The Rest of D Week

sorry it has taken me so long to post, but half way through last week my son caught the very scary reparatory virus that is spreading so quickly.  I took him into the doctors right away where he was put on a steroid and an inhaler.  There were still many times I was on the brink of taking him into the ER to be put on a respirator, but luckily, we were able to manage it and he has now made a full recovery, but due to this, D week took us two weeks to do as we took a break while my son was ill. Here is what we did to finish off D week:

Making a duck out of the letter D

Making a dog out of the letter D

D animals memory game

Making old fashioned donuts!

Sure did look yummy, but sadly my son didn't like them.

 Look at that D

D for dots

D for diamonds!

Digging deep in the dirt with diggers to find dinosaurs and dragons!

What is D week with out Dipping Dots?!

 Dancing to our drums,,,

 Decorated with dinosaurs

D week days 1 and 2

So D week started off full force:

Monday: Dinosaur day
Practicing the Letter D after we read a fun story about D the dancing Dinosaur.

We then put dots on D the dinosaur

 and then made D dance

 Dinosaur puzzle

Making a dinosaur out of the letter D

More practice with writing the letter D

Finished the day by watching the Land Before Time

Tuesday: Dorian Day
as always we started the day by practicing writing the letter D

We feed Dorian donuts!

Decorated donuts

then painted a special D canvas for Dorian's room with his special letter D

A little more about me

I know I have been good about posting preschool stuff and not so great about updating things going on in my life.  I guess I have been trying to ignore everything as things seem to be moving very quickly.  I know a while back I mentioned that I was seeing a doctor about back and leg pain I have dealt with ever since the car accident and surgeries ten years ago.  The doctor I was seeing essentially said my pain and injuries were outside her scope and there was nothing more she could do for me. I appreciated her honestly and her making sure I was able to get the information needed to another doctor:

After meeting with the second doctor, many things were confirmed.  Basically, there are two probabilities:1. I have severe nerve damage; meaning either a pinched or damaged nerve(s) or 2. having my spinal column suffer 60-70% damage during the accident and L1 shatter, my pain very well may be residual affects of spinal injury.  I am blessed to be alive and walking, but my spinal column was seriously damaged and I may still be (and forever be) experiencing pain from that.  Both doctors agreed that I needed x-rays and MRIs done to ensure the four pounds of hardware in my back are in no way damaging or making situations worse.  until then, I have been given A LOT of medication.  I am most excited about the nerve medicine as that is where I hope the problem lies and if this medication can help me manage this pain, then I will be elated.  I was also given muscle relaxants, pain pills, anti inflammatory cream and lidocaine patches in a hope to find relief and find what works and what does not in an attempt to help locate the source of the problem. 

For years I have suffered with this pain, with promises from the doctors that it would get better.  Give it time.  Let my body heal.  Loose the weight.  Loose the volume of breast. Wear different shoes. Well I have done it all and my road had run out.  I always looked down at having to take medication for pain and instead buried within myself and pushed through it.  Situations are different now.  I am a full time, single mom.  24-7 I am in charge of my 1 and 3 year old and my body is worn out.  There are still areas on my back and knee that just about kill me if they are touched and I feel like I am somehow failing when every time a storm rolls in it is TV time for the kids just so I can sit on my heat pad.  It is getting to the point, that since I never have the break I need to recharge my mind and rest my body, my ailments are cutting into what I can accomplish on a day to day basis.  This is why I began seeing a doctor again after so long and it feels good to have the validation that this pain is real, it is serious and I am doing great considering.  I am learning to be okay with taking medicine when I need it and recognizing when it is okay to hurt a little and when to take medication because I don't have to hurt. 

C week!

C week has been a blast, might go back to posting daily as it takes forever foe all these pictures to load.  As always, I am astonished at how much the kids are retaining and how much fun we end up having.


Monday: I started off with introducing the letter C, with C the caterpillar

My sin tracing over the letter C I made out of leaves

 My son putting the letters in order as we reviewed

My son is still writing with both hands, I am so very impressed

We then made our own caterpillar, making the letter C out of circles!

We then read The Very Hungry Caterpillar

We finished the day by crawling like caterpillars

 Tuesday: Cookie day. My son does his worksheet and circles all the c

The kids then took turns feeding Cookie Monster his cookies

Of course, we then had to make our own cookies.

While the cookie baked, we did a little scavenger hunt where my son blew out all the candles (abt 8 of them purchased from the dollar store) and labeled everything that starts with C

Our C cookie!

 Wednesday: C animal day

I purchased a very small cow for $.50 at some store and used it as a game.  I would hide it in plain site and my son would find it.  I would make the c sound c, c, c, c getting louder when he got close until the c, c, cow was found.

 Thursday: we colored cakes with frosting

then we built castles with sugar cubes. We all had a lot of fun this day!

My son was very proud of his work.

Friday: we had a story about coconuts and hung our coconuts on the tree.

 C, c, c, cars!

 Cleaning cars at the carwash!

Then to finish off the week we played candy land!

As always we had such a blast.  Already excited and ready for D week!