Momma's Pride

By the way, one of the reasons I have wanted to start my blog is, to keep up with my ever changing children. So I keep notes on my phone when they accomplish something. I am gonna probably start writing some posts dedicated to that. Im probably gonna post more about our activities everyday. I wanna be able to pull this up in a month from now and say "wow, look how much they've learned" it makes me proud and toots my horn when they learn a lot! I LOVE playing school with my children. I keep it at their level of intrust always. At this stage, it's all about play to learn! When my son decides to pull out his brigade of dump trucks, we count, talk about size or even speed. Not to mention, the various colors. There is always something, to tweak their little minds. It's actually rather humorous, how much faster Lorelai's matures than Finn's. I swear that kid is all boy, but even he cant resist sticking his hand in some finger paint and talking about the color orange.

Finn, working on circles today. started out triangular but he got it soon enough! Trying to teach your child to write? One word..Magnadoodle!!!

Might as well talk about something that amazed me with Finn tonight. I dont know if its necessarily a spark of genius but there is just something so prideful about watching your youngsters figure something out! While we kept our friends' children tonight, we got out their game of elefun. He has never seen the game had no idea what was going on at first. All he knew was the older kids excitement made him very excited about it as well. I held his little catcher net while he watched the older ones doing their thing. I had already tried to just show him what to do but he wasnt up for taking Mom's advice tonight(already a man!). Finally, I start seeing those gears turning. He looks from what they are doing to my hands a couple times and then proceeds to come say "please" with his hand out. I hand it over and watch my little big boy walk up and join his big friends with his net in the air trying to catch the butterflies. He caught 1 and was so stinkin excited! I was so proud of him. Watching him using such common sense and following the leader just made my heart flutter.

L to R ..Lorelai, Jacelyn , Kacen, Peyson and Finn..and of course Stephen my grown up kid in the mix!

In the meantime, I look around to find our food loving 10 month old, taking this oppurtunity to eat her friends' snacks..Guess he isnt the only one with a learning curve!