Yes it is confusing. Sorry, I am wanting to stop posting here and going back to just one blog. I won't get into it now but I'll let you know when I stop posting here. Videos I'm going to have to work on b/c I don't have a youtube account (it's Chris's) and I'll need to get one to post on the other blog. Nothing big just time consuming.
Anyway, so that's why I posted on the original blog and then came back over here.
Hope you enjoy the videos.
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
Tuesday, February 8, 2011
Tuesday, February 1, 2011
How To Skip Rope Without a Rope or Partner
The high today is ZERO. That doesn't include the wind chill. Which has it around -100 or something. Okay maybe not -100 but you get the idea. And I'm not one to laugh in the face of the weather men when they say STAY INSIDE. So we are.
I was desperate today. I broke into the upcoming birthday stash. She's got alot of energy. and LOVES to jump.
Why couldn't I have invented something like this? And no it certainly isn't the same as having 2 of your friends turn a rope singing little diddies while you jump outside in the sunshine on a playground BUT it'll do for awhile.
And yes Chris (he has hawk like eyesight when it comes to things in my pictures and videos) there are potato strawlike chips on the floor under the dishwasher. I had just spilled them and when I couldn't get even a moment to sweep them up because I was hearing Mama for the millioneth time I got out the skipper and swept later. Oh and the dishwasher was running so it sounds really loud.
It has 3 speeds and let me tell you the slowest speed is pretty darn hard. I love how she stands back to judge just the right time to jump into the "rope."
I was desperate today. I broke into the upcoming birthday stash. She's got alot of energy. and LOVES to jump.
Why couldn't I have invented something like this? And no it certainly isn't the same as having 2 of your friends turn a rope singing little diddies while you jump outside in the sunshine on a playground BUT it'll do for awhile.
And yes Chris (he has hawk like eyesight when it comes to things in my pictures and videos) there are potato strawlike chips on the floor under the dishwasher. I had just spilled them and when I couldn't get even a moment to sweep them up because I was hearing Mama for the millioneth time I got out the skipper and swept later. Oh and the dishwasher was running so it sounds really loud.
It has 3 speeds and let me tell you the slowest speed is pretty darn hard. I love how she stands back to judge just the right time to jump into the "rope."
Friday, January 28, 2011
Animal Whisperer
Virginia certainly has things she likes and animals is one of them. They talk to her and she talks to them. She knows that some of them are bigger than others. Usually if she has say a mouse and then smaller mice the bigger mouse is the mama mouse and the smaller mice are the babies. She likes to line them all up. I've also started rolling a dice and she'll yell out the number and then we'll count out a certain animal (yes some of the little animals are so inexpensive that I buy 5 for counting purposes).
Then she left the alligator (or is it a crocodile) in charge while she...
hopped around the room as a frog.
Sunday, January 23, 2011
Olympic Hopeful or Dancing With The Stars Contestant?
I rolled over in bed this morning to find Virginia awake and smiling at me, it was 4:45am. The no nap situation had been going really really well the past few weeks. Around 7-7:30 she would go to bed and sleep until 7-7:30 in the morning.
Until a few days ago and she started going to sleep at 6:30 and sometimes even earlier. Then she would wake up about 8pm crying saying she was scared of the dark so i would have to lay down with her, sometimes she would back to sleep quickly and other nights it would take forever. And every time I would get up she would come looking for me. UGH..Last night she fell asleep early and then woke up once scared but went back to sleep quickly and then was up at 4:45.
I tried to convince her that since it was still dark outside we aren't allowed to get up. She always says at night, "It's getting dark outside." And she knows that it's getting close to bedtime. I tried to just close my eyes and see if she would get the hint but then she started flopping all around in the bed. So I turned on a video for her (i was up way late working on a project) and at some point I woke up laying on my back and she was laying on top of me watching her video. UGH. Anyway, I suppose I'm going to have to do my best to keep her awake to 7:30pm. Finally this morning after she was flopping all around and laying on top of me I said go ahead and get up. Next thing I knew she had her whole collection of cars in the bed and was quietly playing with them.
Okay on to the title of the post. While I fix supper I will often turn on my ipod and Virginia will dance in the kitchen while I cook. After each song she will say, "that was a good one." So yesterday I was in the office working on "the project" and she came in and found a roll of white ribbon. She unrolled the whole thing and I knew where this was going. I have looked at enough parent/teacher magazines to know that they actually sell arm thingys with ribbons attached for kids to dance with. I also had on some piano music while I was in the office and sure enough she started dancing. Then she wanted to take the ribbon upstairs to dance with in the kitchen. I was tickled she let me snag some of this on video which she normally doesn't. And I'm not sure if it still is but at one point wasn't ribbon dancing an olympic event? I of course think she's a child prodigy. Hope you all enjoy the videos. The first song is Billy Joel, My Life and the second is Barry Manilow's Copa Cabana. What? I'm trying to broaden her music repertoire from just Jesus Loves Me and the Cars soundtrack (Life Is A Highway is her favorite song).
