Owen has been waking me up early all week and I'm apparently sick (or ate something bad?) and I feel like crap so what the heck. Might as well stay up late since I'll be feeling yucky tomorrow too right?
So this past weekend I bought Owen a flannel shirt (which he looks ABSOLUTELY adorable in by the way!) to keep warm in the house. I keep the thermostat at 66 to try and save money (and you would not believe the bill we just got - there's got to be a mistake). Anyway, I give him the shirt and he puts it on and then . . . he buttons it himself.
Ok, I have no idea when kids learn to button so that's not my point here (for all I know he might be "behind" in learning to button - snort!). My point is, he doesn't have any button down shirts, doesn't have any button down jackets, doesn't have any cute little "learn to button" activities or books and has never buttoned or even attempted to button anything before. How did he learn to button his shirt?
This is just a theme that keeps coming up here. My kids just seem to learn things when they are ready. Just like that. It seems pretty common among the kids I know so it's not just my two. They learn to read in a short period of time because they are just ready. They learn to ride bikes in a day just because they are ready. They learn to button their shirts, just like that, because they are ready.
He also learned to do a somersault today (I think it's actually a forward roll?). Just like that. I don't know why he tried it today but he came in the room and announced to me and his sister that he could do one and then showed us.
I'm rambling but still, I found it to be cool. My little shirt buttoning, forward rolling boy :-)
Bridget found a new game on PBSkids.org. It's that math show. Man, drawing a blank here. The one with the cartoon kids and math. Anyway, it's a fun game and she's really enjoying it. She keeps asking me for help with the word jumbles and has asked for help with some of the math questions a few times. I helped her out with one problem and her face lit up as she "got it".
We went to the library tonight and Bridget was thrilled to find it was story night. She was the oldest kid there by at least 4 years, I kid you not. Owen isn't interested in story time so he sat with me and had me read him books instead (our own private little story time). I hope the librarian doesn't mind having such an "old" kid sitting in with the toddlers. Bridget loves it and doesn't feel the least bit self conscious so why not, right?
On the way out I asked at reference if the kid's instructional DVDs were going to be free someday. Right now the adult instructional DVDs are free but the kid's ones aren't. The reference librarian said there aren't any kid's instructional DVDs and I told her there are. Off the top of my head I mentioned Magic Schoolbus (the VHS copies are in the "instructional" section so it's definitely considered as such) and tonight I saw a new DVD series called Popular Mechanics for Kids. I would love to try that one out but at $1.75 a pop (and with how many we rent), it would add up fast. She said I'd have to ask the head librarian of the children's section (who isn't in at night).
Meanwhile, Bridget has discovered "series" books. Most of them are junk really, but she loves them. The only title I know is the babysitter's club but there's also some on animals. She's been reading them like crazy this week. Her Grandma bought a bunch of kid's magazines for them this past weekend and Bridget blasted through them in one night. She squealed when she saw "Ask", the science magazine from the makers of Cricket. She reminds me so much of me as a kid. Just reading anything and everything she can get her hands on.
Ah, and one more thing. One of the librarians commented on how "really short" Owen is which prompted me to (stupidly) go online and look up how tall the average 4 year old is. Guess what? He's really short. So what? Well, at least I keep saying "so what" but the way the librarian kept saying "He's FOUR?" I'm left feeling like I don't feed my kid or something. Why do I let stuff like that get to me? Ugh. Silly.
I should really go to bed now :-P
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