Where have all the cowboys gone?

[thesynergizer]

I have no idea why I have that song stuck in my head - I haven't heard it in years - but its been floating around all morning. Things are strangely quiet on lj today, no updates this morning from people who usualy write daily, no updates in more than a week from people who usualy write at least weekly ... it's like a ghost town. Somehow, it feels

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[iamsuperkate]

you are staying with your mom? do you have to clean the house or anything?
i always find i run out of time to do what i want to.
we wake up around 7:30, make andy lunch, and our breakfast, then after that we get ready. which takes forever, because i am trying to keep him out of the tub when i am showering, then cleaning up the mess he makes with my makeup and hair stuff drawers! and calming the whining that ensues when he sees my boobs and needs to have milkies NOW. i also dilly dally a lot, so this gets us to at least 10:00. then we sit and nurse or play. around 11:30 we eat lunch. then its naptime! i either nap with him, or do a chore or just plain old fart around. usually i fart around :) after nap, we play more, then around 5 start supper. we eat around 6:15-6:30, whenever andy gets home. then we play upstairs and get ready for bed!

we have living room toys, and bedroom toys, so my morning play is downstairs, and afternoon in his room. so I have different play options. I also squeeze errands into the morning. I also made a chore chart, cause I am six, and I try to do one thing a day.
to sum up: we play all day!

[thesynergizer]

sounds like fun!

my husband got a new job, so we are all staying with my mom until our stupid house sells. who knows how long it will last until we go nuts.

i will probably make a chore chart too, because otherwise i am a tornado and leave things in a huge mess.

i don't have to do chores, really, just not make things worse, but she is letting us stay there rent-free, so i want to try and help out some.

[iamsuperkate]

ooh, my SIL who is a teacher, got some 365 activities book, and she does a project with her 3 yr old every day. She also does weekly lesson type things. Like one week they learned about dinosaurs. I plan to do something similar with Andrew, but he's still just a baby, and not ready for me to teach!! although, he probably is old enough

[thesynergizer]

we did get a sesame street preschool workbook awhile ago that teaches colors (he knows them all) the alphabet (he knows all the caps but struggles with those pesky lowercase ones) and numbers (can count, sort of. gets lost sometimes. often goes 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 14 20. But definitetly doesn't know numerals by sight at all.) anyway, the book wants more hand/eye cordination than he typically has ... like trace this letter and draw a line from the yellow shoe to the yellow sock. Ben can point to them and tell you that they're both yellow, but if you put a crayon in his hand, he'd be off drawing on the couch before you had time to sneeze.

i like the idea of projects though ... maybe we can do chore-projects that will actually benefit the house, like mopping or vacuuming ...