See Through Egg Science Continued

Tuesday, May 25, 2010 4:25 PM Posted by The Cookie Cutter Diva 0 comments



After days of observing the egg a little at a time and adding more viniger to it and watching the egg shell slowly become see through.. today we took it out and examined how it looked and how you could see through it at the table and by holding it up in front of the window and letting the sun shine through it!



We discussed what happened and then we felt of it and how soft the shell had become.

And then we did the best part of the entire project! We squeezed the egg and SPLAT!!! Observed everything that was inside of the egg!!




The boys especially loved that part the most haha



Baby On The Go!!

Monday, May 24, 2010 4:31 PM Posted by The Cookie Cutter Diva 0 comments




I can't believe that it's that time already!! Our little Peyton is officially on the go at 5 months and 2 weeks!

She's been getting around by scooting around backwards on her belly since about 3 months on. She would just inch and inch back. She would scoot on her back when throwing a fit by kicking her legs so hard she was so mad and we thought that was crazy enough! The pediatrician thought we were crazy when we told him till he made her mad by messing with her at her 2 month check up and saw her try to do it on the table and was like wow she is one strong baby and especially for being so tiny!!

Then at her 4 month check up she showed him how she was scooting around backwards on her belly!

So she's been getting up on all four's for about 2 weeks now. Every since my husband left to NTC for training. I just knew she was going to sadly wind up crawling before he got back.. but that's how this wonderful military life goes sometimes..

And yesterday she's up on all fours and she takes one plunge forward with one knee and BOOM right on her face! Poor little girl! But that didn't keep her from going at all! She got up and went again! And again!!!

So we officially have a crawler! She will be off in no time around everywhere when she gets her hand coordination down a bit more!

So as exciting of a day as it was yesterday with that it was also a very bad day. I wound up going to the emergency room from having tingling down my left arm from my fingers through my shoulder. I had an SVT attack on Saturday night and was able to get it under control but had tingling off and on Sunday.

From the moment I woke up yesterday it was non stop. Then turned into a pain from my elbow up through my left side of my neck. Chest pain, shortness of breath, about to pass out. So I went in and everything checked out fine on the xray, EKG and blood work that I wasn't having a heart attack and he said the steps I'm doing at home during my SVT attacks are the right ones and just come in if they last longer then 30 minutes or get worse.

They said they think I may have something called sheehans that is developed from loosing to much blood and they think I developed it possibly after I gave birth to my 3rd child and lost so much blood with her and almost had a blood transfusion and that would be what was the onset for all of these problems.

He said I may possibly need to switch heard meds since I was still borderline for high blood pressure and my heart rate was still high but not alarmingly high. But he's leaving that up to my Dr at my appointment on Thursday. If I do have to switch I will no longer be able to breastfeed sadly. Which everyone knows how much that means to me and what a big thing it is so I'm sad thinking about it.

So I got discharged and started feeling better and we made it out for an ice cream play date at chick fil a last night. It was nice to get out and get some adult communication even if I was a little out of it!


Fun at the Dino Park

Friday, May 21, 2010 4:41 PM Posted by The Cookie Cutter Diva 0 comments






As my kids call it.. because it has a HUGE purple dinosaur you can walk through! One of their favorite parks but saddly never any kids there to play with so I try to go to the others more so they have more interaction with other kids! But I love this park. It's a lot of fun! We took a lot of really cute pictures out there. It was so beautiful and green and full of flowers!











The kids how ever weren't so happy about the sun being in their eyes while I tried to take pictures and Brooklyn was crying about it and Peyton was just in a bad mood so as good as the picture came out of the four of them I had to laugh with how two of them look so unhappy to be taking it haha




Splash Pad and Finger Painted Flags

Thursday, May 20, 2010 5:09 PM Posted by The Cookie Cutter Diva 0 comments



Today we had an early morning field trip to start off our day and met with a mom's group I'm in for an hour at the local splash pad! The kids always love to meet there and run free through the water and it was so beautiful today! Not to hot! Just nice, sunny, beautiful and a little breeze!



My two middle children didn't seem interested long at all today for some reason and about 20 minutes after getting there were ready to head home. But the oldest was having fun so Nana got them occupied at the park next door for a bit!






After we were done we grabbed a quick lunch and then headed home and they spent some time out in the pool swimming and then started our school day!





We did a lot of fun stuff today. Continued to examine our See Through Egg project and for Art's and Craft's we made a Finger Painted Flag for fun!



What kid doesn't love finger paints?! So they each made a flag and then got to paint a few pictures of their own for fun!




I've been working with my oldest on learning how to write in cursive this week as well. This has sparked a big interest in him. He thinks it's so interesting how different some of the letters look and has been having fun learning the different lower case letters.

Puppet Shows

Wednesday, May 19, 2010 4:52 PM Posted by The Cookie Cutter Diva 0 comments


Yesterday we had a field trip to the library for our weekly storytime and picked up some new books and movies! The kids were very excited to be back in Lawton for the storytime in town here. There's something about the guy here that everyone seems to love and catches the kids attention!
They of course love the puppet show the most and always get a huge laugh out of that and have since just a few months old! My oldest is now 7 1/2 yrs old and has gone to storytime locally here since he was 2yrs old when we first moved back to Oklahoma. The other 3 have gone since birth as long as we have lived here or been in town!





When we got done at storytime we headed over to the mall just down the street and got a little play time in at their play area. We were hoping to schedule a playdate there today but most were not able to make it.

However we did run into some old friends from another playgroup as well as make some new ones! Joined back up in that group now that we are back in town to try to stay active as well!

