Sick

Well I missed my Friday deadline...by a long shot! It was a week filled with sickness so I decided to cut my self some slack. It is not like I have any actual readers anyway. Ha! Just my husband and he knows whats up. Well I will be back on track this week and to make it up I will just add a week on the end I think. I thought I would try to do two this week, but I am so behind on everything, that I don't want to push my luck.

Oops!

Tantrum was actually last weeks story but it must not have posted. This weeks story I will post tomorrow.

General Observations

My oldest is really starting to get excited about the stories. Sometimes it is hard to tell if she is really interested in them or listening to them, but then she will suddenly remember some small detail that will let me know that she did in fact pay attention. For instance, she was looking at the blog page with me and asked me to go back over some of the stories, before I reread them I asked her what she remembered about them and she pointed to the "Ugly Princess," and said that she did not think it was nice of her to throw her shoe at the boy. What a funny part to remember!

She seems genuinely excited when I tell her that I have a new story for her, and she likes that they are written for her and her sister. The illustration for "Sisters" is a painting of two dolls I made for the girls at Christmas that represent them, and she recognised that immediately and was pretty excited that it was her an her sister. Here are some pictures of the dolls.

Comments on "The Ugly Princess"

Today was a snow day so we did not have school, so I decided to go ahead and tell the story during the day instead of at bedtime because the girls were bored. I think I should have waited though. Goldie, my oldest seemed very distracted. She was eager to see the picture I painted to go with the story, but was less interested in the actual story. She did listen, but it just did not hold her attention as I would have liked. After I told the story I asked her what she thought and she said that she did not like it, but then she started saying all sorts of unrelated things when I asked her why. Later she told me that she did like the story. I asked her what she liked and she told me that she liked that the Princess changed and became nice. I asked her what she didn't like and she said that the Princess threw her shoe at the boy and it is not nice to throw you shoe at someone. I showed her the blog with both stories and pictures up and I was surprised to find out that she remembered the first story and what it was about. I asked her which story she liked best and she said she liked both stories best. I don't know. It is so hard to tell if she is into this or not. I hope she likes it. I don't want to force it on her. I want it to be something that she looks forward to. I guess only time will tell.

Comments on "The Yearling"

Well we did our first story of the year tonight. I Sat them down and explained what New Years was, and we talked about resolutions and what that meant. Then I asked Goldie if she wanted to make any. She said that she wanted to be nice to her mommy and not fake cry. I told her those were good resolutions. I then told her about my resolution to make up a story a week for them, and I asked her if she wanted to hear the first one. She did. So I read it to her as she held the picture I painted to go with it. She listened very politely, and the said next time she would like one about a princess, like Cinderella! Haha. I told her I would see what I could come up with. She said she liked the story though, and we talked about it. She liked the part about the snow falling best. She is so funny! Bella on the other hand could have cared less, she mostly just crawled around on me and then started screaming when I would not nurse her. I guess she is still a bit young for it, but perhaps as the year progresses. All in all I think it has been a successful start!