Today was a good day.
The boys davened + tehilim, cleaned their room, and did some multiplication and addtion
Tiferes practiced her sight words, and yonason and I read some books on the couch- all while Adara was sleeping
During that time, I managed to make a trifle and a peach cake
at 2, we met tatty at the carnegie library in oakland, and hung around their for about an hour.
we came home a bit after 3, and after I made challah dough with Tiferes, we headed outside for a good swim. The kids had a blast, so happy that I went with the Intex pool from target.com for $30. everyone had a blast- tonight I ordered a floaty tube for Adara, since the pool when even half way filled is just too much water for her. cant wait till it comes and she can float around!
5:30- dinner
6:30- poor yonason asked me to put him to bed. he was out in five minutes
7:00- adara to bed
7:25- Tiferes to bed
7:30-went to visit a friend who just had a baby
8:15-went to basketball
9:45- shaped and baked the challah, unloaded dishwasher, cleaned up kitchen
ZONKED!
Thursday, June 28, 2012
Wednesday, June 27, 2012
Mommy Camp Day #6
Today was HARD to say the least, here's why:
For some odd reason all of my kids took forever in falling asleep last night, which equaled tired and low energy children today. hmph!
Dovid and Tiferes went to shul with hubby, while Yonason and I did puzzles, Yomin davened and Adara walked around shlupping toys and pulling books off the shelf. whatever-it keeps her busy
10:00- adara went for a nap
sight words with Tiferes- she is getting good. I may introduce the words "mat" and "cat" tomorrow. those will be her first three-letter-words, I think she is ready
multiplication with Dovid. At 11:00, because of their great behavior I let them watch thomas the tank engine which was of little interest to the older boys, and they eventually found their own things to do. It was a low key morning as far as activities.
12:00- did a load of laundry, since Sunday (my usual day of laundry) we are going to baltimore for two days, I wanted to keep the heaps to a minimum, and just throw one last load in saturday night so as not to come home to more laundry
1:00- to the aviary. yes, the kids were slightly entertained as they love to discover new species of birds, however, I was severely dissapointed that it was TINY, and that $57 for the four kids and me to get in was a big rip off. loving that I didnt' get the membership, we wont be going back. at 2, yes 2 ocklock, we were done there- even after seeing some of the exhibits twice. So I told the kids we would have a water day in the front yard.
2:30- filled up the baby pool as the new pool wasn't pumped up yet, and the kids had fun for about 45 minutes. The older two got bored and got dresseed and went inside, while the younger three were happy to be filling up buckets of water and enjoyed getting sprayed by the hose.
4:00- made another peach cake with tiferes
The rest of the time till hubby walked in at 5:15 was just low-key reading on the couch, and cuddle time. everyone was tired.
5:30- went for a run, didn't quite make the 8k that I did on Monday night, partly because my limbs are extremely sore from that run, and also it is much hotter today, which winded me earlier. But I did run over 5k, which is great for a hard day like today
For some odd reason all of my kids took forever in falling asleep last night, which equaled tired and low energy children today. hmph!
Dovid and Tiferes went to shul with hubby, while Yonason and I did puzzles, Yomin davened and Adara walked around shlupping toys and pulling books off the shelf. whatever-it keeps her busy
10:00- adara went for a nap
sight words with Tiferes- she is getting good. I may introduce the words "mat" and "cat" tomorrow. those will be her first three-letter-words, I think she is ready
multiplication with Dovid. At 11:00, because of their great behavior I let them watch thomas the tank engine which was of little interest to the older boys, and they eventually found their own things to do. It was a low key morning as far as activities.
12:00- did a load of laundry, since Sunday (my usual day of laundry) we are going to baltimore for two days, I wanted to keep the heaps to a minimum, and just throw one last load in saturday night so as not to come home to more laundry
1:00- to the aviary. yes, the kids were slightly entertained as they love to discover new species of birds, however, I was severely dissapointed that it was TINY, and that $57 for the four kids and me to get in was a big rip off. loving that I didnt' get the membership, we wont be going back. at 2, yes 2 ocklock, we were done there- even after seeing some of the exhibits twice. So I told the kids we would have a water day in the front yard.
