Seriously. I’m gonna try to get better with the whole blog. I’m hoping that my new computer/internet will help me with motivation. We got the new computer on Sunday and the internet hotspot didn’t work. I had to go to town on Tuesday and get a new sims card. Now we are off and running. Next on the agenda is to transfer the data from the old to the new. I have to take it on Thursday to get that done.
But enought of the techie talk. Let’s get to the good stuff. Updates!
Sorry…again. This update will not include pictures. I have to get my pics back from the old….transfers….data usage…blah..blah..blah…
Ruby: We have eight teeth now. No molars. So she’s still on the mush. She eats at 11am, 4:30, and 10pm. No snacks or drinks/juice, only water. She is doing well. Still have a blocked tear duct. We go tomorrow to a well baby visit. She has a shot to finish out her shots for the next year. We’ll do that shot at the health department.
She currently LOVES American flags and stars. Everytime she spots/finds/sees/brings an American flag, she wants the adult to sing “You’re a Grand Old Flag” and for a star it is “twinkle, twinkle little star.” She also loves tractors, trucks and cars.
She is doing really well with her fine motor skills. She is currently using crayons and markers of all sizes.. We have assigned areas where she can color/draw. Her sessions rarely last more than 10 minutes. I’ve made some cute rollups that hold the crayons and markers. She is getting better at not being frustrated when pulling them out of the holder. She can feed herself using her hands and a fork, but is working on using a spoon. She hates drinking out of a cup, and loves using straws.
For communication: “here you go”, “all done” (though not clearly…but we get her meaning), “ooohhhhh woooow”, “it’s dark in here” (from a book she LOVES), “mama”, “bye bye”, “bread”, some like “what’s that?”…..are her most used phrases. She doesn’t really say individual words. She signs: please, bread, all done… She receptivly or understands most questions or requests. She can find her name in a group of color words. She can find the words…blue, red, yellow and purple in the same group. She can find the color blue and purple. she identifies by sound: b, g, s, w, v. If the adult asks “where is the….” for most letter sounds, she can find the corresponding letter. As of right now, she is not concerned with numbers and has no interest in them. She pretends to count but it sounds like “ga, gaa,gaaa” as she slowly touches something. She will receptivly find a square and circle. She is working on figuring out what hole certain shapes fit into on some toys. The most difficult for her is the rhombus (diamond). For gross motor skills she is working on jumping and hopping. She has just figured out she can walk/run. We are also working on riding a tricycle.
She has recently been able to “blow kisses”, lean in for a kiss, turn lights on and off, say “shhhh”–but it is more like a blow with her finger up near her mouth.
She is making the change from two naps to one. Some days she sleeps hard for both naps…and other days she plays by herself for one of the two. (as of right now during this writing…her first nap….she is banging on the wall and yelling…and singing)
Bible study is over, so we are now going to a little free wade pool on Tuesday afternoons with the mom group. She is working on not going up and taking something that others are not currently playing with (but have set down to get something else for the little game they are playing). She is also figuring out how to get in an out of the wade pool. She spends most of her time throwing pool toys back into the water.
All in all, she is progressing nicely and works hard everyday to figure something out.
Wheat harvest has come and gone. It was one of the earliest ones in a long time. They are planting milo and soybeans over the top. Matthew is working hard on fertizlier and chemigation. I think it’s his least favorite thing to do. He leaves early, gets in really late (after 10pm), and leaves again to go check on systems…last night he was in the bed at 2:00am and up again at 6am. We need rain, but he would still have to do fertilizer. He is worn out most of the time. We are looking forward to some “down” time of August…right before harvest.