*and please ignore the mess that is my kitchen.
Until a few days ago and she started going to sleep at 6:30 and sometimes even earlier. Then she would wake up about 8pm crying saying she was scared of the dark so i would have to lay down with her, sometimes she would back to sleep quickly and other nights it would take forever. And every time I would get up she would come looking for me. UGH..Last night she fell asleep early and then woke up once scared but went back to sleep quickly and then was up at 4:45.
I tried to convince her that since it was still dark outside we aren't allowed to get up. She always says at night, "It's getting dark outside." And she knows that it's getting close to bedtime. I tried to just close my eyes and see if she would get the hint but then she started flopping all around in the bed. So I turned on a video for her (i was up way late working on a project) and at some point I woke up laying on my back and she was laying on top of me watching her video. UGH. Anyway, I suppose I'm going to have to do my best to keep her awake to 7:30pm. Finally this morning after she was flopping all around and laying on top of me I said go ahead and get up. Next thing I knew she had her whole collection of cars in the bed and was quietly playing with them.
Okay on to the title of the post. While I fix supper I will often turn on my ipod and Virginia will dance in the kitchen while I cook. After each song she will say, "that was a good one." So yesterday I was in the office working on "the project" and she came in and found a roll of white ribbon. She unrolled the whole thing and I knew where this was going. I have looked at enough parent/teacher magazines to know that they actually sell arm thingys with ribbons attached for kids to dance with. I also had on some piano music while I was in the office and sure enough she started dancing. Then she wanted to take the ribbon upstairs to dance with in the kitchen. I was tickled she let me snag some of this on video which she normally doesn't. And I'm not sure if it still is but at one point wasn't ribbon dancing an olympic event? I of course think she's a child prodigy. Hope you all enjoy the videos. The first song is Billy Joel, My Life and the second is Barry Manilow's Copa Cabana. What? I'm trying to broaden her music repertoire from just Jesus Loves Me and the Cars soundtrack (Life Is A Highway is her favorite song).
*and please ignore the mess that is my kitchen.
Wednesday, January 19, 2011
Sunday, January 16, 2011
Dress Up
MOPS started last week and we've been busy ever since! I had one of Virginia's favorite babysitters come on Friday morning so I could get out and do some errands on my own (she's coming next week one morning so i can get started on getting the house ready). Yes it is MONTHS before we move but I worked hard in Leavenworth to get things semi-organized so that when the packers/movers come we would be ready and have most things in a place. It worked really well. Virginia's outgrown clothes and my clothes that I will fit in one day are all in totes labeled with a number and then recorded in a notebook so that we don't just have totes hanging out and not know what's in them. Anyway, we've acquired more stuff and I'm needing to get it somewhat organized and this particular babysitter is only here until March when she heads overseas to study.
Then on Saturday one of my dearest friends here has an AWESOME husband who volunteers on a regular basis to watch their kids and Virginia while she and I get out. So yesterday we headed to a parent/teacher store called Lakeshore Learning. We have several of their things here and I just wanted to go and see. Well several hundred dollars later I now have enough manipulatives, alphabet learning games, numbers games, counting tools, craft supplies,alphabet beads, ect...to outfit a pre-school in my house! UGH I miss teaching (some days more than others) and wow I went a tad overboard yesterday getting my "classroom" ready! My justification for all this is that since Virginia doesn't nap I can put some of these things in her room during quiet time and she can do some play/learning while in there. I'll get a picture of what all I got.
So after blowing all my money in the school supply store we went to the mall where I was all out of the mood to spend anymore money but I enjoyed just being out and helping my friend do some shopping. It was a wonderful day and when I got back to my friends house Virginia was all happy and just kept saying how much fun she had had playing.
Sorry for just the one picture. This is Virginia one day who wanted to put on her fairy outfit with her wings and play. Thank you Holly and Leanna for the fairy dress up chest from last Christmas she LOVES it!
Then on Saturday one of my dearest friends here has an AWESOME husband who volunteers on a regular basis to watch their kids and Virginia while she and I get out. So yesterday we headed to a parent/teacher store called Lakeshore Learning. We have several of their things here and I just wanted to go and see. Well several hundred dollars later I now have enough manipulatives, alphabet learning games, numbers games, counting tools, craft supplies,alphabet beads, ect...to outfit a pre-school in my house! UGH I miss teaching (some days more than others) and wow I went a tad overboard yesterday getting my "classroom" ready! My justification for all this is that since Virginia doesn't nap I can put some of these things in her room during quiet time and she can do some play/learning while in there. I'll get a picture of what all I got.
So after blowing all my money in the school supply store we went to the mall where I was all out of the mood to spend anymore money but I enjoyed just being out and helping my friend do some shopping. It was a wonderful day and when I got back to my friends house Virginia was all happy and just kept saying how much fun she had had playing.
Sorry for just the one picture. This is Virginia one day who wanted to put on her fairy outfit with her wings and play. Thank you Holly and Leanna for the fairy dress up chest from last Christmas she LOVES it!
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