I look forward to the nicer weather so we can spend our evenings in the backyard catching fireflies, looking at the stars and enjoying campfires. I think this summer we will try tenting in the backyard together.
Friday is here...and another stretch of being a stay at home mom is over. I have to leave for work at 11pm and work my 40 hours. I am blessed. I know that it is rare that a single mom is able to have SO much time with her child and be away from them so little. CO has issues with being 'left'. It took him many many months before he would be ok with the fact that I left him for the weekend to go to work (even though he was with my parents). It used to be I'd come home from work Sunday afternoon and he'd be a monster for me until Tuesday. I figured this was his way of punishing me for going to work. Even though I got him at a young age I think the many transitions he had as a baby does have an effect deep down. So having the job I do really helps him to have the stability he craves.
Today we had another speech assessment. Unfortunately when I told him we were going to 'speech' today. He heard 'beach' and was a little disappointed when we showed up. He had even brought his 'water glasses' (goggles) along. He has made some improvement with his speech in the last three months. Sounds he wasn't using at all he is now using 'in' words. He still doesn't use them at the begining of words but that will come. He is going to be attending a speech 'camp' of sorts two days a week after march break. It is three or four weeks long. We'll see how that goes.
CO is such a clown and makes me laugh with the ideas and thoughts he is sharing with me these days. He talks all the time about when he gets big what he is going to do. He is going to drive a snow plow, be a farmer, a superhero that helps people and flies through the clouds. He is going to drive a big truck and own a backhoe, combine, excavator & tractor. That is just some of the ideas he has thrown at me this past week.
He has been ALL about being outside this week. I couldn't interest him in crafting at all (which is something he usually LOVES to do), not even painting. So our activies that I'd planned to go along with 'the Snowy Day'
mostly went out the window this week. He LOVED the book and I've read it a few times a day. He enjoyed doing the science experiments that went along with the book. We brought in snowballs and put them in different places like the freezer and fridge and then predicted what would happen. He loved to make tracks in the snow. Mostly he loved doing what he loves best, and that is digging. There were a couple of days this week that the ground was icy and hard and he then switched from shoveling snow to digging with any gravel he could get loose from the driveway or playing on his 'hockey rink' (which is a small frozen patch of ice on the front lawn).We stopped off at the library on the way home today and picked up some books on growing and gardening. Next week our book is 'the Carrot Seed'
. I'm excited to start planting seeds with him. I found a cool seed grower that will enable him to see in the soil and watch the roots grow as well as the plant above ground. We've read this book in the past (not as a weekly focus) and he really liked it. So I think I'll be reading it MANY times next week. We are off to Ottawa for March Break. We are taking Morgain. I am looking forward to the week. I find her much more relaxed and less needy than she was when she first moved here almost two years ago. Most of all I am looking forward to going to here.
We are going to attemt to drive down (vs taking the train). So that should be an interesting adventure in itself.
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