Crafts and New Phrases

Tuesdays and Thursdays are non preschool days for Jake. So most of the time we spend those days at home during the Winter when the farm is closed. Today, while at home, we made homemade bouncy balls from a kit that Jake received at Xmas. I was skeptical about how they would turn out but they actually work and are very attractive :)

Henry has been bottle free for a week now. It has been a hard transition for him. We cut him off cold turkey after he was sick last week. He wont drink milk now at all so we are working on creative beverage containers that he will drink milk from. His new phrase is "Ta Da" when he finds something or wants to show us something. He also does a good rooster and dinosaur impersonation.

The boys had a nice Valentine's Day and wore coordinating Valentine Monster shirts. Above is the card we sent out to family this year :)

ski trips and other stuff

We went on our annual ski trip with my mother and family to Wintergreen. We had a nice time and Jake got to go tubing and skiiing this year. Jake went on the kiddie ski lift 2 times with me, without falling :)

At school, Jake just finished letter "p" - he can write the Upper case letters through P, with a little prompting on L, M, & P. Lower case are coming along and we will continue to practice. The teacher said he is doing well his letters and knows his opposites well. He has been doing well at school and not getting into trouble (getting stars instead of circles w/ frowny face) and so he gets his reward of a Redbox movie and a slushie :)

Henry is talking alot and said "sippy cup" today. He was sick yesterday and threw up 5 times (Jake had flu last week and missed 2 days of school) - But Henry is much better and we did not let him have milk while he was sick. And because he was without a bottle for 12 hours, we went ahead and decided to take him off the bottle now. He keeps asking for it "milk....milk....milk" but he has gone a complete day now. I feel sad for him because I know how much he loved it and how much of a comfort it was to him. It makes me cry just thinking about it. Poor buddy - but hopefully he will be ok moving on without his "milk" - sniff sniff ;(

Henry is also wearing some 3T pants now :)