A1 is really smart. She loves school. I hope she stays like that. She started reading when she was 4 and she knew how to spell a lot of words before she started kindergarten. She knew all the sight words that kindergartners need to know by the end of the year when she started kindergarten. She is really good at sounding out words and spelling them. The other day she was making a chore list for herself and she wanted to write exercise on it. Why? I don't know. No matter what I said to her I could not persuade her that exercising is not a chore. So she wrote it. Exersize. Close enough.
Hubby and I were going through her Friday folder from school and looking at all of her work that she had done for the week and came across some really interesting things. First of all, she is a very good artist. Some things she draws you wouldn't believe a 6 year old did them. There was picture in her folder of her and A2 on the swing set in our back yard, which was excellent, and she had written some sentences about the picture. They read: I wint to the playground. My sister wint with me. We had fun.
Simple enough. Honest spelling mistake. Then we read a classroom rule that she had made up. It said something about if there is a "dore" you shouldn't be "runing" because you "myit" run into the "dore". Hubby and I DIED laughing. How funny is that. OK, leaving out the n in running is understandable. Even spelling the word "might" is hard because it is a word with silent "gh" sound. But she has known how to spell "door" since before she started kindergarten. I guess we didn't read enough this summer. However, I was thinking, we do live in the south and we do have southern accents and are around southern accents all the time so when some people say words like "went" it probably does sound like "wint". Those are papers we will keep forever and laugh about when she gets older.
Well, there is one other word that she really screwed up. Lately she had become obsessed with Indiana Jones and Star Wars. We have watched all the Indy movies except the new one and now we are watching Star Wars. We probably watched the first SW a dozen times this weekend. Like I said, she's a great artist and she LOVES to draw so she drew a picture of R2-D2. I was putting a movie in the DVD player and she wanted to show me her picture. I glanced at it and saw her cute little R2-D2 and she pointed out to me that she wrote "Star Wars" a the top of the paper. "Oh that's great A1" I say. So she ran to show daddy. Hubby calls to me from the bedroom, "Hey mommy, did you see A1's picture?" "Yeah, It's good" I yell back. "No, did you see how A1 spelled Star Wars?" he asked. Again, I said "I saw the picture, it is good." "Did you read it?" hubby says.
I walk in the room to see what he's talking about, pick up the picture and actually read the words this time. Like the first time I saw it, it had a really cute picture of R2-D2 on it only this time I read what it said and about choked. It simply said "Star Whors". Hubby and I were trying so hard to hold back our laughs that we were sputtering. I had to walk out of the room to compose myself. I came back and told her that she did a good job sounding out the word "war" but it wasn't spelled that way. Needless to say, I made her change it. I don't want anything sitting around my house that says "Star Whors" on it. What would people think?
Wednesday, September 3, 2008
How Much?
It's back to school time. A1 started 1st grade this year. She did extremely well in kindergarten and I know that she will excel in 1st grade. However, we are a little rusty so getting back into the swing of things has taken a few days. It's getting everyone ready in the a.m. and to the right places is what's been a challenge for me.
Hubby has to be at work before the kids get up so it's all up to me to get everybody ready. A1 gets up and eats her breakfast, changes her clothes and brushes her teeth without a problem. Different story with A2. Everything is a fight with her. How you stir her oatmeal, what she's wearing, where she stands when she brushes her teeth, what blanket she's taking to school that day, who gets to open the front door, who gets to get in the car first, everything. Everyday this goes on and I'm going to go inSANE! Of course when we get to school we go through the lipstick drama and her attaching herself to me so I can't get out the door. I think I wrote about that in a previous blog.
Coming home is no picnic either. Hubby gets A1 most of the time and I have to get A2 because it's on my way home from work. Well, not really but I'm closer to her. So I pick her up and we usually have to go somewhere like to the store and I really hate that. I don't like going anywhere with her. She always makes a scene. She refuses to ride in the cart and she wants me to carry her. I can't carry her all through the store! She's too heavy. So I usually end up trying to walk with her hanging on my legs and crying. That slows me way down. Then she'll see something she wants and she'll say "Go back, go back mommy!" until I go back to look at whatever it is. Today it was a Dora lunch bag, hair clips, stickers, some Hello Kitty toy, coloring books, fruit snacks, cookies, etc. Oh and the FISH! I don't like the fish at Wal-Mart.
