Accomplishments

Anna did her own hair yesterday. She used many barrettes. She was very proud of her hairdo. She also styled the hair of several My Little Ponies. I am hoping she will get better at doing her hair, and also choose a more socially appropriate number of barrettes, and this will end our long battle over her hair. She can do it herself, and I will be just fine with that! With Anna, we have learned that every little bit of independence she can gain reduces the amount of strife between us.
Jonathan made this space ship. He asked if we could take a picture of him with it so he could send it into the Lego magazine. I always tell him, you can make stuff just as good as these kids! I really appreciate that Lego selects entries that look like something a kid could actually make, and not an exact replica of the Empire State Building or something. So we submitted this photo! We will have to see.
Also, yesterday, for the first time, the kids worked together to clean the gerbil cage all by themselves! Very proud of them. That was definitely a big accomplishment! I couldn't do it because my neck was hurting... but the stench was starting to overwhelm us. So I decided to see if the kids could do it, and they could!
Biscuit almost accomplished a longstanding goal yesterday. I left the top of the cage off and he almost got one of the gerbils. I am not sure if he really wants to kill them, or what. I can't imagine a sweet little shi tzu like him being that vicious.
David got a lot accomplished yesterday. He finished the flooring in our bedroom! Like I said yesterday, now we just need to go get the baseboards and get those on. We can move all the furniture back to our bedroom. It will literally double our living area when that furniture goes back into our room. I will be much happier. All of this inappropriately placed and half- assembled furniture is making me really nervous. Plus we are keeping all of the flooring inside the house. So there are boxes of laminate and other materials taking up space. I feel like all of the stuff in our house is closing in on me...Anyways, focus, Jamie, FOCUS! I was trying to talk about our accomplishments!