{"id":13091,"date":"2018-10-22T10:27:51","date_gmt":"2018-10-22T15:27:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amadeusacademy.com\/family\/?p=13091"},"modified":"2018-10-22T10:32:24","modified_gmt":"2018-10-22T15:32:24","slug":"fall-break-check-now-back-to-our-normal-routine-check","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/?p=13091","title":{"rendered":"Fall Break = check! Now back to our normal routine = check!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I am disappointed… I was doing such a good job of getting on to post every (week) day and then this past week I wasn’t able to post on Thursday or Friday.\u00a0 Now part of that wasn’t actually my fault; for some reason it wouldn’t let me log into my admin panel (very strange).\u00a0 But today I’m back!<\/p>\n

But it’s probably for the best.\u00a0 We ended up being crazy busy over the past 5 days.\u00a0 They had Wed-Fri off from school, but I still had lessons, so that makes for some hectic days.\u00a0 Then on Saturday we laid low and Tim did some work around the house (like installing a new light in the entry way–it looks AMAZING by the way!!\u00a0 I’m so lucky to have such a handy hubby!) and then Sunday we had church and football friends over then family pictures and swimming lessons.<\/p>\n

I did make an extra effort to make their days off from school special as well, so we had a bunch of little things in there:\u00a0 playdates, trip to the library, pizza and DQ in the van for lunch, trip to MOA (Mall of America), trips to the park, reading books with Chloe, making brownies, walking down to the haybales, and teaching Chloe how to make pigs in blankets (all by herself!).\u00a0 \u00a0After all that, though, I am\u00a0so<\/span> ready for a nice normal Monday.\u00a0 This morning was a little bit of a struggle to get everyone back into gear, but we made it out the door and even had time to spare at the bus stop.\u00a0 Boo-yah.<\/p>\n

Choe and I were big readers over break.\u00a0 We have now finished (ok, she’s just a couple chapters shy, but very close to finishing) 4 books now.\u00a0 We’ve read:\u00a0 Book Scavenger, Last in a Long Line of Rebels, Terrible Two, and Soar.\u00a0 Apparently we read the hardest one first, so the last 3 books have felt\u00a0 pretty easy in comparison.\u00a0 She still has 6 more to go, but I’m so proud of how she is doing. It’s definitely taking extra effort on my part to find time to read but it’s worth it to help encourage her.<\/p>\n

Josiah was also a big reader over break.\u00a0 I think he read at least 8 books.\u00a0 I’ll have to double check.\u00a0 He’s devouring those easy chapter books like a pro.\u00a0 He is “star of the week” this week.\u00a0 He was thrilled to present his poster to the class.\u00a0 I took a picture of it, although you probably won’t be able to read everything since the writing is pretty tiny.\u00a0 It was very important that he write everything himself on the poster.\u00a0 You can tell that Chloe helped him color a bit.\u00a0 She maaaaaaay have gotten a little carried away…<\/p>\n

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Madison is having a bit of a tough time this morning, now that the Big Kids are back in school.\u00a0 She’s definitely a little more needy.\u00a0 She really liked having them home and having someone to play with her all the time. Her most favorite pastime these days is to find anything of Chloe’s to play with.\u00a0 The “off-limits” toys are definitely the most desirable.\u00a0 Ha!<\/p>\n

Levi is entering a new phase of playfulness. He’s starting to really develop a quirky, goofy disposition.\u00a0 His screaming has definitely gotten better, although he has nice epic tantrums still.\u00a0 I think that’s just part of being 2.\u00a0 \ud83d\ude09\u00a0 He wasn’t a huge fan of family pictures yesterday.\u00a0 When he is done with something, he is DONE.\u00a0 So, he was nice and sat through a few, but then he was done.\u00a0 There will probably be a few epic-ly (albeit humorous) bad pictures of him.\u00a0 Ha!\u00a0 I’m sure we’ll look back on those someday and laugh.<\/p>\n

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I am disappointed… I was doing such a good job of getting on to post every (week) day and then this past week I wasn’t able to post on Thursday or Friday.\u00a0 Now part of that wasn’t actually my fault; for some reason it wouldn’t let me log into my admin panel (very strange).\u00a0 But […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13091"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13091"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13102,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13091\/revisions\/13102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}