Just Thankful

Life sure is busy. . .I don't see how people with more than 3 children or mothers who work can stay sane. I can hardly keep up with everything these days it feels like there is constantly something that has to be done. I guess such is life right?!?!
I am blessed and I know that I don't want to come off whiny at all! I am just babbling mostly. :) LOL
Caylea is doing great with her school she has moved on to her I can read readers. She is doing wonderfully and I just love listening to her reading to me :) Her writing has improved so much and she doesn't even fight me on doing it at all anymore. She is doing great with her phonics workbook she loves the part where you fill in the blank to make and word and then draw and color the pictures. She is doing great in math also she is working on simple addition, telling time and money. She has got counting by 10's down but 5's we are still working on (we just started it last week). We got the play money out today and messed with it for a while she told me that it was fun and she wants to do it again tomorrow :) We talked about how many pennies it takes to make a quarter, nickle and dime and so on up to a quarter. Her least favorite part of school I have got to say is marking the vowels although she does it very well she just doesn't enjoy doing it like she enjoys the other things. Caylea also started a new light brigade class(the wed. night children's program at our church) she is in glimmers II so she has new teachers and just a new setting. Glimmers I is basically 3 and 4 year olds (up until they start kindergarten) Glimmers II is K-2nd grade so that in itself makes the class different. Which I think is really good for Caylea. The only thing she is having a hard time with is game time for some reason. She has not wanted to play the games the last 2 weeks. I am not sure why I do know that I was like this as a child and it hurts my heart to see this coming out in her and I don't like it. I am not sure I know why I was like this and I sure don't know why she is like this. All I do know is that I don't want her to sit out or cry every week.
Carolina has started Light Brigade she is in Glimmers I this year. She missed last week b/c she was sick. So last night was her first night. This is the first class she has been in that Caylea wasn't with her so I was a little worried about her. She seems to have done really well as long as she couldn't see me. I think that she and her cousin Elijah are going to find some trouble occasionally though. Last night before class started somehow they got away from their class without their teachers realizing it and went into the JV class and broke a light bulb and colored on the wall with markers. Thankfully they weren't hurt. I got onto her and told her she had to stay with her class I am hoping she doesn't escape again as this is one of my worst fears when I leave my children in someone else's care that they will get away and get seriously hurt or get outside and get lost (which they were really close to being outside last night~I know that God was watching over them and kept them safe though). Carolina did really great though all things considered she looked like she really had a lot of fun! She has been asking to do her "school work" when I am working with Caylea so I thought I would try the "teach your child to read in 100 easy lessons" with her and see how she does. She is not 3 yet so I am not expecting too much. The only reason we are giving it a shot is b/c she knows all her letters and their sounds and has for a year or more so giving it a try won't hurt right?!?! We did our lesson 1 tonight and she did great with all that was asked of her :)
Caden my little bubba boy besides his medical issues that I have been dealing with has finally decided the last two days that he wants to walk. He just holds my finger or my shirt and we walk around the house for a long time at a time and he is totally content doing so (in fact he get's mad if I refuse to go where he wants). He also has decided standing by himself is pretty fun too! My little boy is so cautious I don't think I am going to have to worry too much about him getting hurt. If he falls once he doesn't want to do it again. I am pretty sure that is what is taking him so long to decide that walking will be fun :) He still lacks the confidence to do it by himself but when he is holding my finger or shirt he is balancing himself really good so I think it is defiantly something that is right around the corner as his confidence builds :) Caden is saying more words now he says mom, dad, hi, bye, more, here, bite, sizzy, my favorite is UH-OH. . .there are more I just can't think of them right now :)
Well for those that don't know we are defiantly not moving to corpus at this time. Anthony has another opportunity coming up soon with his company. This will get him the promotion he is wanting without having to move. I know that God knows even though we were willing to follow Him where ever He wanted us to go that staying in Oklahoma was what was best for our family :) I am thankful for that!!!!!
I am such a lucky lady in the morning I am getting to watch my wonderful nephew and going to a friends house to hang out and let the kids play. They have so much fun going over there (and their auntie's house's too) we try to make it for a play date at least once a week :) Soon we will be adding a library trip in there every week for new books for my little lady to read to me :)