One Thing - 4/14/14

Today is my first Monday off from work since early November that I am not out of town. Hooray! Although I haven't typically worked Mondays, I have been in the past number of months to help with a maternity leave and then cover some vacation days. It has been lots of fun to hang out with these two cuties while their big brother is at preschool this morning!

One Thing - 4/13/14

It is Jonah's turn to bring snacks for preschool tomorrow. So, we made Rice Krispy birds nests tonight. The boys put all the eggs in the nests. Yum!

And, this little girl ran around making mischief...

One Thing - 4/11/14

Enjoying a beautiful evening

One Thing - 4/10/14

It's been a crazy week chock full of events. Blog posts, even these simple ones, have been at the absolute bottom of the priority list - even much lower than sleep! And, I don't have many pictures either. But, here is one.

One Thing - 4/6/14

I don't know if she is trying to be like Mommy or Jonah, but she sure is cute playing piano!

One Thing - 4/5/14

Jonah started soccer this morning. This is his 2nd year participating. Last year, he enjoyed it but never got too into the game and would mostly either just stand still on the field or follow the herd of kids from a distance. We didn't know if he would want to play again this year and hadn't said anything to him about it before he brought it up to us saying he wanted to play again. Today was much different than last year. Although he was still timid about kicking the ball during the game, he was right in the middle of the pack of kids chasing the ball. And, he had a smile on his face whenever he was on the field.

These pictures aren't very good since they were taken from a distance with my phone.

Jonah is the one with the purple hoodie on under his red shirt.

Team Huddle

Practicing...

Playing a game...

One Thing - 4/3/14

As an SLP and a mom, it is easy to focus on the speech and language development of my little ones. Jonah has always been ahead of the game in all areas. However, he has always had a frontal lisp. My goal for him was to have it corrected by the time he started kindergarten. We have worked on it off and on for about a year. We've never been too intense about it but practiced a bit here and there. Jonah has been very aware of where the "s" and "z" sounds are in his words and quickly got to the point that he could read whole books using correct tongue placement. But, he had not yet started using it in conversation, which tends to be the most difficult part of learning correct production of a sound. So, a couple of weeks ago when Jonah was asking how he could get more Legos, I made a quick promise that if he could use his good "s" and "z" sounds all the time for a week that I would buy him a new lego set. Little did I realize just how motivating that promise would be...it was like he flipped a switch and started using correct tongue placement with nearly 100% accuracy. Crazy! One week and a day later he met his goal. Today, his new Lego Creator Mountain Hut arrived via UPS. From the time it arrived this afternoon until it was time for baths, Jonah built and re-built and created!