car wash- great outdoor challenge

Day 6

My two loves to wash cars and today was a nice day to do it.
The car sure needed one.

Raves about my little man

Where do I even begin? I love my little man, he is cute, handsome and just a really good little boy....good little helper... mama's boy (and daddy's) for sure.

This morning, after some snuggling in bed and breakfast, we read a few books together. Actually, Prime read most of it himself. He always asks me when he reads a book that is above his level. "Is it okay if I mess up?", he asks. "Of course. That means you are learning.", I tell him.

Then he happily reads and points his finger at the words. This boy can read a lot considering we haven't formally learned phonics. I'm planning to start with that in the fall with him, most likely.


I wasn't sure about this set of books in the beginning. But Prime really likes them. I purposely got him the B and Q book (since Prime have some trouble identifying lower case b and d, p and q). I couldn't find the D and P book.

Later, he puts away all his clothes, and his daddy's clothes all by himself w/o me saying anything. I think he started because he saw me putting away my clothes. The sweet thing is he says, "Mommy, I am going to put away my clothes everyday because I want to make you happy." Words to melt my heart. The boy got a super sweet mouth. Sometimes, he will say, I don't want to make you mad because I don't want you to get white hair. :-)

Then he goes down stairs to clean Fluffy's cage ( our hamster) all by himself. Usually, he and J do it together so it's a big step for him to do it all by himself. :-) And he did a great job! The boy even swept!

I tell him, you are getting purple today. And he says, "Yeah !"

This color system is used at the beginning of year in J's school for 1st graders. (Red- 2 or more warnings (note to parent) Yellow-warning, Green-good day, Blue- great day (did 1 thing good w/o reminding) Purple-excellent day (did 2 or more things great w/o reminding and teacher will write a happy note to parents).

When J was in school, she got mostly green, and on a few occasions, she gets blue. Usually, only 1 person gets blue. And even more rare is a child gets purple. But it does happen.

At the time, Prime always asks J when we pick her up, what did you get today? (as the color code report came everyday; the children color in the chart themselves) At the time, I was annoyed at the chart since there was no clear guidelines and very discretionary. Luckily or unluckily, J didn't care too much about the color she got. She never got yellow, but when she did get blue, she wasn't thrilled either. After 2 months, the daily color report stopped and a weekly report came.

Anyway, Little Prime, you deserve a PURPLE today. I love you googel (yes, it is a #).

-mommy

scenes from our house (Laundry)

First, let me show you our "sleeping beauty"- J. Poor girl, she's running a temperature and has been sleeping on and off, but mostly just zapped out.



Then, there is my other little cutie, Prime. I don't know what exactly he was doing with the Popsicle sticks, but he was enjoying playing with them. He calls it "workshop".


This is a boy who is naturally funny. Even something as mundane as laundry, he make it look so much fun.

1st load, made it up stairs with the whole load; having a celebration as he got it upstairs all by himself. :)

more fun, balancing a folded towel; going for the 2nd load; sliding across the floor; up the stairs again

He is a pro at folding our towels.

I couldn't resist snapping a picture of his cute feet while he was folding towel; all done for now.