A Much Needed Post

I haven't posted in way too long. It has been very busy around here. School has been really busy and I feel like I am constantly trying to reinvent ways to turn the wheel to keep it interesting. I have decided to pull in some of my added school materials for reading to help out with the 6th grade vocab reinforcement. I just really feel the biggest reason some of my kids have difficulties is because they don't have the extended vocabulary of their peers. So I am on the vocab beefing up rampage! Okay, enough school talk.
I guess the biggest reason we have been so busy is because we have decided to move into Dan's parent's house in order to save some money for house down payment/car/etc. in the hopes that I will be finding a full time teaching position this coming fall. So we are remodeling the downstairs basement, which is actually it's own apartment, so just needs things like paint, ceiling tile, etc. No one ever told me how much work all of this would be. With having spent every weekend for a month over there, I'm hoping Aidie is adjusting well. Fortunately, Kathy wanted to remodel anyway. So it is actually good for all of us.
As for Aidie, she is doing fantastic. We are almost to the end of another prescription for yet another ear infection. But she has been great. I think her teeth are the real culprits. I can actually see her eye teeth under her gums, but they refuse to push out the rest of the way. I just wish they would get it over with. She is chewing on things more than when she was a baby, baby. She must really be in a lot of pain.
Right now Aiden LOVES Winnie the Pooh. I have a tendency to call everyone, including her, "honey" (Thanks Mamaw Champlin!). So every time I call her that she says "HONEY! POOH!" and immediately wants to read a Pooh Bear book or watch a Pooh Bear movie. It is pretty adorable. She has also recently adopted into her heart a stuffed bear from Uncle Matt that she has affectionately called "Momo". She takes him everywhere. And honestly, I can't blame her. That bear is dang soft!
Aidie has started to use pronouns a lot lately. I'm actually really impressed because I didn't work with these at all. "me" "you" "we". I'm very proud.
Aidie loves to use silly talk. Aidie dictionary:
Noni= no
Dado= Daddy
Mommio= Mommy
And there are many more in there that she uses because she thinks they're silly or because she can't say the letters to make up the real words (Ie. Caina is nanny. She can't say the hard C or long A). She refers to herself as Addie.
She LOVES to dance. I think she would sway, spin, twinkle fingers and toes and shake her tushie all day. It's too funny!
So many fun things and OH! We went sledding for the first time this past weekend. Everything is now WHEE!!! I LOVE BEING A MOM! Will have to post pics later. Now time for bed.