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s crying he held firm and with all confidence said it s okay mom because i m going to come back and visit all the time as we left school that day we walked with other moms and kids to get slurpees the day had been filled with carnival games and sunshine of course we had to end with a slurpee what else could we do then like the pied piper of hamlin the class teacher comes over and sits with the kids and we get her a slurpee too it was a perfect memory to end the day now i m sure you re wondering how the kid fared through all this being as it was his first year of preschool i was soo nervous to leave him that first day i cried all the way home then i sat by the phone certain they would call me with news of an injury the weeks went on and i never once got called to come success the teacher and i both laughed about those first few weeks confessing how nervous we both secretly were holding our breath the first time he used scissors and climbed up the slide ladder seems so silly now as we watched him run around the play yard so for me this school year felt like miles of milestones now onto the next new adventure posted by forrestermom at 11 37 am 3 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest wednesday april 20 2011 the magical musical box normally this time of year i would be passionately talking about my ever growing garden seeds starting to sprout new bed being built flora and fauna etc not this year it seems we are no longer in kansas anymore toto wait maybe we are in kansas so far we ve had sun rain sleet hail and snow all in one day we are just missing the tornado and i m certainly not hoping for that with all the crazy weather here in the pnw it sadly means we ve been stuck inside for way too long i ve been starting to run out of creative indoor activities we ve done the art and craft box we ve done the cardboard boxes we ve even done a garage sand box under the bed box w lid and wheels fill with 1 bag of sand play in garage in the rain it s portable we have now moved on to the music box this is a toy box filled with a collection of musical instruments and not the ones you normally think of there are no tubas or trombones in this box think kindermusik style instruments sticks and bars and clackerheads below is the list of our magical marching band put on costumes blast some music and bang away the magical musical toy box 2 drums 1 wooden with mallets 1 plastic with plastic sticks 2 tambourines big and small 4 seashell castinets 2 clackerheads 2 shaker eggs we had more but the cats hid them 1 set of bars with mallets 4 jingle bells differing shapes and sizes spoons the kind that smack together 2 harmonicas 1 plastic 1 metal 1 slide whistle 1 kazoo 1 recorder 2 sets of sticks big and small 2 sets of sand blocks wooden spoon with wooden bowl 6 shakers random collection 2 sets of guiros frogs an assortment of bowls and spoons from the kitchen sneak out during our jam session as well after an hour of this i m pretty sure i ve met my gym quota for the day and the kids are sure to be ready for lunch posted by forrestermom at 10 14 pm 1 comment email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest saturday april 16 2011 a filmaker in the family last week the cap t came to me and told me he wanted to make a lego movie i gave him my camera and set it to video and told him to go at it after about 5 minutes he cam back and said no mom i don t want to be in the movie i want to make the kind where the legos move by themselves i realized what he wanted to do was make a stop motion movie think gumby or mr bill so we went to the internet and found a plethora of links to teach us how to make a lego stop motion so again i gave the cap t my camera set it to auto put it on the tripod and showed him how to frame the picture we spent about 5 minutes together and then i left him to his own devices he spent 2 days taking about 350 pictures he picked out music and i dictated dialog he made all the decisions with my guidance the pictures were then uploaded we deleted the bad ones and i transferred them to imovie from there the magic happened below is the final product a little over 3 minutes the cap t has his creative collective out for the world to see enjoy posted by forrestermom at 11 24 pm 1 comment email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest monday january 31 2011 birthday with friends some days i feel like i ve woken up to some sort of weird experiment or at best a kooky japanese game show just when i think challenging times are behind me wham o let s see what happens when we do this what does this all mean you ask let me explain middle of last week we had a new sectional delivered woohoo the kid and i were home and were positioning into well position i went upstairs for a moment when suddenly i heard a sickening thud then the silent cry that only mom ears can hear something like the dog whistle thing i raced downstairs and realized the kid was testing out the bounciness of the cushions and since i hadn t pushed the mammoth thing against the wall his face tested out the hardness of the window ledge yeah it s hard his forehead grew an egg in front of my eyes and by the time we were upstairs his right eye was looking like he took a left hook in a prize fight his nose was slowing matching the rest in swollen size ugh somehow one of the japanese judges was on my side remember how i m on a game show and had me infuse the child right before the chaos began i m sure i have a lot of kharma to make up for that favor all in all life went on nurses were called extra infusions were given along with ice kisses hugs and a few sweet treats fast forward a couple days still infusing the kid had turned the big 3 this meant the annual well check all went well until the doc freaked out over his being 42 solid lbs personally it s no big deal height and weight all evened out and when i asked her to check out the captain at age 3 uh yeah he was about 40 eventually they stop gorging themselves and stretch why do i bother with this obscure moment of well checks weight and shots yeah shots oh because the one shot the kid did get left him with cellulitis cellulitis is a bacterial infection that can become extremely life threatening if not treated sunday morning the kid woke up with an arm almost twice it s normal size what the hell any parent would freak out over this right yes but i was not freaking out from the usual what s wrong with my kid s arm parent reaction i was freaking out because his birthday party was in 4 hours and a call to the nurse was sending us to the er to confirm the cellulitis seriously i want off this damn game show right now i forfeit this was not any old birthday party this was the kid s first real birthday party with friends i made a fancy cake and cupcakes oh no this was not going down this way so with encouragement from our nurse who said we can make it we raced off to seattle i m pretty sure i told every medical personnel i came in contact with that it was the kid s birthday party with friends when the countdown was zero minus 20 minutes and we were still in the exam room waiting for mr attending doctor to give us his pope like blessing to leave it was time for me to take charge somehow i found the guy and convinced him to let us leave while i promised to give the antibiotics that very day from home yeah yeah sounds good but we have a party to go to not sure how we managed it but