it's all fun and games

someone took my camera...

front entry way

adorable toes!

counter

....chris's shoe

chair

an ever so tired me

part of my stick arrangement

patio table umbrella holder

hummm going down to see daddy maybe?

bawahhhhhh

nate grabbed my camera and took some pics today. silly card. he's a funny kid!

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Posted by mel at 7:18 PM

matt's house

driving the super duper and ever so cool truck!

yeah!

"mom can i have one?"

"no!"
haha

why share when you can have your own back hoe???? hahaha

how green are you chris that your son drove a digger AND a back hoe this morning?

then they went for a wagon ride, sheena pulled them, i watched from my chair. ha

then they went on a bug hunt. and found lots!

it's FINALLY summer here! nate and i spent the morning at his buddy's house and played while his mom and i caught up on us and life

it's SO nice out today! LOVE it!

with that i am outta here, i am going to catch some rays!

(*chris, i cleaned the lens bawahhhh)

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Posted by mel at 1:12 PM

we met with the speech pathologist today regarding nate's speech issues. it has been decided that nate should start speech therapy in the fall. at first i was caught off guard because i was not (nor am i) concerned. from that i went running to guilt! which i will spare you's all with those details. wanna know what totally helped? and with in minutes i was back to total cool and then excitement! why? we get FREE speech therapy, with parental classes on how to teach kids to speak, what to look for, he is now signed up for 2 more classes (fun classes) like mom and me rhyme, read, speak and learn and i get hands on teaching to better teach him. for free! yippee! i am SO stoked about it! all. for. free!

back to what helped me. sure god's word is always a good start but to be honest, i thought about my friend at the juggling act and what she shared a few months ago

clicky to linky

http://penny-thejugglingact.blogspot.com/2011/02/struggling-little.html

i didn't face exactly what she did; i was feeling guilt for not doing enough or something wrong that made it happen or how could i have missed it-ness...

but it's ok. i am just glad that i live in a great province that offers such amazing services (for free!) and we were able to catch it early and correct it quickly!

nate is having a hard time pronouncing certain words, which is very common at his age, it's nothing to worry about and super easy to correct!

thanks p for being so open and helping me out months later! 1 comments

Posted by mel at 7:00 PM

concert, paper and miss.a

we took nate to the manifest concert mon night. he LOVED it and was quite impressed with the volume the group made

the paper is ready! the paper is ready! and it looks great! i am SO making ME a batch with nice paper and not flyer's!

thinking about what he wants to write on his paper

i know! a map to nana and papa's house and a smiley face

miss arella (as nate calls her) aka as nate's future wife. haha. came for a visit today. such fun was had! they slide oh about 1000 times (nate helped her up each time, so cute) then they played with play doh, drew pictures, watched some t.v had a few snacks

i turned around and saw this. so cute!

watching some barney

and yes, natewas in his p.j's until noon. so what! ha!

they had a great time and not 1 fight, argument, hitting, slapping etc...they played very well together. yeah for play dates!

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Posted by mel at 4:06 PM

"MOM!"

"i am going in the elevator"

"good bye!"

he played in the elevator for 45 mins. my house has an elevator, does yours?

haha

then he found his bag and he was going to nana and papa's house

"see you later!"

"it's far, far away!"

then he went into the elevator to take his flying machine to halifax, to get there quicker

the dressing machine

in he goes (check his cute butt out as he enters)

when he's in the tent he stands up and shakes it

then down the slide

"VOILA! all dressed"

yesterday and today after i said it was time to get dressed nate would go into his dressing machine to get dressed. ha

note how trashed the play room is? this is after 3 hrs of playing. i should post a after pic, it's all cleaned up now

the spoon puppet

ok. somewhere nate saw a pic of a spoon puppet and he has hounded me for weeks to make one. we finally did today

sad man

posing with his puppets. silly kid

evaluation. so we had nate's preschool evaluation yesterday. he's quite smart you know :) haha. anyways. he did great. at the end of the session the facilitator was concerned about his speech...i was thinking what? that he doesn't STOP talking? ...haha....but no actually she said he was not pronouncing some words properly so after doing more tests we discovered that he was saying the word right (but also saying the st-sc-to words that 5-7's yr old just learn to master) so what was the problem?

she thought it was a sentence problem. then she said that he sounded like he was bilingual but he is not

then i got it and i snorted out laughing i said his father is swiss and nate has picked up on that accent. then she laughed and agreed that was it but she wants to make sure so we have an appointment tomorrow with a speech therapist to determine if there is a problem/concern etc...i am not worried at all. he's fine

bit i am impressed that we got in the next day for a consult with a speech therapist! yeah for

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Posted by mel at 4:22 PM

reflections

i was asked to speak at a ladies event and the topic is reflections. i will be away so i can't do it (darn it. you's know how i adore PUBLIC speaking!) anyways i have been thinking about this topic and i played the "what would i say if i was doing it" game

last week nate came running into the room to show me his picture. i said "just a sec" (cause you know i was busy) he called me again, and again and again...

"nate! WHAT do you want?" i yelled? with some *cough* minor frustration

he looked away and said "this" as he gave me the picture and walked away

a few days later

"mom! mom! MOM! look at me! i have to show you something!!!!!!!!!!"

"just a sec dude, cause you know i am busy doing something...."

"MOM! LOOK MOM!!!!!"

i turn my head and quickly glanced at the treasure he held in his hand "great job buddy" i said as i went back to doing what ever i was doing

i saw his feet some to me. stop in front of me. he took his hands and put them on my face and said "mom. look at me with your eyes"

i went back to thinking about reflections/mirrors and what i saw i did not like

i took a real hard look at me and i did not like what i saw reflecting back

i can only imagine what nate see's

what does he see when he sees me?

frustration? anger? impatience? hostility? annoyance? disinterest? bored? not caring?

harsh hu?

then and there (after i sucked some holy dirt) i made a choice to watch my face with nate ESP when he is being challenging

what do i want him to see?

i want him to see what god see's when he looks at me

love, adoration, joy at simply calling me, a smile, a hug a kiss, positive encouragement, a soft word, patience, understanding

if god flows through me shouldn't it flow to my son?

i've made a huge change in this area and i saw a change in nate right away

i want nate to see in my face how much i love him, how special he is. i have changed my attitude towards his negative behavior. it's no longer a problem to fix but instead it's a learning time. for him and me

eyes of understanding to respond and see what i am called to do or how god's word translation says "i will have deeper insight and i will know with confidence what to do" eps 1:18

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Posted by mel at 10:43 AM