird rash too. He’s feeling better now but the rash is sticking around a bit longer. Luckily it hasn’t been itchy for him.
Peanut cut his first tooth this week! It’s a front lower and then the other one came quickly after.
New foods: brocolli florets, NY strip steak.
Sounds: bwa, ba, da, wa, ma

Happy 34 weeks, happy boy!

speech, videos

stories

March 15, 2016 No Comments

Part of our bedtime routine is to read stories before going to sleep. One of Janie’s favorite books right now is “Are You My Mother?” I love watching her recite her favorite books. She’s also learning the sounds of all the letter of the alphabet in school so when we read to her, she always wants to know where we are reading. She makes me point to the words on the page with my finger while I read to her. Otherwise she’ll interrupt and ask “where are you?”

Here she is “reading” her book.

https://youtu.be/-IfBYCkv9DE

expressions, outings, play, speech, videos