Tuesday, February 24, 2009

Signing spot

http://signingspot.webs.com/

Someone posted this on my homeschool group. I liked the videos section.

Sunday, February 22, 2009

A nice lady at church fed Ana a cookie, Ahhh

We were sitting at stake conference and there was a nice couple next to us playing with Ana. I turned away for just a second and when I looked back Ana was eating something. I pulled it out of her mouth and it was a piece of cookie crisp cereal.
ARGH! The lady looked so shocked that I was trying to get it out of her mouth so I told her I'm sorry, she's allergic to wheat. She felt so bad. Then I felt sorry for her.
I'm frustrated though because there are so many places that she gets wheat. People don't think before they feed a kid. I need to create an outfit that says, "do not feed me!" to wear when we go anywhere.
Yeah, that would blend in well wouldn't it?
Now we get to look forward to the crying, cramping, and bloody poop. Gotta loce Celiac's disease.

Monday, February 9, 2009

Potatoes in a pot



Wow, what a fun homeschool project. No excuse for no garden space anymore.

The clip is a little cheesy at the beginning but has great information later on as she learns.

Thursday, February 5, 2009

Opera, Liberty Academy

This is for my Liberty Academy pals...I'm posting the links to the opera here for practice so they'll be available. If you lose the link just come to my blog and search (in the top left corner) opera and you'll find the post.

The video is the dwarve's song. Please have them practice it. The link is to the complete opera minus the dwarves song. The more they can listen and sing along, the better this will be.

Click this link to download it

http://kogenterprises.com/la/opera/

Click this link to play it from the internet

http://kogenterprises.com/la/opera/Liberty%20Academy%20Opera%202009.mp3


Wednesday, February 4, 2009

All about Ana

I thought I haven't written down what Ana has been doing so I'll do that now...

She signs very well, and knows most words that goes with her signs now. I don't know if everyone would know what she's saying but we can tell the difference.

When she wants anything she says please please please please please

She's walking although wobbly and she falls down a lot. She does have crossed toes and that may have to do with her balance issues.

She wants to eat everything we're eating which is one reason we're trying to transition to gluten free so I can fix one meal that we can all eat. She loves bananas if they're very ripe. She's learned when she says cracker that it either means the yummy animal crackers or the yucky gluten free crackers we got at first. She won't eat the first ones now and I don't blame her.

We're stressing about nursery cause there's always food on the floor. I don't know what we'll do unless I go in first and vacuum and then take her out before they feed snacks.

Ana loves babies and tries to poke their eyes out lovingly while she says "eyes". She practices at home with her plastic babies. She also likes to feed them and give them blankies (i.e. smother them)

She loves balls and balloons of all sorts. Andy even has a big exercise ball that she pushes around the floor.

She loves shoes and socks and tries to sing the sock song from signing time while putting them on her feet "sock sock sock sock sock sock."

Thursday, January 29, 2009

Sunday, January 25, 2009

How we spend our Sundays...or run, run, run








I was naughty and snuck my camera to church today. I needed to document for myself that we are actually at church, people just don't see us cause we're busy chasing after Ana.

For those who feel inadequate

This morning I got up early and turned on the TV. I listened to a talk that helped me so much, I just wanted to share.
President Faust was calling someone to the Relief Society Presidency and she felt completely inadequate. He said, "Sister, we are all just normal people and who the Lord calls, he qualifies." I was so glad and grateful to hear him say that we are all normal people. I felt an overwhelming relief to hear that when the Lord calls someone, he qualifies them.
I've been feeling like such a failure as a mother lately. However, I feel like he has called me to this job on earth. I feel like he has called me to participate in adoption, homeschooling, and all the other things we've been doing. Therefore, he would qualify me to complete these callings.
I need to pray more for him to help me. He will help in all things.

Saturday, January 24, 2009

Alyssa WON!!!





Wow! Alyssa was quite the sneaky girl. She called me on the way home and I asked how she did at the Constitution bowl, she said, "oh, we did ok." So, she gets in the car at our meeting place and I see a medal, a banner, and a certificate...
She says, "oh yeah, WE WON!"
Wow! I'm so happy for her. She's been studying for this forever. It's a multi-state contest that is all about the Constitution.
They compete team against team, each team has 4 people.
Their team won every round. They were the ONLY team to win every round.
WOO HOO! GO ALYSSA!

She won a gold medal with ribbon, a banner, and a certificate worth $165 that is good towards any future AYLI event like the Constitutional Convention Simulation.

Wednesday, January 21, 2009

I just liked this

Here's my public service message for the day.

Saturday, January 17, 2009

funny


I don't normally go for this kind of stuff but this one was too funny...It says... You can enjoy the fresh air after finishing a civilized urinating...and the picture just completes it so well.