Monday, April 15, 2013

Somebody buy this house already!!

We tentatively had an open house scheduled for tomorrow for realtors to come see our house and hopefully want to show it to their clients.  I knew that it wasn't 100% for sure so I didn't get too involved in cleaning, but we did do some things around the house this weekend to try to get ready.  This morning we got through our school work (more about that later) and then I started decluttering and straightening up places that I knew wouldn't get messed up if the open house got rescheduled for another day this week.  The problem with all of this is that certain two year-olds in this house can't handle it if they don't have your full attention.  We also are in that mode of two kids can play together just fine, but three's a crowd.  So as I was packing some toys up to put out in the car for now I had to intervene what felt like a million times for biting, scratching, and just about anything Ruby could do to get Rachel and Ford to play with her.  Rachel didn't quite get the concept I gave her that if she would make Ruby happy for 10 minutes, I'd be done.  Instead, Rachel kept arguing with her and taking things away from her and Ruby just had enough.  So now Rachel has a scratch on her face and her neck.  Thank goodness she got away from her before Ruby bit her!  Oh, and of course, we had a potty accident in the middle of all of that.  Well, the realtor called and rescheduled for another day this week so I just stopped cleaning and packing and started playing and fixing lunch.  Everyone was also tired, so we did an early lunch and they're all settled down for a nap now.  AAAHHH!!! This afternaptime will be better!
As far as school goes, this morning was great!  Rachel finished up some review for math, then wrote some animal names (we're preparing for the zoo), and finished up her Kindergarten handwriting book today.  She's so proud of herself!  Ford wrote out a couple of animal names and then while Ruby and I were doing zoo animal stickers, Ford kept writing random letters and asking me if they spelled something.  It was hilarious!  He'd write something like U-L-P-A and say, "What do those letters make?"  We all kept laughing at his funny words.  Then we read four books together about the zoo and talked about what a zoo is and the types of things that we'll see this Friday.  Now, if the thunderstorms will just stay away!!!

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