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Bragging

Wednesday, November 27th, 2013

We have been a little obsessed with playing Boggle as a family lately. Ben and I have even been keeping track of score totals and how many games we have each won. (I won’t brag here about who is winning that contest though!) But I do want to take the time to brag on Mikayla a little bit.

She loves to play Boggle with us, but never really writes down words. It started with her just writing down any letter that she knew how to write. Gradually we were able to convince her to write down letters she saw on the board. Then over time, she took it upon herself to write actual words using some of the letters she saw. Here is her most recent attempt at writing some of those words. We were both very proud of her attempts!

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Bragging

Wednesday, November 27th, 2013

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Max at Four Months

Sunday, November 10th, 2013

It amazes me how much Max is growing and changing each day! He is getting more of a personality. Ben said just yesterday that he seems much happier than Mikayla was, but when he is upset he is really upset! He isn’t usually just chill like she was. He is either smiling or screaming! 😉 But when you get him going he can really be a charmer with his intoxicating smile and giggle! He is also getting so chunky in the face that he is getting some dimples which are super adorable.

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Evidence of the screaming monster!

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His face is really scrunched up here, but you get the general idea! You can see a little of the dimples here.

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Weight – 6.9 kg / Just over 15 pounds

Height – 26 inches long

Head Circumference – 16.5 inches

At about 3.5 months he started rolling over from back to belly. He is much more content on his belly now that he can roll in both directions and put himself there. Plus his little arms and neck are strong enough to prop himself up so he can fully see everything around him. He is very observant! He can sit up unassisted for a few seconds!! This morning he was able to prop himself up like in the picture below and sit for a couple of minutes. His sitting unassisted time is increasing each time. But he does love to hold onto your fingers and be standing. His legs seem very strong!

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This morning he actually sat like this for a couple of minutes by propping himself up with his hands.

Sleep is still hit or miss. We are still up 3-4 times a night for nursing. Luckily most of the time he eats and goes right back to sleep so I suppose things could be worse. Naptimes are still inconsistent. He seems to be much more of a cat napper than a long napper. Very rarely will he sleep longer than a 45 minute stretch during the day.

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For the last two weeks Max has been a little more irritable than usual. We think he might be teething, but so far no teeth. In addition to being irritable he chews on everything in sight. And if he can get your fingers in his mouth he really goes to town!

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Mikayla took this picture of Max with his "grow with me" owl!

Max has also started showing some interest in holding on and playing with his toys. He has always enjoyed his play mat, but is just now starting to interact and play with the toys.

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Speaking of playing, the kids at the hostel are still in love with Max. Even the boys are starting to come and take him to hold and play with. I love it! Mikayla still very much loves her brother and spending time with him. And I would say that Max feels the same way based upon the reaction he makes when she lays next to him to play. Mikayla is such a good big sister and I love watching the two of them interact and play with each other.

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Max loves sitting and playing/chatting with his daddy!

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I can’t remember if I ever posted this picture or not, but wanted to make sure it got posted. This is Simo’s (the twin and Max’s namesake) mom. She was at the guardian’s meeting we had at the hostel back in September.

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Max at Three Months

Sunday, October 6th, 2013

Our boy continues to grow and change each day. I forget just how quickly they can change at this young age! He is still eating every two hours or so (which is a little exhausting for this momma, but so worth it)! Here are his three month stats:

Weight – 6kg / 13.2lbs

Length – 24 inches

Head circumference – 16 inches

According to our calculations that puts him in the 50th percentile in weight and length, which is much lower than we thought he would be. He just seems so big to us, and the Swazis.

