Monsters All!

It was just one of those days.

Adam decided to find the one red marker in the house that isn't washable. It wasn't a Sharpie, thankfully, but it definitely wasn't washable. He then decided to pretend he was putting lipstick and rouge on. He had fire-engine red lips for most of the day. He scrubbed and scrubbed his cheeks, and his poor pimply cheeks got rather irritated. Finally right before leaving for church tonight he got it all off. Not only was it on his cheeks and lips, but he also took the cap which had ink on it, and put it on his nose. So, there were red circles all over his nose too. It made it rather hard to teach him math and reading when he looked so clown-like. At least it came off before it was time to leave the front door though.

Adam is sounding out words all over the place and is blowing us away with how easily he is sounding things out. He can read words like "said," "little," "this," "was," "she," etc. I should get up and get a copy of the story he read today, but I'm too lazy. Trust me, he's doing great!

Whereas Adam's lipstick was fake, Aleksa had an episode with some Real make-up today. Hers was a cake of lipgloss/stick turned upside-down onto the carpet and then smoooooshed into the fibers. It's still a little pink, but this is the same carpet that Adam squirt-gunned the red ink onto the floor last summer, so undoubtedly this carpet is going to need replacing before we sell our house. We're gonna have to replace a TON of things around here before we sell this place. I sure hope we don't have to move anytime soon! Oy.

Liana was just Liana. In other words, instead of doing what she was asked right away, she took the scenic route any possible way she could. She's our strong-willed one. After church I was mortified to see her banging wildly on the grand piano in the sanctuary and the pianist trying to shoo her off. She knows better. *sigh*

Aside from all that, it was a pretty good day. Did I mention that Aleksa can draw "A's"? I probably did, but I don't remember. That's enormous news at the Fisher house and I've been on Cloud 9 for days. She can also say the sounds of several letters. (Thanks to the Leap Frog Letter Factory dvd!) Today I caught her drawing pictures at the kitchen table without being cooerced! It was a monster, she said. Complete with eyes, ears, nose, etc. It's like now that she knows she can "make" something with that crayon or marker, she's more curious and excited about using them. Yay!

Also, John and I noticed tonight that Aleksa can say her r's without rolling them. Not 100% of the time, but she does it right quite often now. She was the only one who could roll them to start with. Adam says his "r's" right too a lot of the time. He didn't roll them before, but he wasn't saying them correctly either. Not really sure how to explain what he was doing before.

Headed for bed. Today's stresses have rung me out.