So, sometimes with Chunk I feel like a new mom all over again. I suppose I can say that with all of my Goobers when they do something new.
You would think though after being a mom for 10 years, I would have gotten the memo about sleep routines sooner.
Yeaaaaaah.
Just got it last week.
Well, let me correct that. I got it way back when. But when you work in a restaurant or in retail, you don't exactly have 'routine' hours. So it was hard.
Being home almost all of the time now though let me finally give it a shot, so we did last week.
We started with Chunk since he is the littlest. Backtracking a bit here, we took him out of the crib and into a pack n play because the big kids decided they were going to climb into the crib and play with him and bent one of the metal things that allows you to set the height of the mattress. Then when he was super sick we moved him into bed with us because we were using a nebulizer on a very strict schedule, including through the night , and it was just easier to do it when he was sleeping then wake him up for it. We tried to go back to the crib when he got better and we got the replacement piece, but he would scream. I've let my kids cry it out at bedtime before but this kid will scream for hours. Seriously. So we were stuck with him in bed.
Then he started daycare in September. And after a few days, he would go down for naps in the pack n play there. So I had the brilliant idea last week to pull out the pack n play at naptime and give it a shot. He whined for a few minutes but took his nap. Same at bedtime. Yay! Now he goes down for his nap no problems...and as long as we keep the big kids downstairs, bedtime is a breeze for him too.
Even The Chef yesterday was surprised that when they put Cute Boy on the bus that Chunk came home and laid down on the couch and took a nap. I was at a meeting and told him the routine, but you know how men and listening skills can be sometimes.
So since I was excited about the success with Chunk, I moved on to the big kids. Sweet Nut wasn't much of a problem, as long as no one bugs him, he's always been the best sleeper of the 3...but he can't have anyone awake near him or he turns into a clown. Cute Boy surprisingly has gotten better. It still takes him awhile to go to sleep, but he does. Spawn still takes for.ever.
The biggest thing with them is that since they all share a room, we have to wait until one is asleep before sending spin the next. So bedtime takes awhile. The plan is one day to at least have 3 bedrooms, one for us, and then split the boys between 2 rooms so we can send the little ones at the same time and once they are asleep, send the big ones. Unfortunately, that is probably going to take us moving out of the area, or hitting lotto. Rent is just crazy expensive here. One day though, it gives us something to work towards.
Wednesday, January 23, 2013
Saturday, January 19, 2013
They work hard for their money...
So hard for their money.
Ok. I'll stop singing now.
Anyways, we're 3 weeks into our new allowance/chore system and its going surprisingly well!
I mentioned in my last post that we've been trying to figure out the whole chore mystery for years.
Thanks to Pinterest, I found a lot of different systems that people we using. But none of them really worked for us. Then I had the brilliant idea to combine a little of this with a little of that and lo and behold, we got a keeper.
The boys like it because they aren't stuck doing the same old thing all the time and I like it because I'm not nagging...as much.
So let me walk you through a Sunday afternoon at our house.
After lunch we pull these out:
That's our chore box and our family bank binder.
They take turns pulling chores. Each of them gets 5. And the chores a mix of things that have to be done every day and once or twice a week.
We jot down who has what...and every once in awhile there's a trade worked out between brothers. Then we pull their log charts. These are up on the fridge and they get marked each day when something is done. We add up what they earned- daily chores are worth 25 cents. Weekly chores are worth 50 cents. We add them up and they write down what they earned in their bank register as chore payout.
Then they either work with Mom using the calculator to figure out what 20% is, or Spawn gets a piece of paper and does the multiplication by hand. This money goes into their savings. They can't touch their savings. (Eventually when they get enough saved they'll go with MaMa (my mom) to open a savings account.). The rest is theirs to save or spend. Right now we have them convinced to save for our Disney trip.
Starting tomorrow, we're getting rid of the check sheets and making it electronic. I found today (thanks Pinterest!) a website called MyJobChart.com. We played with it today and it is pretty awesome!