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His sleeping patterns are still very inconsistent. At the beginning of the month I thought we had made a turn toward sleeping through the night. He had a week where he would go to bed around 7 or 8 and sleep until 4 or 5, nurse and go back to sleep for an hour or so. However, that was short lived. After a week of this he returned to his old habits of waking to nurse every two hours or so. he will now go to bed around 7 or 8 and sleep until 1 or 2, occasionally early, and from then on he wakes up every two hours. We had stopped swaddling him for a short period, but have started that again and he seems to sleep a little sounder at night, even if it isn’t for a long period. Nap times are hit or miss. He will regularly wake up for 1-2 hours and then take a short 30-45 minute nap. He usually takes two longer (1-2 hours) naps mid-morning and sometimes in the afternoon and then will dose off again for a short period around 4 or 5. I am trying to make sure he is in the crib for most of these naps, but we are still so inconsistent with nap time schedules. Not sure how we were able to get Mikayla on such a good schedule! On a typical day he will take at least one of those naps in a baby carrier.

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Speaking of, I use my baby carrier so much more with Max than I ever did with Mikayla. Max is "worn" everyday! It makes it easier to get things done with a 4 year old around, plus when we are traveling to the hostel for various meetings and groups it is easier to carry him in one than it is to carry him in my arms. He sleeps great in the baby carriers too, and will fall asleep almost instantly when you put him in one.

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The hostel kids and staff are still enamored by Max and will often fight over who gets to hold him. If he is awake when we are there, I hardly see him! That is until he cries and they bring him back to nurse, their default response for when a baby cries. As soon as I calm him down, often without nursing, he is whisked off again!

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Max’s personality continues to grow and change each day. He is smiling and cooing more and crying less (most days)! He is even making a real effort to laugh. It is really funny to watch him try to make noises. It is almost like he tries to make them in the back of his throat, but can’t quite get the sound to make its way out. But when he gets going you could keep him talking for several minutes. Mikayla absolutely adores this and is constantly trying to engage him in "talking".

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Max is still not a big fan of tummy time, although if you can catch him in a good mood he will tolerate it for a few minutes. While on his back he is able to wiggle around, so much so that if you walk away for a minute he will be in a different position entirely when you return! He is still rolling from belly to back, but not vice versa yet. Although he is now rocking himself up on his side, so I don’t think it will be long now.

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Like Mikayla at his age, Max has a full head of hair but it is a little awkward looking. He has a small cowlick on the crown of his head which makes it look like he is wearing a toupee! Ben is ready to shave it off, but I am not there yet. It does look a little silly, but he is a baby after all! Speaking of appearance, he is still sporting his three birth marks. The forehead one is fading some, but still there and the other two are still very red.

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Max really enjoys pushing up and standing on his legs when you are holding him. And again, just like Mikayla, he loves to face out and check out what is going on. I think he is going to be social like his big sister! Ben also got smart and started rolling a towel to place in his tub to make bath time a little easier! Genius!!

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First "swim"!

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I have been meaning to write a post about how we chose Maxwell Simo for our son’s name, but haven’t gotten around to it. Thankfully my amazing husband wrote one so I will just share his with you. You can find it here.

Tags: Growing up, Max
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Max at One Month

Friday, August 9th, 2013

Last Sunday Max turned one month old. It is crazy how fast this past month has flown by. Ben and I were actually just talking last night about how much he has grown and changed in the last month and just how quickly it has gone by. With Mikayla that first month seemed like an eternity, but with Max it has gone too fast. Maybe it is because we also have a very active four year old to look after!

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Grow with me owl at 2 weeks.

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Grow with me owl at 1 month

Max is quite different from his sister. While she was always pretty laid back he is a little more high maintenance (although he is starting to come out of this phase). He definitely cries more than his sister ever did and he is a lot bigger than she ever was! He is a chunky monkey and eats like a pig!!

Max loves to be held, and during the day actually sleeps better in someone’s arms or in a baby carrier than he does in his crib. At one month he is starting to get in somewhat of a sleeping routine. He usually takes a mid-morning nap, an afternoon nap and an early evening nap before calling it a day around 9 or 10. He sleeps pretty good at night and most nights gets up to nurse 3-4 times and goes right back to sleep. On rare occasions he likes to have a party around 3 or 4am! He will often have a crying spell right around dinner time, which has made for some interesting meal times!

