Ten on Wednesday

1. Lots have been going besides our Easter fun. Tball is in full swing now, in gale force winds and blowing dirt. We are two games in and I am kind of over it. Don't get me wrong Zane is having a blast and doing great. The first season of everyone running around, having no idea what is going on, was really cute. A year later it's slightly exhausting. I wish he could have stayed on one team the whole time, so that everyone could have progressed together. Zane is progressing and doing really well, but I'm pretty sure this is most of the other kids first season. The not getting my kids to bed until 9pm is also rough. Rowan remains adorable while watching his brother and Zane is having fun so I guess all is good. 

 

 

2. For some reason yesterday I was feeling quite domestic and was doing a stellar job as a house wife and stay at home mom. First up we made a construction site/sensory bin with beans where Rowan can use all his little CAT machines, trucks, and cars. He has a ton of little cars, but never quite knows what to do with them. Zane and Rowan both really enjoyed it. It was kind of messy, but the boys also got great practice sweeping at the end of the day. 

 

 This is the type of activity that Zane would never have set still long enough to do, but Rowan sat and played with it for a long time, multiple times yesterday. He even got Zane to sit and play with it!

 

3. Next up was my genius idea of trying to get Zane excited about reading. This is a constant, very real struggle. When Zane wants to he can read all sorts of things, sound out words, and knows all sorts of sight words. When he doesn't want to read he looks at the first letter of a word and says the first word he can think of that starts with that letter. It's very frustrating and I have tried all sorts of things to get him excited. Last week I got him a few more books for his Leap Reader pen, which he is using and enjoying. Yesterday, while Rowan was still sleeping, we went outside and did some sight word hopscotch, which morphed into the side walk being hot lava and the words in squares were rocks. If he couldn't read them the rock broke and he melted. He read all sorts of words, learned new words, he was on a roll and I was feeling quite good about myself. By the time Zach got home he was over it and couldn't read any of the words. So who knows how much stuck.

 

 

4. Lastly, I made some strawberry scones for my sister who had a minor procedure this morning, which went wonderfully, I'm happy to say! I might have kept some of the scones, because they were fabulous. I hope you enjoyed them Abbey and feel better soon! Here is the recipe if anyone is interested.

5. Zane had his last swim lesson this evening. I hear that all went well while I was at work. He has successfully swam almost all the way across the pool, without a floaty. I really wish we could do it again in April, but sadly there are multiple weeks with two tball games next month so we opted to wait until May. I am going to try to take him swimming with me more often so he remembers all his new skills. As I predicted he picked up on everything very quickly and loved it! 

 

 This face though!

6. Spring time is here and we are spending most of our afternoons outside. The boys spend hours riding their bikes, scooter, and a combination of both. Our tree in the front yard gets a lot of climbing as well. No more falls to report and the ladder is safely out of reach yet again. The Easter bunny brought bubbles, which I am always reluctant to buy because they get spilled immediately, but the boys are loving their bubble tubes. 

 

 

7. I finally gave up and went to see a doctor about my right hand/wrist situation. It has gotten worse and now my whole wrist hurts and I don't have any strength in that hand. I saw the doctor on Monday, she said it is probably a combination of arthritis in my pinky joint and tendinitis in that finger/wrist. ARTHRITIS??? I'm thirty two. Anyway I'm on high dose steroids now, so we shall see if that helps. If not we'll do imagining. For now I have mom's intense carpal tunnel wrist brace, it feels fine when it's on but a as soon as I take it off it's miserable again.

8. I finished Kari's wreath, just in time for Easter. I love how it turned out and kind of wish I had found the blue hydrangeas for my own. I have scratched my wreath making itch for now. So I'm thinking of going to back to some scrapbooking for my crafting outlet. 

 

 

9. My year of letting go is coming along nicely and my current thing that I think I have almost "let go" is my desperate desire to own a home. I think I've finally reached a point that I truly, in my soul, don't feel like this is something we HAVE to do. With the tornadoes, hail, gale force winds, and earthquakes I think I'm fine with renting indefinitely. I love our current house and the thought of home buying, moving, or trying to come up with stupid amount of money we seriously don't have isn't anything I want to do any time soon. Letting go!!!

10. Also on the letting go front, April 7th is just around the corner, and is registration day for Kindergarten. Zane really wants to see the school where he will be going. I'm thinking about trying to schedule a tour, if that's a real thing, so he can see it before the week classes start. He is decidedly excited about Kindergarten now and I am feeling great about our decision to wait to send him. This year has gong to fast I cannot believe the school year is almost over.