You set up your account and then add your kids and assign them jobs. They earn points rather than money (each point is equal to 1 cent) and you can set what the jobs are worth. You can set rewards they can earn, there are general ones and they also link to Amazon, so you can put a specific toy or something (right now theirs are filled with skylanders.)
After the kids earn their points they go to their store where they can organize their points to savings, organizations to give to and rewards. Once they feel they have enough points in one of those sections, they can 'spend' it, which emails you to let you know what they want, so you can either put it in the bank, donate, or buy it.
So far the boys like it, I figured they would, because its electronic. We have it linked on the iPad so they can just click and open it. Once they do that they click their picture and enter their password to get into their account.
So thats's how we have chores worked out.
Allowance is a whole different animal. We started this month giving them a dollar for their age, so for example, Spawn got $10. Again, they have to save 20% of that. We're actually going to start tweaking this too this coming month. A friend of mine does this with her boys and we're going to give it a shot as well. The goal is to correct behavior and have them behave, but also to make you look for the good and compliment the positive. There's a mason jar for each kid and a jar of marbles/stones. Each time they get caught doing something good, you compliment them and add a stone to their jar. At the end of the month a full jar is worth $10. They can't lose stones, because remember, you are trying to be positive. She says since they started it she's noticed a change, so I'm anxious to see if it works on Goobers as well.
So far so good.
Just a note. Although I talked a lot about MyJobChart.com, they don't know who I am or that I wrote this. I just found it and thought it was neat and wanted to share. Best part is that it's free...well, the site is free...the kids will eventually expect money :)
Ok. I'll stop singing now.
Anyways, we're 3 weeks into our new allowance/chore system and its going surprisingly well!
I mentioned in my last post that we've been trying to figure out the whole chore mystery for years.
Thanks to Pinterest, I found a lot of different systems that people we using. But none of them really worked for us. Then I had the brilliant idea to combine a little of this with a little of that and lo and behold, we got a keeper.
The boys like it because they aren't stuck doing the same old thing all the time and I like it because I'm not nagging...as much.
So let me walk you through a Sunday afternoon at our house.
After lunch we pull these out:
That's our chore box and our family bank binder.
They take turns pulling chores. Each of them gets 5. And the chores a mix of things that have to be done every day and once or twice a week.
We jot down who has what...and every once in awhile there's a trade worked out between brothers. Then we pull their log charts. These are up on the fridge and they get marked each day when something is done. We add up what they earned- daily chores are worth 25 cents. Weekly chores are worth 50 cents. We add them up and they write down what they earned in their bank register as chore payout.
Then they either work with Mom using the calculator to figure out what 20% is, or Spawn gets a piece of paper and does the multiplication by hand. This money goes into their savings. They can't touch their savings. (Eventually when they get enough saved they'll go with MaMa (my mom) to open a savings account.). The rest is theirs to save or spend. Right now we have them convinced to save for our Disney trip.
Starting tomorrow, we're getting rid of the check sheets and making it electronic. I found today (thanks Pinterest!) a website called MyJobChart.com. We played with it today and it is pretty awesome!
You set up your account and then add your kids and assign them jobs. They earn points rather than money (each point is equal to 1 cent) and you can set what the jobs are worth. You can set rewards they can earn, there are general ones and they also link to Amazon, so you can put a specific toy or something (right now theirs are filled with skylanders.)
After the kids earn their points they go to their store where they can organize their points to savings, organizations to give to and rewards. Once they feel they have enough points in one of those sections, they can 'spend' it, which emails you to let you know what they want, so you can either put it in the bank, donate, or buy it.
So far the boys like it, I figured they would, because its electronic. We have it linked on the iPad so they can just click and open it. Once they do that they click their picture and enter their password to get into their account.
So thats's how we have chores worked out.
