IT'S TOT SCHOOL TIME! WEATHER, MATH, NUMBERS 0-1

Back on track with tot school this week. I introduced math to angelina, weather , and numbers 0-1 to both girls. This week It was more of a sucessful week for lei lei, she actually interacted more.

MATH AND NUMBERS:I made home-made flash cards (check my other post on how i made them) with simple numbers 0-3 and their combinations, she did well the hardest was the 3+2 combo but we worked through it. We also worked on the number 0= nothing and why it means nothing. The next was number 1. We did a color sheet, counting and tracing and writing out one.



WEATHER:We used our lil chart on the fridge I made everyday they took turns on the weather determination, We also did matching worsheets, and a rainbow craft with grandma as a helper, since they seen a rainbow for the first time in long beach, now angelina is really interested in them.


RAINBOW CRAFT:




ANGELINA:I did seperately name tracing and letter reconizing in her name, and a couple letter worksheets.




LEILANI:We did matching colors and shapes, counting with fishes, matching letters in her name and angelina's.

LOST POST~ ANGELINA'S FIRST HAIRCUT

This some how was soposed to be posted a week ago! But I must have looked over it!
I finally trimmed angelina's hair, 2 inches off, and she asked for bangs. She looks so different and cute. What brought this on is eddie asked for lei lei to have bangs again so I cut her's. Of course angelina wanted her hair cut too.

PARANORMAL STATE OF MIND

Lately "things" have been happening, sounds, playing with toys, walking in the girls room, I go in there and the girls are sound asleep. Starting two nights ago lei lei refuses to sleep in her bed, you literally cant force her, last night was the worst. We put her asleep at 830 but she cried off and on from 830 to 10 then brief sleep til 12ish when we heard cry for a good amount of time, I finally went in there to her she was sobbing uncontrolably and practicaly leaped in my arms. She was shaking and mumbling, I brought her to our bed, and tried to calm her down and talk to her, which communicating with a 2 yr old is hard. She kept saying monser monser..and I said show me whats bothering you..Well I carried her to her room and she pointed to the same window angelina seen the boy and most family that comes feels something, it gave me chills and wanted to cry, We went back to eddie and of course he skeptical and took her himself, she led him by the hand and ran to her room and pointed again. We finally got her back to sleep and put her back in her bed. Then around 3am angelina came in, which is highly unusual crying, saying "something is bothering me", Then fell asleep on our bed. The next day after picking her up from school she said, mommy I need to tell you something, of course thinking something to do with school or whatever is on a 3 1/2 yr old mind, She said, my fancy nancy doll was walking in my room last night, and I was scared, then continued to say and when I tried to get off my bed, she tried to hold my feet down" This gave me mixed feelings, I immediately told her oh you were dreaming, and no mommy not dreaming I was awake, thats why I came to your room" I want to believe my 3 yr old but this is a pretty crazy story, and she's so serious about it and constient in her story. (this is just one of the incedents)

My question is whats real and whats fake? Do you believe we are alone on this earth?
I know alot of people are skeptical, which hey thats how feel. I've witnessed many things throughout my life, especially with my mom and sister, and gloria. His mom believe's us and his family. I know your thinking theres got to be a logical reason, my girls dont watch scary movies or shows,and have never had these experiences before with them. At this point i'm not sure where to turn or what to do? We have had the apartment blessed, holy water, crosses and rosaries. It's my girls, my job is to protect them in any way possible and I feel like my hands are tied. My bro in law wants to set up a camcorder in their room, but im not sure on that. I'm asking for some prayers, please. I know this is a touchy subject, but its happening to us if you believe it or not.

HOME~MADE MATH FLASHCARDS

Frustrated lately with angelina's school, I just dont think she's learning as much as I can teach her, when the teacher asks you for ideas and websites several times, plus the parents there suck their not friendly and always talk in spanish around me haha since I know, lil bitches! I'm the white devil I guess. In her class there is angelina which is mixed mexican and irish, and one black kid and the rest of latin decent and most dont speak english, so the debate is do we keep her in this school or pull her out? I love that she's interacting with kids her own age, but Im finding hard to find the positives. Anyways this post wasnt about that! lol

I couldnt find flash cards for math that would be good for a preschooler, So I made them! I made some problems on the laptop and printed them stuck them on pink cardstock, then added buttons to the numbers , then the answers on the back I did in number and word, so she can start reconizing the word that corasponds to the number. So far their a hit.

LUNCH AND THE MALL WITH LOLA AND LOLO

As we were getting ready for a playdate at becci's, there was a knock at the door, not expecting anyone was lil hestiant about answering it, (I watch too much criminal minds) ..lol It was the inlaws, Surprise visit. Thinking they were just stoppng by continued on getting ready, til I hear their taking us to lunch, the akward feeling to tell them I have plans and why wasn't eddie telling them we have plans and agreeing for us to go..Pulling eddie aside, he of course said I'm not telling them no, So of course we ended up going with them, which really sucks havent seen my friends since december and feeling better damn it. After lunch we headed over to the B.P. mall to walk around and shop. Leilani talked her lolo into as many ride on they had, and theres alot in this mall. We headed to sears at the end of journey, where im not really a shopper there, but eddie is due to all the tools. Out of boredom I checked out the maternity section, Not bad! Nice stuff and plus size wow, not crappy looking stuff. I have one pair of pants that fit me and now that im showing my shirts arent fitting right. She offered to buy me a pair of pants and 3 shirts, which of course said no but she insisted saying you need clothes that fit and your comfy in, which is true. The pants needed to be hemmed but other than that the fit loose and comfy. Picking up angelina from pre school we caught up in that rain storm and no rain coat, which by the way her dad dropped off rain coat and rain boats last night, uhh anyone think its a lil too late? Whatever.
Sorry for the long post, had alot to say I guess..lol

POTTY TRAINING GIRL!

