This week in the Atchley home 03/17-03/23
Still struggling with this darn cold I go to the doctor to get drugs. Phoebe goes the next day and seems to be getting over an ear infection. While there the nurse discovers Sophia has a fever so she gets checked in as well. Turns out she also has sores in her mouth--yay for random viruses! By the end of the week the girls are well, but I still have remnants of snot in my sinuses and am just about ready to shove a vacuum hose up my nose!
Sophia struggles with the letters S, P, F, and R. Needless to say her name has been difficult for her to say. I occasionally find myself making fun of her and her struggles with speech and learning to talk. She says "ham" like "haim". So I said back to her the other day "Cory Haim?" And with perfect pronunciation she comes back with "Cory Haim!" BJ laughs and I join in. What more could I do?
My constant battle with Sophia at her Granny and Grandad's house is getting into the litter box, cat food, cat water, and the toilet. All very nasty and all she could potentially get sick from. Two weeks ago she was found sitting in the cat box tossing out poop and kitty litter. My sister Jennifer found her and I think almost had a stroke. She was found this week once again in the cat box. My dad asked what her fascination could possibly be--my theory--it's just like a small sandbox. Now this week she was found eating dry cat food. Her response? "Yum!" Will she ever learn?
We have often said Sophia has probably had her picture taken far too much. While taking a picture of her this week, with no help from me, she smiles real big and says "Cheese!"
The Atchley's are all off this week for Spring Break. We spend Friday cleaning out our garage to make room for more furniture to come from BJ's grandpa's house in Oklahoma. We spend Saturday cleaning out the Atchley's garage for the same purpose. Sophia at least got to dye Easter eggs. Not very successfully I must admit. She enjoyed dropping them in too hard or on top of another one so we ended up with quite a few cracked eggs. We didn't mind since this is her first time and she enjoyed herself regardless.
The Atchley's joined us at church for Easter Sunday. BJ and I were excited thinking we had other people to be able to entertain Sophia and we could actually enjoy the talks. Nope. She was only entertained by Mike and Catey for about 15 minutes before she was all over us and wouldn't leave us alone.
I make a delicious Easter dinner and have the Atchley's over to enjoy it with us. Sophia has her egg hunt after dinner and is very excited to find eggs in the yard. We only do plastic eggs and I put jellybeans inside. Once all the eggs are gathered we bring them inside to inspect the 'loot'. I am busy in the kitchen so Catey helps Sophia to eat quite a bit of candy in the meantime.
We have been working on counting to 10 with Sophia for several weeks now. On Sunday while she was walking down the pew to us she walked by and counted everyone. It was only to five since that's all there was, but she did it correctly and without prompting from us so BJ and I were really excited. We are enjoying the progress.
We started having Sophia say "sorry" to Phoebe when she hits her or makes her cry. She picked up on it right away and I have been able to get her to apologize to her sister several times, but now she uses sorry for so many things. She says it if she bumps herself, or drops something, or any little thing she might see as an oops. As sweet as that is we are trying to focus her back on really only saying it if she hurts someone. She can be so sweet.
Sophia struggles with the letters S, P, F, and R. Needless to say her name has been difficult for her to say. I occasionally find myself making fun of her and her struggles with speech and learning to talk. She says "ham" like "haim". So I said back to her the other day "Cory Haim?" And with perfect pronunciation she comes back with "Cory Haim!" BJ laughs and I join in. What more could I do?
My constant battle with Sophia at her Granny and Grandad's house is getting into the litter box, cat food, cat water, and the toilet. All very nasty and all she could potentially get sick from. Two weeks ago she was found sitting in the cat box tossing out poop and kitty litter. My sister Jennifer found her and I think almost had a stroke. She was found this week once again in the cat box. My dad asked what her fascination could possibly be--my theory--it's just like a small sandbox. Now this week she was found eating dry cat food. Her response? "Yum!" Will she ever learn?
We have often said Sophia has probably had her picture taken far too much. While taking a picture of her this week, with no help from me, she smiles real big and says "Cheese!"
The Atchley's are all off this week for Spring Break. We spend Friday cleaning out our garage to make room for more furniture to come from BJ's grandpa's house in Oklahoma. We spend Saturday cleaning out the Atchley's garage for the same purpose. Sophia at least got to dye Easter eggs. Not very successfully I must admit. She enjoyed dropping them in too hard or on top of another one so we ended up with quite a few cracked eggs. We didn't mind since this is her first time and she enjoyed herself regardless.
The Atchley's joined us at church for Easter Sunday. BJ and I were excited thinking we had other people to be able to entertain Sophia and we could actually enjoy the talks. Nope. She was only entertained by Mike and Catey for about 15 minutes before she was all over us and wouldn't leave us alone.
I make a delicious Easter dinner and have the Atchley's over to enjoy it with us. Sophia has her egg hunt after dinner and is very excited to find eggs in the yard. We only do plastic eggs and I put jellybeans inside. Once all the eggs are gathered we bring them inside to inspect the 'loot'. I am busy in the kitchen so Catey helps Sophia to eat quite a bit of candy in the meantime.
We have been working on counting to 10 with Sophia for several weeks now. On Sunday while she was walking down the pew to us she walked by and counted everyone. It was only to five since that's all there was, but she did it correctly and without prompting from us so BJ and I were really excited. We are enjoying the progress.
We started having Sophia say "sorry" to Phoebe when she hits her or makes her cry. She picked up on it right away and I have been able to get her to apologize to her sister several times, but now she uses sorry for so many things. She says it if she bumps herself, or drops something, or any little thing she might see as an oops. As sweet as that is we are trying to focus her back on really only saying it if she hurts someone. She can be so sweet.
Counting! How exciting! I know how fun it is when your child picks up on something you've been working on.
ReplyDeleteWe're doing letters with Yoroko and she knows most of them. Struggling with "R" so we're making it into the "pirate letter"
and hoping that gives her a hook to hang it on and remember it. I'm hoping she'll learn to read in the next year. Am I
ambitious for my child? Yes! Good luck with the cold- hope you get over it soon. We're fighting one off here, too,
but it's not as bad as yours.