Allowance is a whole different animal. We started this month giving them a dollar for their age, so for example, Spawn got $10. Again, they have to save 20% of that. We're actually going to start tweaking this too this coming month. A friend of mine does this with her boys and we're going to give it a shot as well. The goal is to correct behavior and have them behave, but also to make you look for the good and compliment the positive. There's a mason jar for each kid and a jar of marbles/stones. Each time they get caught doing something good, you compliment them and add a stone to their jar. At the end of the month a full jar is worth $10. They can't lose stones, because remember, you are trying to be positive. She says since they started it she's noticed a change, so I'm anxious to see if it works on Goobers as well.
So far so good.
Just a note. Although I talked a lot about MyJobChart.com, they don't know who I am or that I wrote this. I just found it and thought it was neat and wanted to share. Best part is that it's free...well, the site is free...the kids will eventually expect money :)
Wednesday, January 16, 2013
Cha-cha-cha-changes.
So here we are, the beginning of another New Year...and we're making lots of changes!
First, if you read the last post you know we're working on building our savings. It's been a rough few weeks but the budget is in place and we're starting to use it.
Second is food wise. I desperately need to lose weight as I've watched it get closer and closer to a super scary number. One day I'll share but not yet. Spawn, Sweet Nut and The Chef can stand to shed some pounds as well. I decided to dive in head first with meal planning. This is our first full week and so far so good. I made the menu on Saturday and went shopping Sunday. The plan is to make at least a weeks worth of menus (ideally I'd like to do the whole month, but I have to work up to that) and to shopping once a week. There are times where I'm in the grocery store once a day or more, and we start buying junk food we don't need just because its there. By forcing myself to only go once a week, I'm hoping it helps keep the junk food out. We're also trying some new recipes and we're going to be adding some sort of salad or raw veggie platter to the menu every day starting next week.
Our other big change is our new chore payout/allowance system. I've been looking for a new system for awhile and I've taken some components of what I've read and made up one that so far works for us. Each Sunday the big 3 draw 5 chores out of a box. Those are their chores for the week. We list them on the fridge next to their check sheets. Each Sunday before we draw new chores we have chore payout. Then on the first Sunday of the month, we give them their allowance...$1 for each year they have been alive. We're on our second week and its going pretty well.
And one of the big reasons for our new system is that we are planning to head down to the House of Mouse at the end of April. Yep, we're heading down for a week at Disney. So we've told the boys that they can certainly spend the money now, we strongly recommend to save it for Disney, because we are not giving them money. And it's been working.
So that's what's been going on around here. Oh and Spawn hit the big ole 10!!! Chunk was getting over the flu so we just needed the wheelchair.
Hope the New Year is treating you well so far...what resolutions or changes are happening with you?
First, if you read the last post you know we're working on building our savings. It's been a rough few weeks but the budget is in place and we're starting to use it.
Second is food wise. I desperately need to lose weight as I've watched it get closer and closer to a super scary number. One day I'll share but not yet. Spawn, Sweet Nut and The Chef can stand to shed some pounds as well. I decided to dive in head first with meal planning. This is our first full week and so far so good. I made the menu on Saturday and went shopping Sunday. The plan is to make at least a weeks worth of menus (ideally I'd like to do the whole month, but I have to work up to that) and to shopping once a week. There are times where I'm in the grocery store once a day or more, and we start buying junk food we don't need just because its there. By forcing myself to only go once a week, I'm hoping it helps keep the junk food out. We're also trying some new recipes and we're going to be adding some sort of salad or raw veggie platter to the menu every day starting next week.
Our other big change is our new chore payout/allowance system. I've been looking for a new system for awhile and I've taken some components of what I've read and made up one that so far works for us. Each Sunday the big 3 draw 5 chores out of a box. Those are their chores for the week. We list them on the fridge next to their check sheets. Each Sunday before we draw new chores we have chore payout. Then on the first Sunday of the month, we give them their allowance...$1 for each year they have been alive. We're on our second week and its going pretty well.
