Seth is still a super handful. He wants to do screen time all the time. I set up an account for each kid on the computer and can set time limits and when they are allowed to have time. He gets 30 minutes a day most days. It is the highlight of his life. It has reduced the amount of whining, but boy, he still loves to whine about it a lot. I recently told him he needs to have something else in his life that makes him happy besides screens and he told me "comic books". He also spends a lot of time looking at comic books (and subsequently leaving them littered all over the office and stairs. It's amazing how many comic books he loves to look through. ... When it's cold outside and Andrew isn't around, that is about all he likes to do. If I'm lucky, I can read to him (which he also enjoys) or he will do reading lessons on the computer or he will read to me. We got some fun books from the library where I read some of the book and he reads some of the book. He really is starting to like reading ... on his own terms, of course. He loves to read Elephant and Piggie books and Fly Guys. It's hard to tell how much is memorization and how much is reading, but I know he is doing a lot of reading. He's a little quick to guess, but I think that is about right for his level.
Thankfully, it is warming up and Seth loves to help me garden. He loves to look at the daffodils or check and see if the tulips are growing yet and is quite good at carefully planting seeds and watering the plants. He also loves to play on the playground and on his scooter and is ready for Katsu to teach him to ride his bike without training wheels. He also loves to play army/trio/lincoln logs/etc. with Andrew. And sometimes he likes to play with Logan.
His new favorite thing to play with is Snap Circuits. We got it for Christmas and really opened it up when Katsu was out of town and now Seth is always asking me if he can do his "experiments". It is so cute to hear the boys talking about resistors and switches. So fun!
We registered Seth for kindergarten. I feel comfortable that they will know how to deal with Seth without him being too bored. They can deal with kids who are already reading, so that's good. Honestly, Seth is probably more on a 1st grade level - he is doing addition and subtraction on his own at home, too, but my main goal is just that he won't be bored and he will want to go to school.
Seth still whines and complains about going to preschool sometimes. Every now and then there are still days where he refuses to go, but I don't budge and eventually he will go. He really needs to go just to get some more experiences in his life and I know he enjoys it. He has fun with his friends, loves to run around on the playground, does great on all the activities and loves to sing. His teacher says that he has exceptional behavior (not really the kind of behavior he has at home) and he has started to read in his class (which amazes the other kids). He was getting a little bored, so his teacher (who is awesome) has started to bring in some extra things for him to do - harder puzzles and activities.
He LOVES soccer (and wanted to sign up for baseball, too, which starts next month). He is really good and fast, even though he is probably the littlest kid on the team. He makes several goals each game and is just jumping around like a little jumping bean the whole time because he is so excited.
Fun Things This Month
~ February ~
- Super Bowl - snacks and fun with the family
- Setsubun - Seth LOVED throwing jelly beans at Dad and had so much fun. He was throwing them a little too hard, I think. Next year, he wants to really hurt the Oni (oh, no!)
- Puppet Lady at Jarvis - okay, we were not very impressed with the show. The lady was kind of weird and it was all about germs (and kind of gross). Seth was most interested in getting snacks. They were disappointed we didn't buy chic-fil-a. I guess for next time.
- Lowes - Seth went with Katsu to build a love note holder. Seth really liked the hammering. Physical stuff is best for this age.
- Lots of cold weather and lots of missed preschool days and snow days and fun.
- Valentine's Day - Seth enjoyed the little treats and valentines' in the morning, but spent most of the time having a huge fit because he didn't get the big box of chocolates that Katsu got. He seemed to have fun at his Valentine's party, but wouldn't tell us anything about it. Even though he brought home a big bag, he told us he didn't get any valentines and hid them all and then would bring out the candy in pieces over the next couple weeks. I kept finding toys and wrappers for ever!
- Working on the garden.
~ March ~
- Another season of soccer started. As I said, Seth loves it! His coach is really great (and from the other ward - he knew us). I love how non-competitive it is, but he played against a team with a really crazy coach last week that screamed at the kids the whole time. Glad we have a great coach.
- Katsu was out of town for a week, but Seth let a friend take him to preschool and went willingly. Yay!
- Dental health day at preschool - our friend (who is in dental school) came in and showed the kids about brushing their teeth.
- Grandma and Grandpa came in town. Katsu picked Seth up from preschool and they had a little date and then went to his work - we all came and picked Seth up and toured Katsu's work before coming home. He took a day off of school to hang out with them. And of course, we went and ate at the Chinese buffet. On Thursday, we drove to New Bern and stopped there (mostly to take a break), but we ended up walking around and trying to see all the bears. Seth had quite a bit of fun. It was fun, but very cold! We also stopped to see where they made Pepsi, when to the Cow Cafe place, and played at the pirate playground at the history museum. After that, Seth was ready to go home, but we convinced him that the aquarium would be fun - he really eneded up enjoying it.Then, we drove to Pine Knolls and went to the Aquarium. Andrew really loved it. The crazy part was when a shark suddenly attacked a fish. The boys were mesmerized! He didn't die (at least not then), but he had a big chunk out of him. They also got shells and got to touch sting rays and other sea animals. It was pretty cool. They also got to play at Chic-Fil-A for lunch which was fun. Grandpa was sick the rest of week, so we didn't get a chance to do anything else fun much. On Saturday, we went to the St. Patrick's Day parade which was really fun (and we got to stand next to Seth's friends from church) and Seth had a soccer game that he went to with Katsu.
- St. Patrick's Day was chill - just a simple cabbage and bacon soup and Irish soda bread and green pudding. The boys loved it. Seth was so excited to mix the food coloring to make the pudding.
- Kid's Fest - we went to the convention center - Seth was super excited about the free book and trying to score candy from all the booths. He also won a special egg at one booth for doing well on the bean bag toss. Plus, we found out we won a free birthday party! That should be fun for both boys to have a joint birthday party on Andrew's birthday.
- Career day at preschool. Katsu came to talk about being a scientist. The kids all loved the dry ice and it was fun to see all the other careers that were there, too.
- Luckily, soccer was cancelled this Saturday from all the rain, so we got to spend 3 or more hours at the ECU youth arts festival. It was AMAZING. They had art projects going on in probably 50 rooms in an ECU building, plus performers. Each room had like 3 art projects. Some where kind of small, but some were super involved - pottery, making wax patterns on cloth and then painting it, painting on silk. The boys had SO much fun. We grabbed a dinner out afterwards because we were so tired and hadn't eaten.
- Parent teacher conference. Seth is doing wonderful, of course!
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