The Dodge Family Blog

Aiden has a hard time focusing on homework. I think he might have ADD because he can’t focus for long at all.  He is having a hard time with math, and reading.  He is getting better at reading. There is a website that helps kids learn to read through games and interaction. It is called starfall.com I recomend it. On the site there is a snowman game that Aiden plays all the time. At the beginning someone says, ow sometimes sounds like O.  Aiden has played it so much that that saying in stuck in my head.  Today I was working on sight words with Aiden, James was there, one of the words was bowl and Aiden didn’t know it.  I tell him to sound it out, he wasn’t doing a good job at it and so I gave him a hint. Remember that game, sometimes ow sounds like what. James blurts out really quickley O.  Aiden was still trying to figure it out. James is a smart cookie. I hope he has a better time with school then Aiden is having!

I am learning to appreciate the good old days when I could do housework. It is so hard now with the big belly and Glen living on my bladder. I will never complain again about cleaning the house when I am healthy! 31 days to go!

Last night Mike told me and the kids to pick a number between 1 and 30. I chose 15 James chose 30, and Aiden chose 1, then he told us that that was our guess on when the baby will come. After Mike told me the reason for the numbers I changed mine to 25. Aim high I always say. So at game night we took down everyone’s guess. If you want to join the fun let us know quick because you never know with me. Both kids have come early! The closest one on the date gets a prize!

After four long days of Mike trying to pull Aidens tooth, it finally came out!  We were at the grocery store waiting at the checkout stand and pop, Aiden pulled it out all by himself! This is tooth number two. The tooth fairy came last night and gave Aiden a whole dollar!  He promptly lost it.  When he finnaly found it he gave it to me for safe keeping. Later today we will go buy some candy with it. He isn’t much into saving yet.

I am still very tired all the time. It is so hard to sleep when you have little ones running around all over the place.  I am just waiting not so patiently for this baby to come out. I have decided that for the next one we are going to hire a surrogate mother from india. They need the money and I don’t want to be pregnant again!  It’s a win win situation.  Mike isn’t going for that idea yet, but he will (ha ha ha, evil laugh,)

sorry it has been so long in writing,  We have some new family pictures we need to show you all but, I don’t really know how to do it yet so Mike is going to have to do that.

I can’t wait till I can bend over again!