Jennifer

What a journey motherhood can be! I know being a mother is one of the greatest accomplishments I will ever do in my lifetime and one of the reasons is because of what my daughter’s say day to day. They know how to make me laugh out loud so hard or even just put a smile on my face for the day.

We went on a 2 mile walk the other day and up and down the road they were yelling poopy heads mommy, look mommy more poopy heads… wow mommy there are poopy heads everywhere. Here mommy you blow this poopy head and make a wish. I mean they were so darn excited about all these poopy heads. I’ll have to admit at first I was like what the heck are you calling poopy heads. Madisyn my oldest was quick to the draw to let me know, MOM these are poopy heads you know. Like DUH MOM!

I couldn’t stop laughing at first… and then I said Madisyn were did you hear them called poopy heads. She said you know mom that is what they called them on Noggin. So I’m not too sure why they were calling them that, but rest assured everywhere we go now, the girls are looking for poopy heads to blow.

I remember doing this as a young girl too and thought it was the best time, I am so glad the girls are having fun in our beautiful nature surroundings as well.

Then that night Lyndsee thought she would leave something special for the tooth fairy. You may say but she is only 3, she is too young to lose a tooth. Well you are exactly right. Let’s just say Lyndsee has been exploring lately in her nose. Yes sigh!

She pulled a critter LOL out of her nose and informed me.. Mom my nose is coming out. I said its ok honey… we’ll just go wash your hands. Then she said No mommy, we have to leave it right here above our bed so the tooth fairy will come get it tonight. HAHAHAHA. She was soooo serious too, so I knew I couldn’t laugh or she would get her feelings hurt. I did laugh inside though.

Those are my girls!

I don’t even want to admit that my child is old enough to be interested in reading. Why can’t she still be interested in just eating cheerios?

Madisyn has always been like a sponge and loves to absorb learning materials and keeps asking for more. I do allow her to play her V-Smile and Leapster, but she does not spend loads of time on those things as I do not want her to just learn by some electronic whiz thing.

I strongly believe when I chose to be a mom, that I was making a commitment to help her understand, to teach her, to motivate her… etc. Not just drop the ball and have an electronic teach her. It just irritates me the more I hear of parents these days just dropping the ball and putting them behind electronics to teach them when as a parent that is what WE are suppose to do. Yes, its fine to have some electronics and let the children have some down time because believe me I know moms need that 10 to 15 minute cool-down period during the day.

When I realized Madisyn was starting to sound out words and was really eager to learn how to read, I went looking and researching for a tool that I could help her with. I came across the Bob Books.

These have been the coolest books to read and it really keeps Madisyn’s attention too. She loves looking at the funny illustrations too and she now knows that this can help her sound out the words.

This is a set of books that comes with groups. Each group has a set of 4 books in that group. Each word you learn in the books, you carry on to the next group set. You should just see the glow and smile on Madisyn’s face when she realizes she has read a whole book by herself. Not only is she happy, but I am getting to see every moment of this priceless time and I can proudly say I helped my child learn to read. It doesn’t get any better than that.