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We started Max in cloth diapers after his umbilical cord fell off (around two weeks). We only have 11 at the moment so we alternate between cloth and disposable, but mostly cloth during the day. I am also breastfeeding Max and it is going much smoother than with Mikayla. I had a low supply with her and seem to have an abundance with him!

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Max’s first cloth diaper!

At around two weeks, Max rolled over for the first time (belly to back). He has been doing it pretty consistently since then, but absolutely hates time on his tummy. As soon as you put him on his tummy he starts screaming. We keep trying, but so far he just seems to hate it. Which is ironic because he loves to fall asleep on your chest where he is essentially on his tummy! He also has really good neck control (both of our kids have had this). He can hold his head steady for several seconds and is even able to lift it up when on his tummy. That is when he isn’t screaming.

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He is starting to enjoy playing on his back. He will occasionally "talk" with us making small cooing sounds. And he is starting to smile some, smiles that are not your typical gas smiles. He also has more periods of wakefulness than he did two weeks ago.

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We took Max up to the hostel for the first time last week when the kids were there. They were absolutely in love and almost knocked us over when we got to the gates. They all wanted to see him and said what a beautiful baby he was. I don’t think he will be short on people who love him. He handled the interaction like a champ, slept right through it! 😉 There are also some cultural differences between raising an American infant and a Swazi infant. The biggest is the way we bundle up children. For us Max is sufficient in a long sleeve outfit with pants, a lightweight blanket and maybe a hat depending on temperature. In Swaziland they bundle their babies up until they are sweating – thick wool blankets and at least three layers of clothing in 80 degree weather! We often get scolded because Max is not bundled up appropriately! Just one of the many differences we are finding.

Mikayla is in love with her brother and has been a great helper this past month. She is on "diaper duty", helping to take care of dirty diapers and pick out his outfits each day! She loves to snuggle with him and hold him on the couch. She even seems oblivious to his screaming. Yesterday he was crying really loud and Ben was talking to him to calm him down. Mikayla told Ben to that he was being too loud. When he asked her if Max was being loud too she said no!

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Max was born with three distinct birth marks. One on his forehead that looks like a triangle, one on the crown of his head and one on the back of his neck. All three are still very visible, although the forehead triangle is starting to fade some. Ben likes to refer to this one as the arrow to show "white people’ where to feed the baby!! His eyes have bounced between being brown and blue, but within the last week they are consistently blue so we are thinking we will have two blue eyed children.

We are starting to get into a pretty good groove and it feels completely normal to be a family of four! We head to the doctor next week for a six week check up and some shots. Anxious to see how much my (not so) little boy weighs!

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Tags: Growing up, Max, Mikayla
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Mawell’s Birth Story

Friday, July 5th, 2013

Yesterday, July 4, 2013, we welcomed our son into the world. He was born at 12:45 Central African Time at Mkhiwa Clinic in Manzini, Swaziland. He is perfect and all of us are absolutely in love, especially Mikayla!

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I wanted to take the time to write out his birth story while it was fresh on my mind. I waited almost 16 months to write down Mikayla’s and forgot too many details. The story below might be a little too much information for some folks out there so consider this your warning!

About 4:00am I was woken up by a POP and then a small trickle of water. At first I thought I had peed the bed and then my mind got to wondering if it could be the amniotic fluids starting to leak. I tried to lay back down, but kept wondering if it was indeed my water breaking. I wasn’t having any real strong contractions at this point. About 5:00am I woke up Ben. His sat up quickly and asked "Is it time?" I didn’t know the answer, but figured he should be awake and know what was going on. I decided to take a shower since I wasn’t sleeping. We already had a doctors appointment scheduled in town, so we figured we could just go in early to check. When I got out of the shower (around 5:30am) there was a huge gush of water that was in fact my water breaking. Even though I was only having a few small contractions we decided to finish packing up our stuff and head to the hospital. (Once your water breaks you have a 24-48 hour window to give birth before concerns about infection start to arise and you have to consider interventions). We ended up leaving our house about 6:45. I will be honest I got a little teary as we were waving goodbye to Mikayla (who was staying back at home with Joe). It sounds ridiculous I know!! Thankfully the road out of the mission, is already half paved – I was not looking forward to bumping all the way in. The asphalt sped up the trip and we only had to stop once so I could get through a contraction.

