I get a little jolt everytime I look at her, like really look at her, when did she get so grown up?? When did she get so tall and so aware?
We are home educating/unschooling/life learning so no prep for her this year. We are yet to develop a rhythmn to our weeks but I am working on it
Lauren’s reading is really taking off, she is starting to sound words out trying to work out what they are which is awesome. With a little input from me she is really enjoying reading early reader books. She is also enjoying writing, all in uppercase at the moment and her A’s have 3 lines which I LOVE. I’m sure with time she will develop her own uppercase/lowercase writing style and I am not stressed or worried that she is writing “wrong” and I love that she doesn’t have the pressure to write “properly”.
She is a real homebody just like me and is quite content to spend all her days at home, which is something we need to break out of a bit as it makes it too easy for me to avoid social situations. We have regular meetups with friends and also trying to get into the groove of going to various other playgroups/homeschooling meets.
I would like to try and break our weeks down into some sort of routine. Not sure how I am going to achieve this but its on my list of things to work on (with Lauren’s input of course).
She has become a slave to the TV/Computer lately which bothers me so its something I need to address as I too am spending too much on my computer.
Everything isn’t all roses, we both still clash but not nearly as much as we used to. I am really enjoying getting to know her and I keep getting flashes of the young woman she will become.
This is such a challenging age and I know that with Lauren it got worse when she turned 3, I am a little concerned that Anya will be the same. She has a very loud screech and a wicked temper, and then she will throw you with a cheeky grin and the dimples, oh the dimples.
Her vocab is taking off as is her awareness. She seems to have learned her colours which has taken me a little by surprise. With Lauren we did a lot of ‘teaching’ reading books about colours, constantly pointing them out to her but we haven’t done that with Anya and yet she has still learned them… quite telling really!
I am really enjoying watching her relationship with Lauren, they are playing more and more together and it is beautiful to watch, of course they fight but I would be surprised if they didn’t!
She is still a booby girl and I can’t see that changing anytime soon.
Even though she is still my baby girl, she is turning more into a little girl every day, so bittersweet.
When my cycles returned, so did 10kg extra weight.
I eat pretty well so I think the only thing that is going to move this weight is exercise.
I am making it my aim to get serious about exercise and getting fit. Hardly any of my clothes fit and its getting me down.
I want to do my yoga dvd every morning before Anya gets up and for starters do my Zumba dvd every second day.
A latin dance inspired fitness craze. Its bloody hard work and I have only done most of the Basics dvd, which is just introducing the steps!! I felt so unco and unfit but it was fun My body worked bloody hard and judging by the amount I was sweating the weight will hopefully melt away
Up until last week I thought it was ceiling wax … hehe
I have been asked told by a few people that I need to blog, I want to blog but I feel like there is either nothing to say or too much to say and I come up blank.
I have had this post sitting here in the editor for over 24 hours now, I just can’t seem to fill it. I am finding it VERY frustrating. Its like when you go to talk to someone who you haven’t seen for a while and things feel very awkward at first until it starts feeling just like it used to.
Sitting here with a most delicious mocha, listening to Fiona Apple on iTunes, the house is rather untidy (as it always is) but life is good
Lauren is prep-age but is at home as we are home educating, our lives don’t have much structure but we have weekly activities that we try to get to, we sort of just roll along as life takes us.
We now have 5 chickens and only one of them is laying, one is broody and the others are wanting to be dinner I think!
I am still trying to find Me. I really really want to do a Reiki course so will have to make sure I find the money. We are on a mission to be debt free, slow going but I am sure it will be rewarding
Hopefully once this awkward post is published I can get back into the swing of blogging.
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