Poem Bouncy Balls

Random poem/song I came up with while playing with Edmund:

Bouncy Balls

Sign a song of bouncy balls.
They are everywhere:
All over the carpet,
Underneath my hair.

Edmund loves the bouncy balls;
Loves to dump them out.
He asks for them everyday,
And spreads them all about.

To the tune of Sing a song of six pence

kids journal prompts

If you or family is having trouble journaling, try some prompts. Also try drawing pictures to go with what you're writing about. It is also good just to free write even if it's just writing silly stuff and not actually recording what you have been doing with your life.


My name is




I live in




My address is




I am           years old.


I am awesome!














!
I want to learn:

1.


2.


3.


4.




These are my pajamas:



















Doodle of the day:












How to clean your room
1.

2.

3.

4.




The most delicious pizza needs to have










The hungriest person I know








The smartest person I know








The bravest person I know








The                          person I know








I'm grateful for

















I wish I could change

















Where I'm sitting:













From here I can see





















Dear                         ,












                                        Love,




If I was face to face with a wild animal I would...

















When I'm at the beach,


















If                                        could talk,
















Hot                                Cold













A mystery:





















A dream:















A secret:



















I like it best when...
















I used to...




but now I...













I wish...






I will...




only if...






No one should ever in his/her wildest dreams...
















Never say...











Once in a great while, I get to...











The last time I...

Book recommendations for parenting

Here are some books that I recommend that are available from the Greater Phoenix Digital Library. You just need a library card with a pin to one of the local libraries.



Secrets of the Baby Whisperer by Tracy Hogg
Unfortunately this one is only available as an audiobook.



The Diaper-Free Baby by Christine Gross-Loh
I only found this recently, so I haven't really tried it with my baby yet.



Love and Logic for Early Childhood by Jim Fay
I haven't read this one yet, but I did like Parenting with Love and Logic by Foster Cline and Jim Fay (not available from the library).



What to Expect when You're Expecting and What to Expect the First Year and others by Heidi Murkoff
There are more of these books, but I've only read the first one so far.

Poem School

I like to use a sing song voice for this one kind of like the Fun song from Sponge Bob.

School

S is for summer vacation is over.
C is for citizenship.
H is for heaps of homework.
O is for outstanding grades.
O is for observing the rules and instructions.
L is for lots of learning.

Poems Haiku

They aren't really Haiku or even that good, but I was just messing around with the 5-7-5 syllable pattern one morning when I couldn't sleep. I decided to give them titles.


Reading

If the Braille bug bites
When you read in the darkness,
You can feel the words.


Crunch

When eating apples
Be prepared for the crunching;
Most like them crispy.


Begging

Eating bananas?
Prepare to share with babies;
They love bananas.


Thomas

Sit in a window.
Watch out for little fingers;
Do not ever harm.


Knick Knacks

Sitting on a shelf,
But I'm not a Christmas elf:
Forgotten treasure.

Scripture Mastery fill in the blank 2

I need to make more of these for family home evening activities.

2 Nephi 32: 8-9

8 And now, my beloved brethren, I perceive that ye ___________________ still in your hearts; and it grieveth me that I must speak concerning this thing. For if ye would hearken unto the ______________ which teacheth a man to ______________, ye would know that ye must pray; for the evil spirit ______________________ not a man to pray, but teacheth him that he must not pray.

9 But behold, I say unto you that ye must pray __________________, and not faint; that ye must not perform any thing unto the _________________ save in the first place ye shall pray unto the Father in the name of Christ, that he will ______________________ thy performance unto thee, that thy performance may be for the ___________________ of thy soul.

Jacob 2:18-19

18 But before ye seek for ____________________, seek ye for the _________________ of God.

19 And after ye have obtained a _______________ in Christ ye shall obtain riches, if ye seek them; and ye will seek them for the ___________________ to do good—to clothe the naked, and to feed the hungry, and to liberate the captive, and administer __________________ to the sick and the afflicted.

Mosiah 2:17

And behold, I tell you these things that ye may learn ___________________; that ye may learn that when ye are in the ____________________ of your fellow ____________ ye are only in the service of your God.

Mosiah 3:19

For the natural _________ is an enemey to God, and has been from the _________ of Adam, and will be, forever and ever, unless he yields to the enticings of the ________________________________, and putteth off the natural man and becometh a saint through the ____________________ of Christ the Lord, and becometh as a ___________, submissive, meek, humble, patient, full of love, willing to submit to all things which the Lord seeth ________ to inflict upon him, even as a child doth submit to his _____________________.

Mosiah 4:30

But this much I can tell you, that if ye do not _________________ yourselves, and your thoughts, and your ______________, and your deets, and observe the commandments of God, and __________________ in the faith of what ye have heard concerning the coming of our Lord, even unto the end of your ________________, ye must perish. And now, O man, ____________________, and perish not.

Fast Sunday

Well, I guess I'm one of those few people who happen to love fast Sunday. However, I haven't been able to fast for like a year and a half counting the time I was pregnant and now am still nursing. This results in me missing fasting quite a bit. I miss getting to forgo food and spend that time on more spiritual things. I can't remember missing a fast Sunday since I was like eight, but maybe my memory's just faulty. I only remember having a snack before dinner the first time I was fasting, but then I felt bad for eating when everyone else was waiting so I didn't do that again. I even was fasting when I was in France and that was the day we were scheduled to visit Le Mont Saint Michel so I couldn't go to church because we were going to an abbey instead.
I guess maybe fasting is harder for some people than others, because for years of primary and young women's and in the singles ward, and now in my own family, I couldn't figure out why everyone was so crabby and complaining so much. I guess it mostly bothers me this much to hear everyone's complaints about something they "have to do" that I would love to do but can't do until Edmund is completely weened or maybe once he's down to only nursing once a day. I guess a lot of people just spend the day in bed because they feel they have no energy since they didn't have any food, but I wish I could do more of the hour long scripture studying or the journaling I used to do instead of eating. Now I have to fit it in when I can, usually when Edmund's napping. 

In trying to make sure I had spelled forgo right I discovered that forego and forgo are two different words.