She helped pack her lunch in her really cool lunch bag - it has a black handle and a pink leopard print. Oversized to fit sandwiches and bulky things. She chose to have a tuna fish sandwich, cookies (the 100 calorie pack), yogurt and some doritos. A mix of healthy and not so healthy. Perfect lunch! She'll eat at 12:30 each day. I just have to figure out what to send with her for a snack! They'll do morning snack sometime around 10am or so.
Madi picked out her outfit for the first day - capris with a pink/white shirt. And set out her backpack by the back door. We read in that book - Children: the Challenge - and another article I read somewhere that agreed with it, that we should help children figure out how to do things for themselves and give them the tools to do it. One of the articles talked about how parents nag and nag their kids to get dressed, eat breakfast, and so on and that the parents end up very frustrated while the kids just do it on their time. So they recommend a checklist that the child has to complete in time to leave when the parent needs to leave. For us, we need to be leaving the house at 6:45am so the girls need to all be ready by 6:40am. Madi did awesome with this last week - though we didn't do the checklist. Just had her set out her clothes and grab her breakfast.
Jeremy printed out the checklist for her. There is one upstairs and one downstairs. She has to complete the first four items before coming downstairs and check them off as she does them. Once downstairs, she has to check off the last four items before 6:40am. If there is extra time, then she can sit and watch tv. Or just hang out in the kitchen.
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| Jeremy gave it the long, awesome title! |
Her alarm is set for 6:00am and she is taking showers at night so her morning steps aren't big tasks. One of the reasons we're doing this is so that all we have to ask is "Have you checked off all your boxes?" and if she asks what else she needs to do, we can say "Check your list." Gives her the responsibility and helps us to not have to hound her to get her moving in the morning. The consequence is that if things aren't done by 6:40am, she has to go to bed earlier than 8pm and wake up 10 minutes earlier. Not something she'll want to do! Or something we're hoping to have to do! She's been doing awesome about waking up and getting ready.
Today Jeremy took Riley and Madi to church. I stayed home with Jules as she's fighting a nasty sinus thing and wouldn't have been taken into the nursery with the stuff coming out her nose. Ew... They had a great time. This afternoon was very low key. Madi even took a short nap today because she was so tired. Jeremy hung the new horse picture above her bed. Looks great!
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| Madi was talking and wanted to see how her face would turn out if she kept talking while I took the picture. hahahaha |
Madi worked on her cowl on the loom and it's looking great! Played Pocket Legends for a little while with Jeremy. Was a really good day. She took some more pics of her room:
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| A picture she drew |
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| Her desk |
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| American Girl Doll |
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| Neigh!! |
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| Dry erase boards |
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| Each board says "me and mom, me and dad..." We need to get some pics printed of you guys to put in them. |
Tonight we read Matthew 11 and started a book she's read before from the Left Behind Series for kids. Prayed for her day tomorrow in particular. Then we turned out the lights. She told me that it's getting so easy to fall asleep on her own and that it's kind of nice.
Let us know if Saturday would be a good day to call and if so, if morning or night works better. We'll be leaving early in the morning and returning home late each day (I have meetings every night except tomorrow and Thursday).
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