reading and cleaning

so intro'd nate into the world of reading. he's really picking up on it. i found this cool print out of 2 letter words and as i read them in a book, i would stop and have nate find them and repeat what the word says. he picked up on it right quick and soon he was finding them on his own

discovered the word by. he's not reading! just starting the basics and because i've never taught someone how to read before we are both learning together. today he was totally into it and that helped SO much. esp with me feeling so icky and gross* sigh*

then after reading i told him he could have a short video. as i pulled the couch out i found a box of smarties 3/4 gone. i knew i lost it somewhere. ha. anyways, nate fessed right up to taking it from the top of my fire place 4 days ago and he would have a hand full every morning for the last 4 days. (his words!)

so i made him clean up the trashed playroom with NO talking, crying, yelling or complaining. then quietly go to his room and wait until i get there...

i came back to this!

a SPOTLESS playroom! i was stunned!

then i went to get him

and found him here. clearly not his room

i asked him why he was not in his room and he said "i wanted to wait here, it's more of a punishment, i can;t play with anything"

point taken

then i went into his room

sigh. trashed. i had him clean it up and came back to this

seriously! i was impressed

so i took him out to tim's. ha. i figured her earned a reward (me too!)

waiting in the drive though

and that was our morning, well not entirely. this am was dentist day. sigh. i loath the dentist. nate did awesome! very impressive

and now we brace ourselves for this snow storm that is on it's way (is it wrong that i hope it comes and school is cancelled tomorrow? selfish reasons...i don't wanna go to preschool...ha!)

Posted by mel at 2:59 PM