Sunday, January 20, 2013

Joy’s Week

She is still on the mend.  Wednesday she finally went back to school.  She was sure wiped out afterwards though.  I think she’s been to school a whole 2 1/2 days in January.  Poor thing!

Since she was home, she got to do music therapy with Bella – which she loved.  Her music therapy is on Mondays at school, so she had missed it.  The girls have the same music therapist.  Very fun for them.

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OT brought over this cool snow ball maker – it’s great in our beans!

Shopping with a sleeping Brother and Mama didn’t bring the stroller.  I had to get creative. 

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We went on a hike at a nearby park.  Oh my goodness, Joy can be so stubborn!  She would NOT walk.  At all.  I thought we’ll just keep going and she’ll finally move.  No.  Joy proved she is much more stubborn than I am.  Couple that with the nightmares I have of her wandering off and getting lost, and she won that battle!  I had to carry her the entire way.  Next time I’m bringing her stroller!  She was convinced there was a squirrel in that tree!  She kept talking to it, telling it to come out.  So cute!  Afterwards we all had dipped ice cream cones!

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We made freshly squeezed lemonade, but the reason this picture is so big is look at her face!  She is priceless!IMG_3000

Playing with sisters and friends.

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Joy loves to make Bella laugh

Sunday, January 13, 2013

Joy’s Week

Joy was sick all week.  I thought she was on the mend on Monday and sent her to school.  They called to tell me they didn’t agree.  She stayed home the rest of the week.

Love that she went and got a chuck to change her baby!

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Speech – working on getting that tongue to move up.  Bribing her with strawberries and lollipops.

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At the park on Friday

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Playing around with music

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Playing around with light savers and being a monkey

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Sunday, December 30, 2012

Christmas in Iowa

Singing in the car                                  Playing in the snow                

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Being adorable                                      Christmas Eve

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   Nativity Play                                                                                       Dinner

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Painting our nails                                         Playing with toys                       Eating at IHOPIMG_0129IMG_0136IMG_0142

Christmas morning

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We went to the Arcade and went bowling!

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Merry Christmas!

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Thursday, December 20, 2012

Christmas Party at School

Being the crazy person that I am, I volunteered to do Joy’s class party. Ugh, but fun. So I planned all of this stuff and then had this play dough as a time filler.

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We learned about snow men – what an abstract concept for Houston kids – so we tried to being in as much concrete stuff as possible.  We read a story.  We sang  a song.  Santa came.  We made a craft with puff paint.  It went well.  I was so glad.  I had been stressing!  I haven’t “taught” in a public school setting since 1997!

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The outside of Joy’s room