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08/03/2005 Archived Entry: "the best of intentions"

I had planned to clean the playroom this evening, including the closet, but we had a rough evening at hula. A visiting Kumu took over the class and she's exactly the type of instructor that Tabitha does not care to have as an instructor. As soon as one of the other moms filled me in on what she's like, I knew it would not go well for my Tabi and I was right. She came out in tears, as I assumed. Not to mention class started late and ended even later and it was a physically demanding class. All of that coupled together and I decided to let Tabitha stay up a bit later than usual in order to decompress. Popcorn did wonders for her outlook.

So both kids are in bed, but I haven't had dinner yet. The popcorn just didn't cut it for me :) I'm just going to stir-fry some left over rice and maybe add some garlic, mushrooms and egg. Should take all of five minutes. But, no playroom tonight. I really need and want to get to it.

Miss Daisy has settled into a bit of a routine, with a little help from us. Not what you're thinking though. She was sleeping thirty minutes at a time roughly six times a day. Then her night sleeping went to hell. Then I remembered when Tabitha was exactly the same way with naps. The advice I received at the time was to change her bottle nipples into the medium flow instead of slow flow because she would exert so much effort in trying to eat that she'd fall asleep. But she wouldn't be full and would then wake up. But she'd be tired. See the cycle? I was pretty sure this was the case with Daisy but her bottles don't have a medium flow, only fast so I waited until I thought she could handle it. That was a week ago. Now she takes two naps a day at 1 1/2 hours each and a third nap of some length (that's usually in the car) and her sleeping at night has improved dramatically. Still not the 9 or 10 hours we used to get, but better than it was two weeks ago. Anyway, like I said, she has settled into more of a routine so lessons are going to be much easier from now on. We jumped back into them today after a two week break. Tabitha has completed all the lower case letters in cursive. She has two days of review and then she gets to the long-awaited upper case letters. Math was math, nothing exciting (for her anyway, personally, I've always loved math, but she's Chris's kid. She can do it just fine, she's just not fond of it like I am). In Science, we finished up the chapter on the Solar System in general and will start the next chapter tomorrow which is the planets. Lessons are always rounded out with some grammar, spelling and logic. I cannot wait to start our world history, but it's fairly indepth and I wanted to make sure we would have the time. With Daisy so nicely cooperating, I think we'll be able to start that sometime soon.

Now, on to my fried rice, then talking with Chris on the phone while he drives home, then we'll settle in with the new Kathy Griffin shows :)