And one of the big reasons for our new system is that we are planning to head down to the House of Mouse at the end of April. Yep, we're heading down for a week at Disney. So we've told the boys that they can certainly spend the money now, we strongly recommend to save it for Disney, because we are not giving them money. And it's been working.
So that's what's been going on around here. Oh and Spawn hit the big ole 10!!! Chunk was getting over the flu so we just needed the wheelchair.
Hope the New Year is treating you well so far...what resolutions or changes are happening with you?
Wednesday, December 19, 2012
Random ramblings
I've been thinking a lot. Which could be dangerous, LOL.
The Chef and I are working on making an setting a budget for the New Year. We're in the process of reading and learning Dave Ramsey's method. We know quite a few people that have had success with that. And we're to the point where we should be getting rid of most of our debt in the next few months, so we figured it would be a good time to start.
In looking at and crunching the numbers the looming question has been if I should go back to work full time. I haven't technically been full time since Chunk was born, even though for almost a year I was working 2 part time jobs.
So we plate with and crunched the numbers. If I go back full time, right now, the 2 biggest goobers would have to go to before school care 3 days a week, and after school care once a week. Plus Cute Boy would need daycare in the mornings 3 days a week (he's in afternoon kindergarten) and after school one day a week...and Chunk would be full time in daycare. We priced it out using our options of in school before and after school for the big boys and our sitter and our daycare, and no matter how we crunch it, I'll need a very very well paying full time job.
If I stay home, it saves us the money for child care. Yes, Chunk goes 3 days a week to daycare, but he LOVES it there and he's doing great. Plus it allows me to be able to go into school and help a lot which the Goobers love. (And for the most part works out to be when the baby is at daycare!). I actually like being home (surprisingly!) and like that we have family dinners 4x a week, and that even the other 3 nights the boys and I have time together (chef works until 8pm 3 nights a week)
When we worked out the numbers, no matter what way we did it, for the most part we just get by. If I'm working, most of that money goes to childcare.
So where does that leave me? I'm going to invest more time in developing my Thirty One business. I love the company and the products, and they spoil their consultants! And it allows me to make my own schedule. I'm also doing some part time stuff behind the scenes at the repair shop. Which is good because I love the shop, and miss it sometimes!
And the upside to all of this, which I realized today as I sit here with a Chunk who didn't go to daycare because he pulled an all nighter last night? I get to be here for my kids. I loved working full time, but for me, at this point right now, even though they drive me insane, I'm right where I want to be.
The Chef and I are working on making an setting a budget for the New Year. We're in the process of reading and learning Dave Ramsey's method. We know quite a few people that have had success with that. And we're to the point where we should be getting rid of most of our debt in the next few months, so we figured it would be a good time to start.
In looking at and crunching the numbers the looming question has been if I should go back to work full time. I haven't technically been full time since Chunk was born, even though for almost a year I was working 2 part time jobs.
So we plate with and crunched the numbers. If I go back full time, right now, the 2 biggest goobers would have to go to before school care 3 days a week, and after school care once a week. Plus Cute Boy would need daycare in the mornings 3 days a week (he's in afternoon kindergarten) and after school one day a week...and Chunk would be full time in daycare. We priced it out using our options of in school before and after school for the big boys and our sitter and our daycare, and no matter how we crunch it, I'll need a very very well paying full time job.
If I stay home, it saves us the money for child care. Yes, Chunk goes 3 days a week to daycare, but he LOVES it there and he's doing great. Plus it allows me to be able to go into school and help a lot which the Goobers love. (And for the most part works out to be when the baby is at daycare!). I actually like being home (surprisingly!) and like that we have family dinners 4x a week, and that even the other 3 nights the boys and I have time together (chef works until 8pm 3 nights a week)
When we worked out the numbers, no matter what way we did it, for the most part we just get by. If I'm working, most of that money goes to childcare.