2:30- filled up the baby pool as the new pool wasn't pumped up yet, and the kids had fun for about 45 minutes. The older two got bored and got dresseed and went inside, while the younger three were happy to be filling up buckets of water and enjoyed getting sprayed by the hose.
4:00- made another peach cake with tiferes
The rest of the time till hubby walked in at 5:15 was just low-key reading on the couch, and cuddle time. everyone was tired.
5:30- went for a run, didn't quite make the 8k that I did on Monday night, partly because my limbs are extremely sore from that run, and also it is much hotter today, which winded me earlier. But I did run over 5k, which is great for a hard day like today
Monday, June 25, 2012
Mommy Camp Day #4
Monday, June 25th
Today was a fun but exhausting day!
First, I wanted to get to Marshalls early to return a shirt that I purchased yesterday that was damaged. So we trekked to the waterfront early, and spent all of 3 minutes in the store, finding a duplicate of the shirt and doing the switch.
at 10:30, after Adara went for a nap, I did mommy school with the kids. Dovid & Yomin had multiplication and addition/subtraction sheets, and Tiferes got one new sight word, so 9 total- she knows 8 by sight and sound!!!
12:00- prepared lunch and a bag of snacks for the outings, and sent the kids out to play and water the tomatoes, peppers and flowers
1:00- woke the baby up and fed her, 1:30- on our way to chuck e cheese!
2:00-3:15- chuck e cheese- everyone had a fun time, something for everyone
3:30-4:00- Barnes N noble- what a great trip/idea- everyone found a great new book: Dovid- Treasure Island, Yomin- a new comic book, Tiferes- Thomas the Tank engine, Yonason- a fire engine shaped book with wheels- really cute
4:30- everyone settled down and read, colored, played toys- everyone was happy to be home
5:30- dinner, and yehuda came in exactly at 6!
7- bed time for 3 younger, ran 8k at schenley oval and now paying some bills, planning specifics of next week's mommy camp!
Today was a fun but exhausting day!
First, I wanted to get to Marshalls early to return a shirt that I purchased yesterday that was damaged. So we trekked to the waterfront early, and spent all of 3 minutes in the store, finding a duplicate of the shirt and doing the switch.
at 10:30, after Adara went for a nap, I did mommy school with the kids. Dovid & Yomin had multiplication and addition/subtraction sheets, and Tiferes got one new sight word, so 9 total- she knows 8 by sight and sound!!!
12:00- prepared lunch and a bag of snacks for the outings, and sent the kids out to play and water the tomatoes, peppers and flowers
1:00- woke the baby up and fed her, 1:30- on our way to chuck e cheese!
2:00-3:15- chuck e cheese- everyone had a fun time, something for everyone
3:30-4:00- Barnes N noble- what a great trip/idea- everyone found a great new book: Dovid- Treasure Island, Yomin- a new comic book, Tiferes- Thomas the Tank engine, Yonason- a fire engine shaped book with wheels- really cute
4:30- everyone settled down and read, colored, played toys- everyone was happy to be home
5:30- dinner, and yehuda came in exactly at 6!
7- bed time for 3 younger, ran 8k at schenley oval and now paying some bills, planning specifics of next week's mommy camp!
Thursday, June 21, 2012
Mommy camp, Day #2
Thursday, June 21, 2012
Today was a tough one due to the heat. Everyone was edgy and cranky. Nevertheless, we packed up and went to the Childrens Museum from 1:45-4, didn't get back till close to 4:45.
Schedule:
Came downstairs at 8:30
Breakfast
9:30- Boys davened
playtime until 10:30
10:30-adara goes for a nap and I introduce the kids to Mommy's Classroom. I prepared four sets of "homework" for the kids including multiplication for dovid, two digit addition with carrying over for Yomin, basic addition problems for Tiferes, and match the A'B'C letters for yonason. The kids loved it and begged for more when they completed the ones I made. About to prepare for tomorrow. It is so much fun and the kids loved it. We started a points system for great marks that they can cash in for prizes, nosh or money.
