This week we have continued to keep up with keeping the girls active with different Christmas festivities. My husband is now home at night during the week but is still working a part time job on the weekends. It was so nice to have him home this past week. We spent most of our evenings driving around town looking at various Christmas lights. A local Skate place has lights professionally synced with music on a local radio station. This has been a hit with both of the girls and is such a fun free activity.
We also began working on Christmas cards and have decided that we will just be passing them out at the various family Christmas' we attend. K was a big helper and was trying to remember everyone in our families that should get a card. It is so good to hear her start to understand different relationships within our family.
Earlier in the week R had an appointment with the pediatrician. A little bit of background regarding R is that she has been diagnosed with Milk/Soy Protein Intolerance and reflux. She has had a long journey with feeding and didn't even have her first table food until 6 months ago. At her last GI specialist appointment the doctor informed us that she has not been growing or gaining weight in the past three months. She put R on a powder, called DuoCal, which adds extra calories to foods/drinks in hopes that she would start sleeping through the night and ultimately gain weight. We continued adding new foods and gave her the DuoCal three times per day.
At our follow up we found out that R has gained a total of 8 ounces in one month and has finally grown 1/4 of an inch. I never thought I could be so happy about 8 ounces or a 1/4 inch. We are going to continue with DuoCal 4 times per day and see if there is even more weight gain and growth between now and when we see the Specialist in January.
We also have begun a few things to prepare for homeschooling. First, we subscribed to www.abcmouse.com and K has begun to explore the website and completed her first lesson about the letter A. I am especially impressed with this website because I can customize both girls' path of learning and it can be accessed on the Kindle which seems to be easier for K. R has not yet had a chance to try it out, but I don't think she is ready to sit down and focus on the lessons and also think some of them may be a bit above her academic level. I plan to use some of the activities for both girls, especially the songs and picture cards.
Secondly, we purchased Scholastic's BOB books from Books-A-Million, but they are also available online at :http://www.scholastic.com/parents/bob_books/series/my_first/index.htm. We purchased the Pre-Reading Skills set, which contains 12 books for $16.99. This series introduces patterns and story sequencing. We plan to use this set for both K and R, even though K has a basic understanding for these concepts. We also purchased the Alphabet book set, which also contains 12 books for $16.99. These books each focus on 2-3 letter and contain mostly words with these beginning sounds. We will use these books to focus on specific beginning sounds as we begin our version of Letter of the Week and these books will mainly be used for K.
On a final note, I have officially made it to my 23rd week of this pregnancy and Baby S seems to be doing as good as ever. I think we have ourselves another little gymnast, as she spends most of her day flipping, kicking and punching. She definitely is an active little girl, hopefully she mellows out a bit before she is born! I don't know if I will be able to handle another little walker at 8 months old!
Happy weekend everyone!
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