So where does that leave me? I'm going to invest more time in developing my Thirty One business. I love the company and the products, and they spoil their consultants! And it allows me to make my own schedule. I'm also doing some part time stuff behind the scenes at the repair shop. Which is good because I love the shop, and miss it sometimes!
And the upside to all of this, which I realized today as I sit here with a Chunk who didn't go to daycare because he pulled an all nighter last night? I get to be here for my kids. I loved working full time, but for me, at this point right now, even though they drive me insane, I'm right where I want to be.
Tuesday, October 2, 2012
The sleep battle...
I dread bedtime in our house. Sleep has always been a rough spot in our house. Spawn has never been a great sleeper; Sweet Nut is a great sleeper if people leave him alone and let him fall asleep; and Cute Boy and Chunk take f.o.r.e.v.e.r. to go to sleep. Throw the 3 goobers all sharing a room into the mix and it's a recipe for disaster.
One of the things Spawn's doctors were looking at trying to figure out why his asthma medicine wasn't helping much was how he slept. How long it took him to fall asleep and how many times he woke up at night. Thankfully with the removal of his adenoid we got the night wakings down to almost none. But there was still the hours long battle to actually fall asleep.
I'm not a great sleeper either, so that might be part of it. I have battles with insomnia and a few years back I was told about using relaxation and meditation to go to sleep. Using you tube videos, I found what ones worked best and most nights that's how I'll fall asleep-headphones in my ears and the iPhone or iPod next to me.
I thought about it back when I started using them for myself to let the kids use them, but don't know why I never did.
Then someone brought up the idea to me the other day. I looked for videos that were geared more towards kids and found some that I thought were worth giving a shot.
We tried them tonight and, seriously, Spawn was almost asleep at the end of the first one. All 3 big boys were out by the end of the second one and it was only 9:20. Unheard of in my house, in 9.5 years that all the boys, and most importantly, Spawn were sleeping that early.
We've tried the early bedtimes, split bedtimes etc. Nothing worked. So I'm hoping that we've finally found what works. Spawn tends to instigate and wake up the other 2 if he "feels lonely".
The first video we used was this one:
It's a Progressive Muscle Relaxation for kids. I love this type of relaxation and use it often...when I'm tired, when I'm stressed...whenever I need a few minutes to myself. The best part about this one is once you have an idea of how it works you can do it anytime, anywhere. Basically what it does is have you works groups of muscles, tightening them and then relaxing them multiple times, which strangely enough really relaxes them. Most of the ones I've used start with the hands or feet and work their way around the body. This particular one is geared specifically for kids and starts with the hands. It has them pretend to squeeze the juice out of lemons. Then it works the face by having them scrunch their nose and foreheads to make a fly go away. Clench the jaw by pretending they are biting on a jawbreaker. Pull their neck into their shoulders pretending they are turtles pulling their heads into their shells. Pretend they are lazy cats stretching in the sun etc. It's an almost 14 minute video, and by then end of this one, the boys were still awake, but you could tell they were calmed down. They took a bathroom break and when Spawn climbed back into bed he has some very heavy eyelids.
Then we moved onto this one:
This guy is a hypnotherapist, and this is a guided sleep relaxation video. Guided relaxations are just that. Where the person basically takes you to a place, in this case to the castle because the kids are princes or princesses. The beginning they have their eyes open and watch, and they loved seeing this little guy from a video game. After a few minutes he has them close their eyes to begin the journey. This video, unlike the previous has no direction to open their eyes at the end, because hopefully, as a sleep video, they are asleep by the end of it. This is just over 8 minutes and by the end of this, Sweet Nut was snoring, Spawn was out like a light and Cute Boy had just fallen asleep.
This was only our first night of using these with the kids and I have to say, I'm happy with the results. I'm looking through other sleep relaxation videos to change up and see what ones work best. For me, longer ones work and I can't use the same one over and over because I start 'reading' the script in my head. I tend to stick with certain types or certain voices though once I find one that works.
