So I'm not really sure how I feel about sight words. It feels to me like sight words are to phonics as "whole language" is to grammar. I'm a huge fan of the basics when it comes to learning to read/spell/write. I feel like the "basics" I learned - phonics, grammar, and later root words (particularly Greek, Latin, and Teutonic roots) have been a ( Read more... )

... my girls are using their Biscoff cookies as cell phones to call God and ask for breakfast burritos. No, I'm not joking.

So our morning got a bit derailed when Nora decided to go all Exorcist in the car. Yuck! Thank goodness for orange-scented Armor All wipes. And orange-scented Febreze air freshener. She did this when we were practically at the library for story time, so I gave the library a miss and drove home instead. This resulted in chicken soup for lunch ( Read more... )

So it's just a really unique experience screwing up on a Wii Fit game - and having your 4-year old daughter inform you that was "EPIC FAIL." Yes, those were her exact words. I about lost it laughing! Then I got further along and messed up again, and she goes, "That would be FAIL." So I turned around and asked her, in her mind, what was the ( Read more... )

So I was discussing the day's activities with the girls, and suggesting that we could have "potato pancakes" for dinner (yeah, I'm gonna try my hand at latke-making... I have a LOT of potatoes to use).  So Jordan starts in with her 4-year old logic ( Read more... )

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I think Chris said it best. :-) There's a reason I haven't really been into a modern game system - loved my NES (and we still have Chris' NES hooked up), played Super NES very briefly senior year of high school, and Play Station a few times during breaks freshman year of college. But between time constraints and lack of skills, I haven't done ( Read more... )

So I actually got our Christmas setup done in our living room. We keep it simple... we don't do a tree for multiple reasons. One set is practical - with a real tree, we'd have allergies (and possibly mess!) to contend with, and with a fake tree, we'd have dust (and thus also probably allergies) and storage to contend with, so we can't really win ( Read more... )

I can't resist - another Jordanism:

Sitting at a stoplight:
J: "Mommy, can you clean my glasses?"
Me: "No, sweetie, I'm driving."
J: "No, you're not! You're stopping!"

OK, so this happened earlier this week, but it was so funny that it deserved to be enshrined here for my non-immediate family who hasn't heard about it ( Read more... )