Summer Camp Week 7

Miss Roo

This week was the five senses! Roo learned a cute little song about them. They made popcorn on taste day, had a dance party for hearing, did a scent experiment for smell and all kinds of fun stuff. I was hard pressed to come up with a "senses outfit" as she requested. We went with the octopus shirt because she has lots of tentacles to touch and big eyelashes to see trough. Riley's my mini Miss Frizzle. They even had a big wet sponge fight for Wet Wednesday.

We found out earlier this summer that the teacher Roo was supposed to have for VPK has been promoted to director of the preschool at a different location. We were totally bummed, but we figured her PreK3 teacher (who we adore) would move up to VPK. In a strange twist of fate we were told this week that Roo's Prek3 teacher is moving up to VPK at the other campus! My heart broke now both wonderful teachers are leaving. I'm so grateful she got to spend the summer with them. Riley was sad too, but she recovered much quicker than Mom. She told her teacher "Miss D, I didn't know you once, too. Maybe the new teacher will be great!" My sweet girl.

Riley has been writing up a storm lately, I love it. I don't know a lot of 4 year olds who would be concerned about correctly labeling the flowers they colored. I love how differently my kids learn, Isaac never wrote a word on his own. Isaac is a straight up visual learner. He made diagrams with pencil, they were great. The second picture is her would-have-been teacher for VPK. I love it. I'm thinking of framing it and giving to her the last week of summer camp.

Isaac

Week Seven Video Wrap Up

Weekly Wrap Up Questions
1. What did you learn that you didn't know before?
2. What was the worst part of your week?
3. What was the best part of your week?
4. What was your favorite meal?
5. What was the weather mostly like?
6. What was your favorite activity/project?
7. How many books did you read?
8. What were they called?
9. Which book was your favorite?
10. Where are some places you went this week?

Why Write?

I write two blogs a mommy blog and a wedding blog. The wedding blog gets easily double the amount of hits per day as the mommy blog. I attribute this to weddings being a more general topic than being a disabled parent, but who knows. I know that the wedding crowd loves pictures, the more the better. From my own experience mommy blog readers like pictures, but they are looking to find information. They want a good story so they know they are not alone in the jungles of parenting.

I'm a very open person by nature so it's seems completely natural to me to share everything I've learned and experienced with anyone who will listen. I also have an absolute obsession with documenting things. I love to read old journal or flip through old scrapbooks. I think it's important to have the good, bad and the ugly to reflect on and pass down. Maybe I'm wrong and it's all a rationalization for a narcissistic tendency to talk about myself.

I hope it's not the latter. I hope people laugh, cry and learn (or at least feel less alone) reading my writing. Maybe I'll never make any real money writing, but I have received at least 4 emails in the time I've been writing this blog from other disabled moms who were happy to have found my writing. I once heard a talk given by a visual artist who used this anonymous quote: The purpose of art is to remind us we are not alone. Maybe, it isn't the most high brow publication ever, but in a way I'd like to think that applies to what I do.

Enough about me (for today)... Thanks for reading!!