BBQ AT OUR PLACE

On saturday we had a bbq at our place with lyn and visna, steak, pork chops and hot dogs, with salad, rice and grilled corn on the cob. YUM! They brought their wii controllers so we could battle it out at the new Super Mario Bros. So fun to be able play with 4 players now. I was in last place almost everytime, im a sore loser and suck at video games, hard to focus when you have lei lei is up to no good! Well got caught up in a game, and Eddie noticed it was too quiet, and angelina was in her room where's lei lei? She got real busy in our room/ bathroom, she got into all the bathroom cabinets, my make up and drawers, it was such a mess that I took pictures, this girl will be the death of me! She was probibly out of sights for 3 -5 minutes, she did alot of damage in a lil bit of time. I still can't get the carpet make up stains out, need some stronger stuff!

FINALLY TOT SCHOOL TIME!

With being so sick and dizzy and preggo, its been rough adjusting with two toddlers and pregnant, not gonna sugar coat it , its hard! not supermom, But life is getting easier and with our winter break, I feel refreshed and ready for a challenge. We started slow this week and started tomorrow we will back to normal, I even planned the week out and put stuff together, hopefully it was help move things along.

First activity we did was color matching for lei lei , When I was with eddie at home depot we took a few double color samples to do a color matching board, It kept her entertained for about 7 minutes..lol

For Angelina, I printed out some cutting practice sheets, which I'm the worst to show someone how to use scissors especially since I'm left-handed and and cant cut straight for crap! She did good, needs more practice but seen progress with daddy's help.



Eddie cut out some hearts for the girls, and they decorated them with glitter and markers, I dont have one to show due to lei lei threw them in the trash, shes so nice!

Our next activity ended up being canceled due to a button fiasco, I had these button flowers planned out as a craft but lei lei got hold of the button and sprinkled them all over the house, Angelina would clean them up, which would take forever with lei lei's help , then lei would pour them out again! Drove me crazy and my patience was done at that moment.

(she knows she's in trouble!)

We also spent one day just doing puzzles, they have quite collection, so I put them all over the rug with their pieces, and it actually kept them occuipied for a good amount of time.





One puzzle I did alone with angelina, was her clock puzzle, LOVE THIS ONE! It teaches shapes, colors, numbers, and time. I did a lesson on how a clock works, and what number is that etc..

I'm starting numbers this week and the first number we did was Zero, I did a explain on what zero means and let her color a zero to add to her book of numbers im putting together.



Last I made a weather chart for the fridge, out of cutouts, cardstock, laminent, and magnets. (got the idea off allkidsnewtwork.com) and our friend jill's blog. All it is a sign saying TODAY THE WEATHER IS: I made 5 different magnets cloudy, snowing, raining, windy, sunnny. Angelina wakes up and wants to know the weather lately due to the storms, thought this would be a great way to learn for them, Today she said it was windy and sunny. I didnt think it was windy but she showed me that the trees were moving..lol Well I guess she was right!

FAMILY TIME AT JOHN'S INCREDIBLE PIZZA

For a perfect saturday eddie's family and us met up at john's incredible pizza for some food and fun. There was no line which was amazing for a saturday, The food was great and they were impressed with so many choices of food, and drinks :0) The girls and everyone else had a blast with the games and rides, I won a horse race against my mother and sister in law, yea..lol We ended up staying over 3 hours. After we headed home for a movie and to try out the new super mario bros game for wii eddie bought us, which is so hard, I suck at video games..lol in My mother in law blessed our place and gave the girls blessed crosses to keep them safe with all the werid stuff going on in this apartment. She said the girls room has quite a presence feeling, I just for some reason feel uncomfortable in their room. I that just pray god protects us and keeps us safe from anything that shouldnt be here.

visna not feelin' so hot after that ride

angelina loved it

the guys racing against eachother

yes I'm the winner of the girls race

a lil rocket fun

everyone on the ride inlcuding brave angelina

average lei lei expression

CLEANING OUT THE GARAGE

Eddie needs to get a hold on this garage its a mess, and we need some major organization, we threw out alot of stuff and donating shoes/clothes/ toys, and still have more to do but it is looking better. We let the girls play outside on their many ride ons which is awesome to be on the bottom floor with a connected garage. Angelina is getting so good at riding her bike, Eddie put on a bike handle to help but we dont even need it.

patiently waiting for the battery to charge and I cleaned their escalade and made it shiny again

there she goes

so proud of her!