We rolled into Manzini about 8:00 and stopped at the grocery for some bananas thinking they would be good energy food to munch on throughout labor. We got to the hospital around 8:30 and started the process of checking in. Ben actually had to leave at this point to go find an ATM to pay the bill up front! (The total bill for a normal delivery is one of the highest in Swaziland, and still only amounted to about $850). It wasn’t until 9:30 that I had my first internal exam of the pregnancy. They don’t actually check for dilation and effacement at any of the prenatal checkups. To my dismay I was only 1cm dilated and 50% effaced and the contractions were weak and widely spaced. At this point I was really concerned about the labor going slow and not progressing fast enough to make in the 24 hour window. Little did I know that Max had other plans for us!

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Hanging out in the ward watching Big Bang Theory waiting for
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During the first exam they found Maxwell’s heart rate was 170-180, which is really high and caused some alarm. They also wanted me to hook up to an IV, but I asked to avoid that so I could move around more during the labor process. The midwife had no problem with that decision as long as I stayed hydrated and wasn’t throwing up. I am very glad we made that decision.

After the internal exam, I was moved to a regular room to progress through labor. Once we got settled in they checked the fetal heart rate again and it had returned to normal, but the doctor asked to hook me up to a fetal heart monitor for to keep an eye on the situation. I had about thirty minutes to move around, but couldn’t find a comfortable position. At this point contractions were between 7 and 15 minutes apart and with varying intensity.

The midwife came back at about 10:00, checked the heart rate again (still normal) and decided to go ahead and hook up the fetal monitor. I had the monitor on for about 40 minutes and towards the end of the time, the contractions really started picking up and I was having a hard time finding a comfortable spot. Since things were normal with the baby, I was able to remove the fetal monitor at that point and move around. I think I tried just about every position I had read about in the books and literature and none of them were comfortable. I had a great partner in Ben and he did a fantastic job of coaching me throughout. He would help me get my breathing back on track when I started to panic during contractions. And he even let me bite him, which I still feel really bad about, when they got really strong!

Around 12:00, the midwife came back in to do another exam. I remember having a pretty strong contraction when she got there so she had to wait a few minutes. She started the exam and it was so painful because the contractions kept coming. To all of our surprise I had quickly moved to 6cm dilated and fully effaced. She said that we needed to move to the delivery room. This was really difficult for me because I was in so much physical pain I literally couldn’t make myself move. Ben came to the rescue and somehow got me moved. I remember him saying that is we didn’t go ahead and move I would have to delivery outside the maternity ward. I wasn’t aware of it at the time, but he certainly was, I was going through transition and entering the last stage of labor. Somehow I was able to make it into a wheel chair and across the hall into the delivery room. I climbed up onto the bed in the room and the nurse left to get me a gown to change into.

I had very strong contractions for about 10 minutes – so strong that I couldn’t help but scream (and cuss) in pain. Out of nowhere I got the overwhelming urge to push and knew things had progressed very quickly. At this point there was no nurse in the room. I told Ben to go get someone, but every time he tried to go, I pulled him back because I couldn’t let him leave my side. Thankfully, the nurse heard the ordeal and quickly came in. She was shocked to see we were already ready to deliver. I told her I could feel the baby coming and she got pretty worried as she rushed to scrub in and get her gloves on. I remember a lot of screaming and the sensation of the "burning ring of fire" the books all talked about. By the time the midwife was ready, the head was already crowning. I was in so much pain I could not move, so Ben and another nurse had to roll me over, prop me up and hold my legs for me. Pretty sure this was the point where I took a few chucks out of Ben’s arm. I am very thankful things went quickly because things were so intense, I don’t know how much more I could have taken.

