Short Post

I am DEFINITELY not going to say that today was uneventful, because it was not! But I spent most of my day volunteering at the Speech School and none of the volunteer work was with Nate, so who cares to hear about that!!! That is why this is going to be a short but sweet post!

I did manage to sneak some time in my crazy schedule of helping with “Enrichment Day” at Nate’s school to be able to eat lunch in the classroom with Nate and his assistant teacher! It was so fun! Seeing his face light up when I walked in was priceless! He introduced me to his classmates like a true gentleman!

After my long, hot, exhausting day at the Atlanta Speech School(I would abbreviate that but that’s inappropriate. Hehe. You know it was funny, Julia!!) Nate and I went to swim with Ms. Linsay for PT. On the way there I told him that I needed a nap. He looked at me and said, “Suzi, it’s almost dark then it will be bedtime soon.” I love that precious boy and he was so right. When we got to the pool he played several games and swam like a fish!  He loves swimming and playing with Linsay.

We were both excited to get home. He was mostly excited because his mama was home. I was excited to eat! Julia cooked breakfast for dinner and we had pancakes, biscuits, and scrambled eggs! Yummy!!

I spent the latter part of my night watching my dear friend scrape wallpaper off the walls in the downstairs bathroom. Julia can make ANYTHING entertaining! We live an exciting life here in the Hudson house!

Whew, what a day!

We had a great day today! After school Nate and I went for cupcakes at Gigi’s Cupcakes in Marietta for our afternoon snack! They were so yummy! We both had the Texas Milk Chocolate.  Nate picked it out and if you follow the link and look at it you will see why! It is a chocolate cupcake, with chocolate icing, chocolate sprinkles, and a bright yellow fondant star. He saw the star and immediately decided that was the one for us! It also didn’t help that it was chocolate on top of chocolate on top of chocolate!  Here’s my precious boy posing in front of the yummy cupcakes!!

and his half eaten cupcake! We brought the rest home for another day! They are HUGEEE!

After we got home we wrote our name some more. I am loving how excited he is to write his name and he’s even more excited to show his mommy when she gets home!!!

Nate showing you his work!

Nate loves playing with his trains. Today as soon as Julia walked in the door he summoned her to the living room and roped her into playing with him. If she left the room to check on supper in the oven he would look at me and say “Suzi, do you want to play trains?” That boy is a hoot! Here are some pictures Julia snapped of him playing with his trains! (P.S. Julia should be a train mapper. She did awesome laying out the tracks for him!)

WOW!

Nate and I have been working on tracing his name so I made a work sheet in which he traced the dotted letters every day. I traced the dots on the left side of the paper in order to reinforce the concepts such as starting at the top to form the letters, writing left to right, etc. and he traced the right hand column. He did a great job and you can see the improvements he made as he practiced. We have a routine after school we come home and eat our snack and then write our name. After that we do what he wants to do whether it be go outside, color, play with trains, etc. 

Today after he traced his name I asked him to give a shot at copying it with no dots. He did a great job! In the picture above you can see where he wrote his name once and in the bottom picture I helped him with the 'a'. He did very well. I did coach him to start at the top and prompted what to do (ex. draw a straight line down for your 't'.) but as far as moving his hands, it was all him!!  

He is so cute. I always tell him to take his time and stay on the line and give him a lot of positive feedback when he does so. Today when I was tracing my letters he kept telling me to take my time and stay on the line and was telling me "good job!" and "yay, Miss Suzi is taking her time!". I love that munchkin!