Friday, January 12, 2018

Project Life - Week 1

Welcome to Project Life 2018! If you are new to my blog, welcome! I hope you will stay a while. I'm Jessica, wife to Juan, mommy to 6 year old Maddie. I am also an electrical engineer by day and I am participating in Project Life, a different way to record our lives by taking one photo a day. This was inspired by the fabulous Becky Higgins.

I missed posting most of last year and am determined to do better this year!


And finally, my POTW (pictures of the week) - 

Monday - Just an easy day of Scrappin', not anything too excited happening. We intended to take down the Christmas decorations, but decided to be lazy instead. Maddie talked to Nana via skype and told her that she must be a really good girl, because she has "literally" NEVER had coal in her stocking! I love her!

Tuesday - Maddie is out of school through tomorrow, so she has been digging into her Lego Ninjago Lego set, "Temple of the Ultimate Weapon". It is for ages 9-14 and has 1403 pieces. She's already finished the guard dogs and it building it completely on her own. She also played a lot with the Osmo Pizza Kitchen that Aunt Shanny got her for Christmas. She is just learning to subtract and working with money is really helping her. Finally, Maddie asked Santa for a "real ice cream maker that makes real ice cream." She received a Yaylabs SoftShell Ice Cream Ball from Santa and has been begging to use it since Christmas morning. You put all the ingredients on one side and ice/rock salt in the other and then roll it around for 20 minutes and you have ice cream! It worked pretty well, except next time we'll do it outside as it did leak all over the house.







Wednesday - We read to Maddie every night, but since she started Kindergarten she is supposed to read 20 minutes a day. We usually try and have her read to us at night or we read every other page. She is reading Level 1 Readers, but she can read most of the Dr. Seuss books and many others. She is great at sounding out words and we've seen huge progression in the last 2 months.



Thursday - More time working on her legos today. She received a ring pop at school for reading 20 minutes 12 times over winter break, she was very excited about that. More reading tonight with Daddy. She received a ton of books for Christmas and loves all of the Mo Willems books with the pigeon. 




Friday - Today was Maddie's 6 year well baby exam with Dr. Bourland. Maddie had her cracking up as she answered the doctors questions. She is a talkative little thing. She weighs 68.8 lbs and is 50" tall, BMI 19.26.  She is still off the charts in all stats, but growing proportional, so the doctor isn't worried. Her hearing and vision is great. She of course wanted to try all the instruments and listen to Dr. Bourland's heart. Dr. Bourland said, "She looks great, perfect angel, budding doctor!" She didn't need any vaccines, but we decided to give her the flu shot. Maddie tried to run away, hid under the table, had to be held down by both Daddy, myself and the nurse, and she screamed at the top of her lungs. The funny thing was she didn't even feel it. When it was over she said, "what?" She said she didn't even feel it and that she thought it was going to hurt a lot. I told her to remember that for next year because she completely overreacted. Maddie also told the doctor that her re-flux was much better and it hadn't happened for a long, long time. We took Maddie to get Gelato after her Dr. visit.




Saturday - Maddie attended Kylie's 6th birthday party at the Little Lakewood Salon today. Each of the girls got their hair done, eyeshadow makeup applied and played in the playroom. Maddie had a great time with her friends.









Sunday - My girl has an awesome imagination. She came downstairs dressed up today. I'm not sure what she was dressed up as, but she had a blast fighting aliens. Later she came down in her gymnastics leotard, Daddy's underwear, and a headband. I asked her where she got those "shorts" and she said they were in her drawer. She didn't have any idea they were Daddy's. When I asked her if she was getting ready to exercise, she said, "No, I'm getting ready for my karate practice!"



Have a wonderful week!

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