12:00- made pancakes and fed lunch, packed up for museum
1;15- woke up the baby, fed her lunch and at 1:45 we were on our way
5:00- the kids were SO tired and hungry, we had an earlier dinner, baths and bed
7:15- did some food shopping
8:15-9:30- basketball!
favorite part of the day
Dovid- "the water table with mendel gray"
Yomin "Making skateboards with the magnetic pieces"
Tiferes "The parachute"
Yonason "I like the science center better"
Today was a tough one due to the heat. Everyone was edgy and cranky. Nevertheless, we packed up and went to the Childrens Museum from 1:45-4, didn't get back till close to 4:45.
Schedule:
Came downstairs at 8:30
Breakfast
9:30- Boys davened
playtime until 10:30
10:30-adara goes for a nap and I introduce the kids to Mommy's Classroom. I prepared four sets of "homework" for the kids including multiplication for dovid, two digit addition with carrying over for Yomin, basic addition problems for Tiferes, and match the A'B'C letters for yonason. The kids loved it and begged for more when they completed the ones I made. About to prepare for tomorrow. It is so much fun and the kids loved it. We started a points system for great marks that they can cash in for prizes, nosh or money.
12:00- made pancakes and fed lunch, packed up for museum
1;15- woke up the baby, fed her lunch and at 1:45 we were on our way
5:00- the kids were SO tired and hungry, we had an earlier dinner, baths and bed
7:15- did some food shopping
8:15-9:30- basketball!
favorite part of the day
Dovid- "the water table with mendel gray"
Yomin "Making skateboards with the magnetic pieces"
Tiferes "The parachute"
Yonason "I like the science center better"
Wednesday, June 20, 2012
First day of mommy camp
Wednesday, June 19, 2012
Today the boys had school until 12. The following was our schedule. It worked perfectly:
12:15-1:00- everyone ate lunch, I packed some healthy snacks, and cleaned up the little mess that had accumalated since wake-up time
1:00-4:00- Science Center! The kids had so much fun. This is what they had to say:
Dovid-"My favorite part was the submarine because it was for older people"
Yomin- "My favorite part was the water"
Tiferes- "The water table with the balls"
4:00-4:20- Grocery shopping- I decided to grab the few things that I need for shabbos, and will make a menu for the week on sunday and go shopping alone. I let the kids pick a treat to celebrate the first day of summer
4:30-5:30- Made and gave dinner
6:30-story time on the couch
7:00-bed for three little ones
7:30-8:05- ran at the track
8:15-8:30-watered the tomatoes, peppers, strawberries and flowers
8:30-9:00- washed all dishes, put away, swept the kitchen floor and made chocolate milk bottles and sippy cups for the a.m.
9:00- put older kids to bed, up way too late, even for a non-school night. hope to get them in earlier tomorrow
All in all a great day!
Today the boys had school until 12. The following was our schedule. It worked perfectly:
12:15-1:00- everyone ate lunch, I packed some healthy snacks, and cleaned up the little mess that had accumalated since wake-up time
1:00-4:00- Science Center! The kids had so much fun. This is what they had to say:
Dovid-"My favorite part was the submarine because it was for older people"
Yomin- "My favorite part was the water"
Tiferes- "The water table with the balls"
4:00-4:20- Grocery shopping- I decided to grab the few things that I need for shabbos, and will make a menu for the week on sunday and go shopping alone. I let the kids pick a treat to celebrate the first day of summer
4:30-5:30- Made and gave dinner
6:30-story time on the couch
7:00-bed for three little ones
7:30-8:05- ran at the track
8:15-8:30-watered the tomatoes, peppers, strawberries and flowers
8:30-9:00- washed all dishes, put away, swept the kitchen floor and made chocolate milk bottles and sippy cups for the a.m.
9:00- put older kids to bed, up way too late, even for a non-school night. hope to get them in earlier tomorrow
All in all a great day!
Thursday, June 7, 2012
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