Another Rowan entry

is this normal 5yo behaviour?

Last night, my son chased my car down the street as I left for one-on-one time with my 7yo daughter. He got past Gord's defenses. Once Gord caught him, he screamed and tantrumed for almost an hour. I was told Gord had to sit against the front door to keep R inside.

Last week, we had a meltdown because I added the KD powder and didn't wait for him to do it.

There was another meltdown for another seemingly innocuous reason, which I cannot remember.

The Sunday before that R had another 20min meltdown at camp because he fell asleep in the van and we woke him up.

This Tuesday we canceled our plans due to R's 2 hours of on again off again meltdowns. Then C was extremely disappointed, and cried for 45 mins. All before 10am.

Definition of Rowan's meltdowns: Screaming, throwing things, kicking, hitting, crying, yelling,

Phonics

Learned something new today
http://www.atozphonics.com/schwaphonics.html

schwa sound is /uh/

Thanks Dora phonics readers for making me feel dumb.

Eliana's diapers are history!

Eliana decided yesterday morning to take off her pull up and use the toilet. No prompting from us. Just her own mind being made up. This is exactly what I expected from her. I knew, knowing her personality, that this was how it would happen. She is a headstrong child. She makes up her own mind, and no amount of persuasion will change it. Take dressing herself: She wore jeans for 3 months. Nothing but jeans. Even to bed for a few nights. She now runs to the bathroom after asking one of us to join her. She's excited. She's very proud of her new skill.

I knew she would do it in her own time. She's 2years 10 1/2 months.

Go Ellie!

Rowan....this is a rant

My hearing is going. My 5yo son is sitting on the table next to me screaming "Mommy! PUT MY SHORTS IN THE DRYER" and has been for almost 3 minutes. This is following the past 15 minutes of constant screaming that my neighbours have had to listen to. What started this? Here it is:

I'm gardening, pulling weeds. Rowan gets his water gun and starts shooting me.
Me: If you continue, I'm putting you in the pool (kiddie size, just above his knees)
R keeps spraying me. So I put him almost in the pool, put him down and say "Do it again and you'll be IN the pool"
R sprays me again. I put him in the pool, on his feet, water makes his shorts just a bit (2" or so) wet and take him back out again. Now started the 15+ minutes tirade of "Dry my shorts! Put them in the dryer" while he's naked in the backyard. Gord put the shorts on the clothes line.

Wow. He finally stopped. Must go get dry shorts for him. 20+ minutes of insane screaming.
He ended with "I want dry shorts please help me stop crying"

overwhelmed, overscheduled

Ugh! Summer is here and we're busier than ever. I HATE IT! Swimming lessons from 9:30-11 every morning this week and next. Then, since we were away for an extended week at camp, we seem to be playing playdate catch up. Yes, I could just say 'no we're busy' but the kids miss their friends, so we go. Then I look at the house and think 'geez... when did it get so messy?' more like 'Geezzz. when the hell am I suppose to clean this up?' I went to relax in the basement, found the pile of 'homework' the home organizer left 4 weeks ago. Ooops. Lets face it: It's not getting done. That was $200 wasted. Good intention, but without having her in for a full program (2-3 sessions) one session is a waste of money. sure, the classroom and other parts of the basement are better than before, but the remaining mess looks 10x worse in comparison.

My dh is watching some teen-angst movie - the type I can't sit through without thinking 'this is terrible' So here I sit, wasting my only non-kid time ranting about my messy house instead of getting off my lazy ass and doing something about it.

I'm going to do that now. Hopefully my Zen is fully charged.

Math Website

http://www.hoodamath.com/
Math games for ages 9+