Spelling Issues

Sounding out how to spell words is really hard if you don't say the words correctly. Eiley told Arya today that she would give her a marker she wanted if Arya could spell Bernice, or as they say "Bahnice". So Arya says B, and then I ask her what comes after the B in Bernice and she says N. I was so confused why she wasn't getting the R since she knows the R sound. I wasn't expecting her to know there was an E in there, but the R is pretty obvious, if you're saying it correctly. The B says "buh" and then the next letter must be N.

Zia kept herself busy today playing with water...again.

She also spent a bunch of time on the potty. She rarely goes, but she thinks it's funny to fart on the potty. So funny that she has perfected pulling up her own diaper.

Memorial Day

We had a really good Memorial Day today. It was beautiful. We spent most of the day outside. We started with the parade we always go to. It was much nicer this year than last. I enjoy a parade much more when it isn't freezing and raining out.

Zia got to spend some time with her favorite activity, water.

Not a Booger

Cork and I celebrated our 12th wedding anniversary today. We went to church and came home to Zia screaming and crying. She refused to nap, even with me walking her around the neighborhood in the Ergo. It took me way too long to figure out that it was her ears. I treated her ear ache with garlic oil and she was good to go when she woke up from her nap. If I hadn't seen her screaming a few hours earlier, I would never have known she'd had an ear ache.

This is not a booger. Looks like one, but it isn't. It's marker. I'm not sure how she got it to look like that, but she was pretty proud of herself.

Kite Festival

We went to a kite festival today. It was definitely not cooler by the lake. It was much warmer there than we had expected. It was also not very windy, so there weren't many kites. We still all had a good time. While there, I learned that Arya, Eiley, and I still fit into one port o potty if we have to.

Time Capsule

Eiley and Arya's school has a time capsule out front. It's been there for 25 years, so they opened it today to see what the students put in there 25 years ago. Cork took off from work to go to this event with us. Eiley pretty much sums it up. It was boring. I managed to keep Arya away, but Cork was working on his phone and let Eiley fall asleep. They had an hour long presentation with mostly speakers. It was so hard for all of the kids to sit through it. I barely managed to sit through it. I was hoping Zia would throw a fit and give me an excuse to leave.

We had a much better time at home after we left the Spike celebration.

You've Come a Long Way Baby

Every time we come to this park, I think about being here the day before Zia was born. I get around to help the twins a lot easier now, and they need a lot less help to do the equipment.

Obviously, Zia has come a long way since then too.

Accessories

This girl is such a goof. I love watching when she walks into a room with new accessories.