the kid and i made it to that party only about 5 minutes late take that you jerky little bacteria and your game show post script the kid had a blast the party was a success and cake and ice cream were happily had by all posted by forrestermom at 8 50 pm 1 comment email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest thursday january 6 2011 published i recently wrote an article for our local kindermusik blog entitled the process this wasn t the first blog post for them but it was the first to really be recognized by complete strangers as a lover of literature and a someday aspiring novelist it made me proud and feel published not only did it go to our local kindermusik blog but it was asked to be posted on the kindermusik international blog site as well as another mommy blog in canada heck my writing has gone international woohoo below is the article as well as the links to the other blogs thanks strangers http studio3music com blog http mindsonmusic kindermusik com http www mommyagogo ca index cfm pagepath articles the__process_ id 29730 the process as a mom of 2 very different boys one with sensory processing issues and one with a severe bleeding disorder i know things in my house can be far from considered normal i remember going to kindermusik when the older one with spd was little he was always so busy it seemed like all the other 6 9 month old babies were happy and content to sit in their mommies laps and smile and clap with the music they would wave as the shakers were put away and smile again when the next song would start not my baby he would crawl around the room looking under curtains pulling himself up where ever he could he d look for anything out of place to discover and get into i was practically chasing him around the room when shaker time was over he d fight to keep that thing in his hand and when the shakers disappeared he d scream and cry through the entire next song i d quietly soothe him whispering in his ear i could feel all the other moms looking at me sometimes we d leave the room until things got calm this is when i d come back and miss allison would talk about the process my younger boy never had this issue although his deal is to just lie like a log on the floor during the dancing music everyone just dances over him like he s a prop on the carpet of course i m used to being the family that stands out in a crowd neither child really follows anything after years with miss allison and learning from montessori school i have become adjusted to knowing what the process really means at 6 9 months old the older child was processing everything in his environment including the music and songs of kindermusik a week or two after learning a new song or dance he d try mimicking it at home not often in class he was too busy there too busy processing everything the little one does the same thing he may just lay and roll on the floor in class but on the way home he sings every single word to every song i learned something else about the process over these 5 years as well letting go of the perfectionist in myself this year s gingerbread house after setting out all the supplies for our family gingerbread house i had ideas of creating a masterpiece but after several summers of kindermusik crafts and home art projects i knew the house was going to be anything but that the boys jumped right in icing and decorating until every bit of candy was either on that house or had been eaten throughout i kept reminding myself that it s all about the process i ve seen other moms do all the gluing and sticking and messy work for their art projects or have a separate kid s christmas tree so that the real tree can look like martha stewart s and that s fine those trees are beautiful and the projects look just like the originals what i ve learned about the process is that as much as i want that perfect looking tree and gingerbread house for my very own i remember the original ones even more i remember the hand turkey with 3 eyes and feathers on his head but none on the fingers part the gingerbread house with candy only on one side or only decorated with the blue candies i remember the santa picture that i had to be in with my sweats on hair a mess and no makeup because the little one would not go near the man in the red suit this is all part of the process the process where not only the children are learning and growing and absorbing but i am too the perfectionist still wants to fight it but i remember all these things to keep her at bay and until the children can hang outside christmas lights on their own i can still light up the neighborhood in my own martha stewart ness so the next time you see us dancing to the beat of our own drum you can stare it s okay we are just processing and making memories while doing it posted by kindermusik mommy heidi forrester who still hopes her gingerbread house will one day look like the picture on the package posted by forrestermom at 8 07 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest tuesday january 4 2011 the act of giving one night at the dinner table after the captains birthday and right before christmas he announced that he wanted to give some toys away for kids that don have any i told him that sounded like a great idea he volunteered to give away 5 so i looked at the kid and said he should give 3 toys away one for each year of age he promptly yelled that he was only 2 1 2 after a few moments of negotiating we all agreed on 4 toys from the cap t and 2 toys from the kid we left it at that for awhile and got through the mounds of holiday gifts and declared it was finally new year back into our normal routine i asked the kids to go to the rooms after dinner and pick out the toys they d like to send to kids without toys surprisingly they said okay the cap t quickly dug around and found a couple of crappy fast food toys and a couple of random toys he pulled out of who knows where i had to praise him for trying it was really the act of giving that i wanted to teach we d get to the other stuff later i went to the kid s room and pulled out two bins of toys from the closet and asked him to pick two toys to give to some other little boys sure enough he picked out two toys and promptly dropped them into the sack i pause here only to wonder what is going on in their little heads hopefully they are so smart that they realize they have so many toys they could open their own toy store really though it s more like out of sight out of mind the kid actually picked out two good toys i hope it doesn t come to bite me in the butt later when he s looking for his fisher price rocking guitar or his truck that the kids are convinced hollers comcast to the rescue once they finished with this task i thought wow that was sooo easy i should do this every week instead i challenged them now go pick out 1 stuffed animal to give to babies happily and feeling great about their giving they yelled okay the capt came out with some random bear the kid came out with a cute red and pink turtle with big sweet eyes the kids gave this to me last valentine s day i was a little sad about this but i started this and was trying to prove a point well the capt did not want to give the animal up let me tell you first off that the kids have not looked through these stuffed animals for months the cats drag them out on occasion but the kids kind of have their 1 or 2 favorites at bed and that s it call me mean mommy but i stood my ground the turtle was in th...