Riley and Avery

Oh, I caught Rudi watching telenovellas. He said that he watches them a lot. Add that to Jerry Springer, and he's your mainstream housewife.

So even though I already told everyone of the futility of Riley's Occupational therapy appointment, I'll post about it anyway. It was a waste of my time. Totally. I am brushing Riley as frequently as I can, but she thinks it's a game. And then Avery wants to be brushed, and then Avery wants to brush her baby dolls. After she's done brushing her baby, I can never find the brush. Argh. So after asking me questions, the woman at the therapy place proceeded to test Riley's fine motor skills. Which is not anywhere near my area of concern. She can draw pretty intricately, tie her shoes, and write legibly when she tries. So, whatever...

It's snowing tonight and has been all day. Which throws a huge monkey-wrench in my whole give-the-kids-bikes-for-Easter-so-they-can-ride-them-all-day plan. Of course.

Riley read her first book the other day. All by herself. We had just gotten the book set (BOB books) from her school book order, so I had never read it to her. It was really simple, only about seven different letters and one sight word ("on" which I did have to help her with). It basically went "Mat sat. Sam sat. Mat sat on Sam. Sam sat on Mat. Sad Sam. Sad Mat. Mat sat. Sam sat." She was really pleased with herself. The first letters her school teaches are a, b, c, m, s, t, so those are all that she needed to read the book. It's great motivation to not have to know all of the possible letter sounds before being able to read something. Anyway, I highly recommend these books. They introduce one or two letters at a time and the pictures aren't distracting. I'm pretty sure that any child vaguely familiar with the alphabet could read them. Very motivating!

Hmmmm...what else? Rudi is sick with a cold. He thought that the had the Flu, but the doc gave him an inhaler and a decongestant. It's nothing that he couldn't get over on his own, but Rudi likes medicine. He does have pretty nasty cough and I know he's miserable. All I can do is make him chamomile tea as often as he'll drink it.

So, I'm COMPLETELY retarded. I was trying to go through and get rid of all the programs on the computer that I'm not using, particularly since it came with a lot of game demos. I delete iDVD because I don't think I use it. WRONG!! As I'm trying to burn photos onto a disk, I can't do it because not only did I put iDVD in the trash, I emptied the trash! Well, if you're going to screw up, at least do it well, right? So now I can't find my iLife disk (surprise surprise) and I'm stuck. I was really making head-way in getting the 1500 3MB pictures off of iPhoto. Poo and double-poo.

The camera batteries are recharging in anticipation for Easter morning, so no photos today. Oh, wait, I'll pull some off of iPhoto...