Because of the speed at which things progressed, the doctor did not get there until after things were well on their way. He supervised and allowed the midwife and nurses to take care of the actual delivery. Once we reached this stage, it only took about 3-4 big pushes to get Maxwell out. A few minutes later, lots of screaming, and some claw marks on Ben’s arm, Maxwell entered the world.

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Welcome to world Maxwell Simo Kickert. He was 8lbs 8oz, 20 inches long, and his head measured 36cm.

I had a small tear that needed repaired so the doctor scrubbed in and took care of that while Max was being looked over. He was a bit purple and blue at birth, but quickly gained his color and was in great shape. Ben helped take care of him while I got cleaned up. We weren’t able to do skin-to-skin like we had with Mikayla, but because of the situation, we were much more connected to the actual process of birth.

All in all it was a fast delivery and I am so thankful for that. I don’t handle pain very well and with no access to an epidural here I was really concerned about it but thankfully was able to make it through with no interventions. I never could have done it without the loving support and guidance of Ben. I took a lot of my pain out on him and he handled it like a champ! I am so glad we are a team and were able to be together on the delivery of our son, Maxwell Simo Kickert! Our world will never be the same and we are excited about being a family of four!

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First mommy and son picture. He was cracking me up with all the spit bubble action!

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Daddy and his son!

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Mikayla meets Max! She was so excited.

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Already such a good big sister!

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Touchdown!

Tags: birth story, Growing up, Max
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Mikayla’s Fourth Year in Pictures

Tuesday, June 11th, 2013

Recently Mikayla has really enjoyed looking at pictures and videos from when she was a baby. Which I am not opposed to because it gives me a chance to go back and look at how much she has grown and changed! Mikayla’s fourth year of life was an exciting one filled with travel, visitors and growth! Here is a quick picture recap of her fourth year of life.

May 2012 – We took some three year old pictures and Mikayla went to Bushfire (a local music festival held yearly in Swaziland) for the first time. She also discovered the fine culinary art of making mud pies and had a Mickey themed birthday party!

June 2012 – She took part in her first pig roast (she actually participated in two of these in her fourth year) complete with watching the slaughter all the way through cooking and eating!

July 2012 – She took her first hike up Execution Rock (the first of many during the last year). And became even more goofy!

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August 2012 – In honor of the Olympics she hosted her very own Olympic games with stuffed animals, babies and a few adults! She also traveled to London for the first time and made her first trip back to the USA where she spent lots of time with family and friends!

September 2012 – More time in the USA hanging with friends and family! She also got to meet her cousin Reid!

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October 2012 – She started 3 year old preschool this month.

November 2012 – In addition to hosting another Thanksgiving this year (even bigger than last year) she participated in a global exchange of Traveling Charlie. She had a blast carrying him around the mission (and Swaziland) snapping pictures of her favorite places.

December 2012 – She announced she was going to be a big sister!

January 2013 – She enjoyed spending the month playing with all her fantastic Christmas gifts, including her soccer ball. Please note that she is in a princess skirt and rain boots while playing soccer. This girl has some serious style!

February 2013 – She hosted her first set of visitors since our move to Swaziland. Jana (Ben’s cousin) and her friend Liv came for a a couple of weeks.

March 2013 – Daddy went to Ethiopia and brought Mikayla back a beautiful dress which she refers to as her wedding dress! She also spent almost three weeks visiting with her Grandma and Grandpa Kickert (although I am not sure what happened to all those pictures). She also dyed and hunted Easter eggs.

April 2013 – Her birthday month! She was surprised to find a bike waiting for her on the morning of her fourth birthday!

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What a busy and exciting year this four year old has had!!

Tags: Growing up, Mikayla
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Four Year Pictures Outtakes

Tuesday, May 21st, 2013

I have always known that our daughter is a little bit on the goofy side! She has some serious funny faces and we were able to capture some of those when we went out today to take her 4 year old pictures. She makes me laugh more and more each day!

