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The weather was really good this week. Because it was so good, we played outside a lot - many days we went mushroom hunting, and tried to find morels, but we didn't end up finding any yet. Tuesday nature group at the park went long, and Mike got off work a little early, so he met us at the park. Then we decided to pick up fast food on the way to Dimple Dell and hunt morels for the evening. It was a nice evening.
Alison started to attend a water aerobics class this week. She developed Symphysis Pubis Pain this pregnancy for the first time, and all her normal forms of cardio hurt. Water aerobics was recommended by everyone she asked, so she's excited to try it out for a few weeks. Most of the water aerobics moves didn't hurt, which is better than anything else she's tried.
On Friday we tried to go to the OBT and catch a show, however we decided to take the train, and the weather was so crazy that lightning struck the train lines, and the trains were no longer running downtown, so we ended up going back home and watching a movie instead.
Timmy read his first book this week! Alison bought a new reading program as a kind of spur-of-the-moment thing for him. We have a book with stories about the letters that gives them an animal that makes the sound. It worked great for Rea and Sara and Gideon loves it, but Timmy was not retaining more than three or four letters despite saying he really wanted to read and write. This new program uses similar animals and stories, but it comes with songs as well, and after each letter he gets a little cardboard figure of the letter and animal as a "prize" for the lesson. And it comes with fifty books which he gets to keep as his own after he learns to read each one. He absolutely loves it! He will totally play with the little cardboard animals all day and it helps him remember his letters so much better. And he was ecstatic about his first book; he's been counting down the days until he read it, and after he read it he kept rereading it every hour or two for two days. (It's a book with four words, with a total of seven different letters in the whole thing.) So this program is totally working for him. It's great! He's very excited to move on to his second book this week.
Mike and the kids all achieved goals while Alison was sick with this pregnancy, so we had a bunch of goal day parties stacked up. We ended up deciding to make a mass goal day dinner on Saturday. Everyone picked something they wanted. Mike ended up having mushroom quiche for breakfast/lunch, and for dinner we had Chinese food (frozen chicken and sauce and extra stir-fry vegetables) and garlic bread and fruit salad and oatmeal raisin cookies with ice cream. It was very delicious. Yay for everyone who achieved goals!
Mike has been working on a new game recently which he is really enjoying. It is based on the works of Carl Chudyk - basically an 18 card version of Glory to Rome. He is looking forward to showing it off during BGDG this upcoming week.
Alison started to attend a water aerobics class this week. She developed Symphysis Pubis Pain this pregnancy for the first time, and all her normal forms of cardio hurt. Water aerobics was recommended by everyone she asked, so she's excited to try it out for a few weeks. Most of the water aerobics moves didn't hurt, which is better than anything else she's tried.
On Friday we tried to go to the OBT and catch a show, however we decided to take the train, and the weather was so crazy that lightning struck the train lines, and the trains were no longer running downtown, so we ended up going back home and watching a movie instead.
Timmy read his first book this week! Alison bought a new reading program as a kind of spur-of-the-moment thing for him. We have a book with stories about the letters that gives them an animal that makes the sound. It worked great for Rea and Sara and Gideon loves it, but Timmy was not retaining more than three or four letters despite saying he really wanted to read and write. This new program uses similar animals and stories, but it comes with songs as well, and after each letter he gets a little cardboard figure of the letter and animal as a "prize" for the lesson. And it comes with fifty books which he gets to keep as his own after he learns to read each one. He absolutely loves it! He will totally play with the little cardboard animals all day and it helps him remember his letters so much better. And he was ecstatic about his first book; he's been counting down the days until he read it, and after he read it he kept rereading it every hour or two for two days. (It's a book with four words, with a total of seven different letters in the whole thing.) So this program is totally working for him. It's great! He's very excited to move on to his second book this week.
Mike and the kids all achieved goals while Alison was sick with this pregnancy, so we had a bunch of goal day parties stacked up. We ended up deciding to make a mass goal day dinner on Saturday. Everyone picked something they wanted. Mike ended up having mushroom quiche for breakfast/lunch, and for dinner we had Chinese food (frozen chicken and sauce and extra stir-fry vegetables) and garlic bread and fruit salad and oatmeal raisin cookies with ice cream. It was very delicious. Yay for everyone who achieved goals!
Mike has been working on a new game recently which he is really enjoying. It is based on the works of Carl Chudyk - basically an 18 card version of Glory to Rome. He is looking forward to showing it off during BGDG this upcoming week.
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