Oh, and you might wonder how we did this. I just brought my iPhone into their room, turned off anything that made noise (fan included) and had them lay on their backs in their beds. The first video talks about them sitting in a chair (it's made to use in school) but they had no problems following along laying down.
Hopefully, I'll be able to update in a few days that we've had continued success and I'll post other videos that work for us as we find them. It's easy to find though, just do searches on you tube.
I'll have another blog post geared towards adults with some videos soon!
Sweet Dreams!
One of the things Spawn's doctors were looking at trying to figure out why his asthma medicine wasn't helping much was how he slept. How long it took him to fall asleep and how many times he woke up at night. Thankfully with the removal of his adenoid we got the night wakings down to almost none. But there was still the hours long battle to actually fall asleep.
I'm not a great sleeper either, so that might be part of it. I have battles with insomnia and a few years back I was told about using relaxation and meditation to go to sleep. Using you tube videos, I found what ones worked best and most nights that's how I'll fall asleep-headphones in my ears and the iPhone or iPod next to me.
I thought about it back when I started using them for myself to let the kids use them, but don't know why I never did.
Then someone brought up the idea to me the other day. I looked for videos that were geared more towards kids and found some that I thought were worth giving a shot.
We tried them tonight and, seriously, Spawn was almost asleep at the end of the first one. All 3 big boys were out by the end of the second one and it was only 9:20. Unheard of in my house, in 9.5 years that all the boys, and most importantly, Spawn were sleeping that early.
We've tried the early bedtimes, split bedtimes etc. Nothing worked. So I'm hoping that we've finally found what works. Spawn tends to instigate and wake up the other 2 if he "feels lonely".
The first video we used was this one:
It's a Progressive Muscle Relaxation for kids. I love this type of relaxation and use it often...when I'm tired, when I'm stressed...whenever I need a few minutes to myself. The best part about this one is once you have an idea of how it works you can do it anytime, anywhere. Basically what it does is have you works groups of muscles, tightening them and then relaxing them multiple times, which strangely enough really relaxes them. Most of the ones I've used start with the hands or feet and work their way around the body. This particular one is geared specifically for kids and starts with the hands. It has them pretend to squeeze the juice out of lemons. Then it works the face by having them scrunch their nose and foreheads to make a fly go away. Clench the jaw by pretending they are biting on a jawbreaker. Pull their neck into their shoulders pretending they are turtles pulling their heads into their shells. Pretend they are lazy cats stretching in the sun etc. It's an almost 14 minute video, and by then end of this one, the boys were still awake, but you could tell they were calmed down. They took a bathroom break and when Spawn climbed back into bed he has some very heavy eyelids.
Then we moved onto this one:
This guy is a hypnotherapist, and this is a guided sleep relaxation video. Guided relaxations are just that. Where the person basically takes you to a place, in this case to the castle because the kids are princes or princesses. The beginning they have their eyes open and watch, and they loved seeing this little guy from a video game. After a few minutes he has them close their eyes to begin the journey. This video, unlike the previous has no direction to open their eyes at the end, because hopefully, as a sleep video, they are asleep by the end of it. This is just over 8 minutes and by the end of this, Sweet Nut was snoring, Spawn was out like a light and Cute Boy had just fallen asleep.
This was only our first night of using these with the kids and I have to say, I'm happy with the results. I'm looking through other sleep relaxation videos to change up and see what ones work best. For me, longer ones work and I can't use the same one over and over because I start 'reading' the script in my head. I tend to stick with certain types or certain voices though once I find one that works.
Oh, and you might wonder how we did this. I just brought my iPhone into their room, turned off anything that made noise (fan included) and had them lay on their backs in their beds. The first video talks about them sitting in a chair (it's made to use in school) but they had no problems following along laying down.