I went to Wal-Mart mainly to pick up a cough medicine that A2's Dr. called in that was supposed to be there yesterday but wasn't. It wasn't ready when I got there at 5:45 this evening either. Then, after I shop around and endure the evil stares from people who probably don't have children, I go to the pharmacy to pick up the medicine and the lady there says "It's $50." I said "What?!?!" No way I'm paying $5o for cough medicine. She said "Your insurance only paid 62 cent towards it." What good is insurance if it's only going to pay pennies on prescriptions? "I don't want it then. I'm not paying 50 bucks for cough syrup" I told her. That was fine with her. She probably agreed with me.
So, I've spent 45 minutes in Wal-Mart with 3 year old A2 only to walk out of there with 50 bucks worth of groceries and no cough medicine. Not to mention the extra day I waited for it to get there. I am sure there is a way that these people at the pharmacy can tell you how much a medicine is going to be before you go to check out. That way you can tell them forget it or they can call your Dr. to see if there is something in a GENERIC you can get. Now I have to wait until tomorrow to call the Dr. to get him to Rx something else. That's a whole extra day!
Well, I'll look on the bright side . . . I was able to get flashlights, bottled water, and some non perishable food while I was there. Just in case one of the 3 tropical storms/hurricanes that are heading this way hit us. I won't have to go to the store tomorrow. Smile. I also filled my gas tank up while I was there and saved 3 cent/gallon because I bought a WM gift card.
Hubby has to be at work before the kids get up so it's all up to me to get everybody ready. A1 gets up and eats her breakfast, changes her clothes and brushes her teeth without a problem. Different story with A2. Everything is a fight with her. How you stir her oatmeal, what she's wearing, where she stands when she brushes her teeth, what blanket she's taking to school that day, who gets to open the front door, who gets to get in the car first, everything. Everyday this goes on and I'm going to go inSANE! Of course when we get to school we go through the lipstick drama and her attaching herself to me so I can't get out the door. I think I wrote about that in a previous blog.
Coming home is no picnic either. Hubby gets A1 most of the time and I have to get A2 because it's on my way home from work. Well, not really but I'm closer to her. So I pick her up and we usually have to go somewhere like to the store and I really hate that. I don't like going anywhere with her. She always makes a scene. She refuses to ride in the cart and she wants me to carry her. I can't carry her all through the store! She's too heavy. So I usually end up trying to walk with her hanging on my legs and crying. That slows me way down. Then she'll see something she wants and she'll say "Go back, go back mommy!" until I go back to look at whatever it is. Today it was a Dora lunch bag, hair clips, stickers, some Hello Kitty toy, coloring books, fruit snacks, cookies, etc. Oh and the FISH! I don't like the fish at Wal-Mart.
I went to Wal-Mart mainly to pick up a cough medicine that A2's Dr. called in that was supposed to be there yesterday but wasn't. It wasn't ready when I got there at 5:45 this evening either. Then, after I shop around and endure the evil stares from people who probably don't have children, I go to the pharmacy to pick up the medicine and the lady there says "It's $50." I said "What?!?!" No way I'm paying $5o for cough medicine. She said "Your insurance only paid 62 cent towards it." What good is insurance if it's only going to pay pennies on prescriptions? "I don't want it then. I'm not paying 50 bucks for cough syrup" I told her. That was fine with her. She probably agreed with me.
So, I've spent 45 minutes in Wal-Mart with 3 year old A2 only to walk out of there with 50 bucks worth of groceries and no cough medicine. Not to mention the extra day I waited for it to get there. I am sure there is a way that these people at the pharmacy can tell you how much a medicine is going to be before you go to check out. That way you can tell them forget it or they can call your Dr. to see if there is something in a GENERIC you can get. Now I have to wait until tomorrow to call the Dr. to get him to Rx something else. That's a whole extra day!
Well, I'll look on the bright side . . . I was able to get flashlights, bottled water, and some non perishable food while I was there. Just in case one of the 3 tropical storms/hurricanes that are heading this way hit us. I won't have to go to the store tomorrow. Smile. I also filled my gas tank up while I was there and saved 3 cent/gallon because I bought a WM gift card.
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