We found some homeschool groups here but I'm dissapointed they don't seem very active at all. I'm hoping to find one that is more active like Texas was. I was really excited to be involved there and was hoping for the same here to get some older kids for my oldest during the day to have outtings with when we do field trips and to do some more educational type field trips as well.

See Through Egg Science and Craft Stick Flag

Tuesday, May 18, 2010 7:46 PM Posted by The Cookie Cutter Diva 0 comments


So yesterday I got in for my first appointment here since returning home and it went wonderful! I absolutely loved this Dr! He was very relaxed, kicked back, talked to me and listened to everything I had to say and chatted with me about off topic stuff as well! Then I find out that he's not my PCM after I left! So I went down and tried to switch to him to learn he's at capacity and went to patient advocacy crying my story and how it was important I stay with the same Dr after all these test were done too and he pushed me through to be seen by him! Yay! He said it was good I switched because my PCM was actually leaving in a few weeks too!


So he sent me up to have an EKG done to see what's going on with my heart and ordered a heart monitor to be placed on me at home for longer monitoring. Did some blood work to check my thyroid levels and potassium levels now. Also put my referral in for ENT so I could get back up with the Dr that found my goiter and get the surgery scheduled. And the best part, finally diagnosed me with CVS.. the disease I've faught since I was a child but never could get answers for till my daughter was diagnosed from the SAME symptoms and put on meds for it! So he wrote me a script to get on meds for that and hopefully after 27yrs I have hope on that one too!


So today I get my blood results back and potassium was completely fine but my thyroid was really high so we are switching my meds as that will need stabilized again before surgery. Also put a referral in with a thyroid specialist.

So I got a lot done the last two days between that and also getting my WIC finally switched over and getting a breast pump to start the process to build a stash hopefully for surgery!

Today we learned about Jonah and the Whale for our devotional time and for Science



See Through Egg Science



What You Need:

A raw chicken egg in it's shell

white vinegar

clear glass jar
turkey baster


What To Do:

Have your child carefully place the raw egg in the glass jar.

Poor vinegar over egg until it's completely submerged.

Cover the jar and observe. Talk to your child about what's happening inside the jar. What can she see? Do you see bubbles forming? What does she think might be happening?

Explain to your child that the bubbles she see's in the jar is caused by the vinegar dissolving the egg shell. The vinegar eats away at it. Ask her what she thinks will happen if you let it continue to eat away at it.

Place the jar in the refrigerator and observe for 24 hours.

After 24 hours remove the jar from the fridge and remove the old vinegar. Be careful not to poke or bump the egg.

After the old vinegar is removed place fresh vinegar in the jar and place back in the refrigerator for 24 hours.

Continue this till the egg shell is see through.

Once the egg shell is see through gently remove the egg. You can see the insides of the egg which is held in by the membrane. Ask your child why she thinks the membrane is helpful to the chick growing inside. Explain how it keeps out dirt and germs.

Encourage your child to examine the egg shell now egg less. What does she see?

Let your child now gently hold the egg in their hand over a sink and gently give a squeeze and the egg will explode! Does it feel squishy like a pillow?





Then for music we listened to some songs such as This Land is My Land and God Bless America while we did a craft in honor of Memorial Day next week.



Craft Flag Stick





Supplies Needed:


9 craft sticks

red and white acrylic paint

brushes

glue

blue construction paper

white crayon


Paint 5 craft sticks red and 4 white. Let them dry.

Glue them together in an altering pattern and two broken craft sticks on the side and the middle.

While drying cut a square out of the blue construction paper and have child draw white starts or specs on the square.


When the glue has set turn the flag over, glue the blue square on the left side and a long craft stick on the side.

Now you have a little flag to celebrate with!



We also made a new friend today! Keagan found a caterpillar and made it's day with ONE BIG APPLE all for one LITTLE worm! hehe

Oklahoma Bound

Sunday, May 16, 2010 7:31 PM Posted by The Cookie Cutter Diva 0 comments



Well we made it safe and sound to Oklahoma and officially relocated home during my husbands training and deployment!


I know different people have different opinions on rather you should go home during deployments and I normally am one that thinks it's really better to just stay at home and hold down the home front when they are gone instead of uprooting the kids and the family and starting all over in a lot of ways but I also see a lot of benefits of it for a lot of people. Just for me in the past I hadn't come home for the deployments in the past but the last deployment I came home and don't think that was a bad choice and don't regret it but it was definitely hard moving home after being on my own for so long. Being used to sharing space with someone, not having the entire house to myself, my parents unfortunately don't have a back yard so I had to go out a lot more to get the kids out door time else where to make sure they stayed active and it was definitely a little stressful for them getting used to years with no kids and then all of these kids coming in. So I wound up going back to Texas before deployment was over and enjoyed my time back on my own and didn't think I would attempt moving home again.


But here we go, yet another deployment and as the time came closer I found more and more reasons to why I should come back home and making me think about it again. But the biggest kicker was my health and the recent things going on and not having much choice if I wanted to get the ball rolling and get things taken care of I knew the drs here would do it and not put me off like they were there. I think the fact I "need" my mothers help more then just moving in for convenience has made me appreciate it a lot more. I've noticed even on visits home the last year that I appreciate things she does a lot more and I think she appreciates us being here more because she realizes how far we are and how much she missed when we were gone.


I don't care for a lot of things in our home town but I miss some of my friends of course but really miss the family and them missing out on the kids as they grow up so it's nice to have this time to share with them while my husband is away. Like a bitter sweet trade off.






The kids got their first swim of the year in at my parents house (aside from the lake)! I don't know how they swim in that cold water but I remember swimming so much earlier then May when I was a child! Around March or April sometimes! It's amazing how our tolerance changes as adults!

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