Hopefully, I'll be able to update in a few days that we've had continued success and I'll post other videos that work for us as we find them. It's easy to find though, just do searches on you tube.
I'll have another blog post geared towards adults with some videos soon!
Sweet Dreams!
Changing things up...
So while I was leaning before towards a homeschooling blog, obviously plans have changed.
I've decided to head in a more general mom blog direction with special areas for ADHD (and what works with our kids) and Class Moms (because there are great ideas everywhere, but not many places where you can get all the stuff in one spot.) I may eventually branch these off into their own blogs, but for now, everything will be here.
We still do some Tot School with Chunk, so those posts will be sprinkled throughout, and who knows, maybe one day we will be official homeschoolers.
I've decided to head in a more general mom blog direction with special areas for ADHD (and what works with our kids) and Class Moms (because there are great ideas everywhere, but not many places where you can get all the stuff in one spot.) I may eventually branch these off into their own blogs, but for now, everything will be here.
We still do some Tot School with Chunk, so those posts will be sprinkled throughout, and who knows, maybe one day we will be official homeschoolers.
Monday, October 1, 2012
Updates on the goings on here...
Soooooooo...it's been awhile. And you know how it can be here...totally insane.
Anyways, update on us. Spawn had his adenoid taken out just under 2 months ago. He's doing better, no more snoring, no more night wakings, so we're hopeful that we get a good report when we head back to the immunologist. Chunk has done better since we changed his meds, but we still have some random fevers and he's had a rattle in his chest that we need to follow up on.
School wise, ugh. The Ex completely flipped a week before school started and refused to help or support Spawn and homeschooling. Spawn and I talked it over and we decided to head back to school, for now. We were able to meet his teacher the day before school started and had some time to chat, and she seems to be a great fit for him so far. He still wants to homeschool and mentions it every once in awhile, but is doing ok.
Sweet Nut LOVES his teacher. It's the first time he's had a man teacher, and so far he's doing great. He somehow convinced me to become class mom, so you'll be seeing more from me with things I'm doing. I'm also one of 4 class moms for Spawn's class. Oh boy.
Cute Boy LOVES kindergarten. He has the same teacher the older boys had for K and he's doing ok! We need to work on letters but nothing to worry about yet she said.
Chunk also started school! He took Cute Boy's spots at daycare 3 days a week, and while he's not so sure he wants to be dropped off, he loves it there.
Chunk had been staying up to 12ish each night, and I have no idea why. It's killing my sleep though, I had problems with insomnia before, now it's just like really? Sucks,
Anyways, there's the quick update. More to come later.
Anyways, update on us. Spawn had his adenoid taken out just under 2 months ago. He's doing better, no more snoring, no more night wakings, so we're hopeful that we get a good report when we head back to the immunologist. Chunk has done better since we changed his meds, but we still have some random fevers and he's had a rattle in his chest that we need to follow up on.
School wise, ugh. The Ex completely flipped a week before school started and refused to help or support Spawn and homeschooling. Spawn and I talked it over and we decided to head back to school, for now. We were able to meet his teacher the day before school started and had some time to chat, and she seems to be a great fit for him so far. He still wants to homeschool and mentions it every once in awhile, but is doing ok.
Sweet Nut LOVES his teacher. It's the first time he's had a man teacher, and so far he's doing great. He somehow convinced me to become class mom, so you'll be seeing more from me with things I'm doing. I'm also one of 4 class moms for Spawn's class. Oh boy.
Cute Boy LOVES kindergarten. He has the same teacher the older boys had for K and he's doing ok! We need to work on letters but nothing to worry about yet she said.
Chunk also started school! He took Cute Boy's spots at daycare 3 days a week, and while he's not so sure he wants to be dropped off, he loves it there.
Chunk had been staying up to 12ish each night, and I have no idea why. It's killing my sleep though, I had problems with insomnia before, now it's just like really? Sucks,
Anyways, there's the quick update. More to come later.
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