If you read my other blog you already know the reason I haven't been around much is because I'm in school and it's taking over my life. The summer semesters are quite short so they shove twice the normal amount of work on you and yeah, it's a lot of work.
Anyway Alden is doing great. He signed up for the Summer Reading Club at the local library. If he reads 35 books before the end of July he will get a prize. He is really excited about it and I'm sure he'll reach that goal quite easily. He read 10 books in the first 24 hours of signing up.
He also has to read 30 books for school and also do spelling words. He does his spelling words on the computer because he hates writing. His handwriting has majorly improved over what it was a year ago and lately he's even been writing things voluntarily. He made his own videogames. He had markers & paper and he drew himself & a bunch of his favorite characters and wrote the game titles, consoles, and the rating on them. Then he stuck them in some old DVD cases we had lying around and put them with our other videogames. I love that he's so creative. Creativity and reading are the two things I hoped he would really be passionate about and I feel really lucky that he loves them both so much.
When I finally get done with my evil schoolwork we've been doing fun summer projects. So far we have splatter painted, finger painted, built a fort, had a picnic, played with squirt guns, played in the sprinkler, hula hooped and today we started one of those little crystal growing kits. It's from the dollar store so I have no idea if it will work but it will be neat if it does.
We tried the "glow stick lantern" thing I saw on Pinterest but I think maybe the glow sticks we had kind of sucked because it didn't do much. Maybe you're supposed to use the big ones? I have no idea. We'll try again with the bigger ones and see if that works better.
His new thing is answering questions in a super high pitched fake scream voice which I would call "annoying" but I'll take high pitched screamy talking over no talking any day. We've been there and we don't take anything he says for granted. We cherish every single word, even the smart-ass "whatever!" and "I don't think so!" are more than welcome in this house.
Anyway Alden is doing great. He signed up for the Summer Reading Club at the local library. If he reads 35 books before the end of July he will get a prize. He is really excited about it and I'm sure he'll reach that goal quite easily. He read 10 books in the first 24 hours of signing up.
He also has to read 30 books for school and also do spelling words. He does his spelling words on the computer because he hates writing. His handwriting has majorly improved over what it was a year ago and lately he's even been writing things voluntarily. He made his own videogames. He had markers & paper and he drew himself & a bunch of his favorite characters and wrote the game titles, consoles, and the rating on them. Then he stuck them in some old DVD cases we had lying around and put them with our other videogames. I love that he's so creative. Creativity and reading are the two things I hoped he would really be passionate about and I feel really lucky that he loves them both so much.
When I finally get done with my evil schoolwork we've been doing fun summer projects. So far we have splatter painted, finger painted, built a fort, had a picnic, played with squirt guns, played in the sprinkler, hula hooped and today we started one of those little crystal growing kits. It's from the dollar store so I have no idea if it will work but it will be neat if it does.
We tried the "glow stick lantern" thing I saw on Pinterest but I think maybe the glow sticks we had kind of sucked because it didn't do much. Maybe you're supposed to use the big ones? I have no idea. We'll try again with the bigger ones and see if that works better.
His new thing is answering questions in a super high pitched fake scream voice which I would call "annoying" but I'll take high pitched screamy talking over no talking any day. We've been there and we don't take anything he says for granted. We cherish every single word, even the smart-ass "whatever!" and "I don't think so!" are more than welcome in this house.
