Schedule week

I typed up a schedule and showed the kids what is expected of all of us everyday. Anthony always asks what's next on the list. I love it because a schedule always kept my class when I was teaching in order. Hee hee we'll see how it works with a preschooler, toddler and infant. Louie turned 8 weeks this week he is going for his first set of shots next week. I recorded Oprah's season opener which had the Black Eyed Peas singing "Tonights going to be a good night" Louie loves to dance with me to that song in the living room. I get scared that maybe I'm shaking him too much when we dance but he smiles and coos. Ahhhh and he doesn't think I'm weird yet. Avabelle went to dance this week we bought her a pink leotard which she loves to dance around the house. I saved a taping of a chorographed dance on the Ellen show and Ava could almost do the the whole dance...well a 2-year-old version of it. She's not interested in taking a nap by me on the couch anymore. She decided she wanted to take a nap on her own matress upstairs. I thought she would never leave her brother alone but 2 days in a row she did it and has slept a lot longer. Anthony had a great week I started to teach him how to read last year a little bit but have started teaching him again and he's doing amazing. He's had his phonics down for some time but is doing a great job reading beginner books. I try not to pick him up and twirl him around but I can't help to get super excited for him. He's such a great kid. We'll contiue working on decoding. I never force him he just loves to read. He's been asking all week for meatballs(which we've never had) so I finally made him some with cheese in the middle of them. He was really happy especially because I told him that there was a surprise in the middle of the meatball. I think he really thought a car would be in the middle. He said "Mama where is my surprise?" I said it was the the cheese cube in the middle. He got super excited and said "Oh I love cheese." I said I know you do that's why I made them special for you and now we'll call them Runk Runk meatballs. He liked that but of course was only impressed for a minute. Could he at least be a little bit more excited they took me a long time to make :-) Part of their schedule everyday is to make their beds well Anthony really liked doing this he even made Ava's a couple days. .I told Ava this morning let's go make your bed and she told me "No thank you, Anthony will make it." I told her no she had to make her bed herself. She was happy with herself once she did it. This was the last week of summer and I'm going to miss it. The kids love playing outside and I love sitting on the patio with the baby so he can absorb some vitamin D. Finally, last but not least I made Tony go get a physical. I scheduled his flu shot but figured he might as well get the works. He went after work one day and everything seems to be fine. I hope so because he keeps us all together. He decided to do a photo shoot in the dining room with the kids. It's a lot of work organizing the kids but it's nice to see the pictures after.