Making the best of May

 Claire

We have been having some fun times this week while she has been using her imagination to come up with some new games. She was working really hard to try to make something out of all their backyard toys and I helped a little to make them a house. They've now played with it 3 days in a row and Chris calls it their homeless encampment because of the shopping carts. We also had a lot of fun playing with our sprinklers in the sun this week and Claire started trying to control where the water went by putting things on top of it. Our routine every day that she is great at remembering is 1. we eat, 2. homework, and 3. tablet time. Where I'm trying to limit the tablet time to only an hour each time and soon will be able to get three homework practicing in. I have her writing a book, practicing the sight words, and the next I hope to figure out maybe reading a book soon when she gets better at reading.

Shay

Whenever we do sprinklers, Shay never likes running through them, but loves to play with the mud that it makes...super fun. I'm trying to teach her not to put dirt and leaves in her hair and telling her that if she wants to be Elsa, she can't be dirty because princesses aren't dirty. When we did our nails this week she picked blue and now I'm ruined at making them match me because Claire will always choose pink and Shay will always choose blue. Why must they grow up? She is getting more and more stubborn and willful and we have to work on teaching her how to be mad without screaming or throwing a tantrum. I'm usually the one that can reason with her where it isn't exactly reasoning, more like being stronger-willed and outlasting her tantrum. I've debated just ignoring her to see if it will help her in the future, but having her meltdown around others is stressful. They spent some time with Nana Kathy when Chris and I went to the temple and I heard about some of the tantrums she threw for her too. Luckily most people understand the craziness that comes with having kids.