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Blowing bubbles!

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This is her go to cheesy grin when you tell her to smile!

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"I’m scared" face.

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Surprise!!

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Sneak attack!

This was probably the best photo session we have done with her since she was a newborn! She was really into taking the pictures and as you can see, really animated! If you want to see the "good" pictures from the photo shoot, you can check them out here on Ben’s Facebook page. Here is a sneak peek of them…

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Tags: Growing up, Mikayla
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Preschool–Chicka Chicka Boom Boom

Monday, October 15th, 2012

Since we finished up all our letters and Mikayla is getting older, I felt it was appropriate to begin preschool with her. If we were living in the states and both working, we would be sending her to a preschool at this age, so why not! This past week we started our journey with one of my favorite books Chicka Chicka Boom Boom. If you have never read it, you should. It is a book about all the letters climbing to the top of a coconut tree, falling out, and starting the climb again. There are also two follow up books we used Chicka Chicka, 123 and Boom Chicka Rock. The first is most similar and about numbers that climb up an apple tree, the second is a book about the numbers on a clock having a good time when no one is looking!

I wanted to start off our first week of preschool with some fun stuff and what is more fun than Chicka Chicka Boom Boom. Next week we will begin with a more structured letter, number, shape approach, but more on that later. For now, here are some of the things we did this week.

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Isn’t her little smirk here hilarious?

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She is so hard to get an actual smiling picture of!

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Journal time. I wanted to incorporate daily journal "writing" into our learning time this year (still not sure how that will look, so I am open for suggestions). I got her this plain composition notebook and let her decorate it with stickers to make it hers and we talked about what it was and how we would be using it.

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Chicka Chicka tree hat. She was not as excited about this one as I was. But I thought she looked cute!

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Counting with sticks. We did something similar last year with pom poms, but this time I used "coconut sticks" as the counters. She is still not a huge fan of math and really struggles to complete any math activity.

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For this week’s journal, I wrote a word and she drew the pictures. Our words for this week were sun, tree, coconut, and letters. On each page I wrote our word for the day and then left a space in case she wanted to practice writing her words (which she never did). I think starting next week I will make one day each week practice writing her name.

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Chicka letter match. The tops of the trees were capital letters and the bottoms lowercase letters. She was awesome at this game.

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Chicka hand tree – leaves are her hands, trunk is her forearm and then foam letters were used to spell her name.

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I gave her free reign on this activity. She got an outline of a coconut tree and her letter stamps and went to town stamping letters all over the tree. We talked about the various letters as she stamped them too.

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Special coconut tree snack – apples for leaves, banana for trunk, peanut butter balls for coconuts and butterscotch chips for the sand.

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We pretended this paper towel tube was a coconut tree and matched the letters using stickers. This one back fired a little because the stickers kept falling off and it turns out I didn’t actually have a sticker for each letter! Oops!

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Coconut investigation. I think this was her favorite activity from the whole week. We cracked open a coconut and used our senses to investigate it. She was not a fan of the taste of a real coconut, but didn’t seem to mind the shredded coconut!

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Coconut number match.

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Coconut shape tree. First we sorted and identified the different shapes and then glued them together to make a coconut tree. She also really liked this activity.

Like with most weeks we had lots of activities planned for the week that just did not happen. I overestimate the amount of time she will stay focused each day so we end up with activities that don’t get completed. I guess it is better to be over prepared than under prepared! Next week we will start with a Letter of the Week curriculum, but more on that to come.

Tags: Growing up, Mikayla, preschool
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Mikayla’s Three Year Pictures

Sunday, July 1st, 2012

We had an impromptu three year photo session the other night. Here a couple of the pictures we snapped of Mikayla. She is so hard to get a picture of these days because she doesn’t like to look at you and she has the cheesiest grin when you ask her to smile. Rotten is what she is!

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