i got new crocs for myself in the garden. at first i bought some drab khaki-colored ones, then had to exchange them for a different size. walking into a store emboldened me to get some bright blue ones, and i love them. apparently, so does ani, as she insisted on wearing them around after i showed them to her. the color struck me as funny and i had to post these photos side-by-side, after showing ani and nissa the photo first to explain why i was so amused:
a little later, the girls had been playing nicely on the bed on the ipad and i tried to jump in the shower. no sooner did i pull the shower curtain across, did ani walk in and say hi. i suggested she go back and play with nissa some more, but she insisted she watch me shower. "i see you!" she'd repeat as i bathed, laughing at the bubbles and trying to move aside the clear shower curtain. she even pulled up her stool to comfortably supervise. no amount of encouragement could dissuade her from watching me shower, she was too amused to see me in action. oh, ok.my watch-ability continued on tuesday when our toilet overflowed and i was cleaning up the "damage." the water was mostly cleared away, i was just mopping the floors to remove the ick factor. nissa insisted that she "loved" watching me mop, that it was the best thing ever. maybe because i don't mop very often, like maybe once every few years, was why this was so appealing? nissa carried on and on about how great it was to watch me mop. weird kid.
the highlight of the last few days was nissa reading from "go dog go." she has been reluctantly reading here and there, but frequently gets overwhelmed and frustrated. she gets it, and i know it, i just struggle with trying to get her over that "hump" and show her she's actually really good at reading. the three of us had been sitting on nissa's bed reading a bunch of stories before we started on "go dog go." nissa has heard the book a few times, but not enough to have it all memorized. she did some "sight word" work in preschool this year, so she is starting to recognize words as a whole, not just after sounding out the letters. on a whim, i just pointed to words and had nissa read them. she assumed a couple incorrectly, but i could count the times on one hand. she got all the way through 25 pages, which seems impressive (and is) but some pages only have a max of five words per page. only 35 more to go! i really played up my excitement after reading the rest of the pages myself and tried to get her excited, too. i think it worked and we'll be trying more again soon.
on a related note, i'm proud of myself for thinking up a new "game" for after dinner. we have a semi-habit of enjoying treats after dinner, so i decided to capitalize on it. we have long, narrow white boards with two sets handwriting guidelines on them, where i write a sentence about a treat. nissa has to copy the sentence then read it to me, and she is rewarded with the treat. apple cake is sweet. raspberries are red and bumpy. strawberries are not blue. watermelon is juicy. she actually enjoys it!
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