La primera plantita y Miss Spider

Ayer fuimos al vivero a comprar unas plantas con la Abuela :) y resulta que ahora Nick es el orgulloso dueño de su primera planta!!!! es el mas feliz del mundo!! la puso en su recamara junto a su librero y cada 2 minutos me pregunta si ya la puede regar jajajaja!! Creo que es bonito el darles estas responsabilidades desde pequeños y el aprender a valorar como todo un ambiente cambia y se armoniza gracias a una plantita.
El único defecto que tienen las plantas son las arañas…. me dan pavooooor!! Pero ayer paso algo muy curioso…. puse una de las plantas en el fregadero de la cocina para regarla, cuando más tarde regresé por la plantita había una araña que inmediatamente me recordó a Miss Spider y me dio mucha tristeza darle un zapatazo!! no se si sea el principio de un cambio en mi manera de ver y de sentir con respecto a las arañas… Me esfuerzo por no transmitir este miedo a mis enanos, pero vivimos en una zona donde hay viudas negras y pues al ser tan venenosas, desde pequeñitos les he enseñado que muchos insectos pican, y que son sumamente peligrosos, que no se deben de acercar a ninguno hasta que no pregunten a un adulto.
Bueno demasiada platica de arañas para un día………..

Ninna :)

Mom, what does synonyms means?

This is the question that my little 4 years old monkey popped just like that at 6:30 am LOL!
And after his question was answered, he went back to play with his hot wheels while Mom was doing breakfast! I love the way his little brain works, after he was tested a lot of things are easer for me… is not the number, is just that is easier to be patient or to try to find some other ways to explain him the things when I am sure that he does not act just because he is a spoiled one… it is easier for me to be patience if I know those reactions are something that sometimes came completely out of control for him. I know this is going to be a long journey and I pray God every single day and night to teach me and guide me to be able to guide my children.

He had been behaving a lot better, a couple of weeks he used to wake me almost every night crying in my ear, hitting me and asking me to get up and carry him…. there has been about 2 weeks of sleeping all night long, without hitting, insulting or any other kind of aggressive behaviour.. I know it is not easy for anyone, specially for him to deal with such a big levels of frustration and not being able to express them through 4 years, I hope things continue changing from now on.
Ninna :)

Thrilled with the first review of something in my lifeeee!!!

I've been invited to try Time4Learning for one month in exchange for a curriculum review. Time4Learning can be used as an online homeschooling program or afterschool tutorial. Be sure to come back and read about my experience.

Ninna

One Million Giraffes

This is a page we discover today: ONE MILLION GIRAFFES… although the project is over, they are still uploading the photographs, so Nick and I decided it would be cool to make our own giraffe.

It is amazing to share time and such a lovely project with my lil one….. I miss my princess she is at school since last week, and even dough she is over there for just a couple of hours I miss her with all my heart… :)
Ninna

Well, at the end we have a very bright monkey!!!

According to the WPPSI test, our lil Nick tested 155 iq, it says that it has a standard variation of 15 points, so that maybe is an indicator that he touch the top of the test and that he will need another test in a couple of years to have a more accurate rating of his iq. This is not for a just wanting a number or feeling the smarties round here… this is because I need to know what is going on his head to be able to help him, to guide him and to teach him exactly what he needs!! And because I am his MOM!!! :)
There were several mixed emotions… mixed feelings around all this giftedness stuff… but now the water is starting to get to its normal level. In one hand that sense of feeling so proud of my son, and at the same time that overwhelming feeling of having someone with so much potential and being afraid of not having enough capacity to guide and lay the roots of a happy adult, responsible, healthy and successful in all areas of his life.
Now the path that we have in front of us as his homeschool partner LOL, as parents and as family is a huge ? LOL. I think the first step that we need to give is to start reading as much material as we can, and lots and lots and lots of patience… G and I need to start working together as a single front as parents, something that has been a little hard for us because we have such a different approach in discipline and education about the kids…. But I am sure that we will find our way to sort all this things… we deserve it, and our kids deserve it more… they are such a lovely gift from God, not enough time in the universe to be as grateful as I should be for being a mother of this two angels…. :)
Ninna

Little one´s test

So after a couple of years of doubts and questions, we took our monkey to have the iq test.
There had been so many things that we had learn as parents, and so many things that I had learn with this experience as a mother and as a woman…. First I feel completely glad and grateful that we made it because my beloved G has changed in an amazing way his approach to discipline to the lil one, and the monkey behaviour has been improving a lot too… so the house is 5% more peaceful than before LOL. In the other hand we had a horrible experience with Ana Azuela… she is very recognized in the field and she has the IDDENT thing here, but to be honest I would never ever recommend anyone to have any kind of interaction with this woman specially in the professional field. When I contacted her i felt some kind of uncomfortable feeling inside of me, so I googled her name and her association and the only things I found were marvellous articles in a lot of different web sites, a book that she wrote and the only two big gifted sites of the country linked to her IDDENT page… so I thought… maybe she is a genius too LOL and she has some kind of weird behaviour…. But she is the most rude and informal woman I had know… she told me that the price for the test was going to be 100 Dlls, because she did not have a place to do it, and because i needed to travel, and after she made the test when we pay her she told me: “Excuse me but I told you it was going to be 150 Dlls”…. OMG!! I could not believe it.. because I was sure I asked her several times through the phone how much this was going to cost…. I thought that maybe she was kind of disperse and with any bad intention behind…. so we paid her the rest of the money… the test was almost 4 weeks ago.. we are 200 kms away from the place where she is.. and we have offered her at least 10 ways of sending us the certificates of the test and she is always busy, giving poor excuses for not give us our papers, I even call her one morning to ask her to set a time that would be ok for her because we were going to send a taxi to pick the papers and put them on the post office, she answer me that 8 am of the next day would be fine, so I sent her an email explaining her that the cab would arrive at 8 am to pick up the papers. She didn't answer the mail, but after we pay for the evaluation it seemed like she loose any kind of interest of answering my emails the way that she used to do it when i first contact her. To make this short when the taxi arrived the driver call us to explain that this Ana Azuela told him that we didn´t let her know that he was going to pick something, and that the papers were not ready, that she has not printed them!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Imagine how we feel….. This papers should had been printed since 3 weeks ago… And when my husband called her to ask her what is this game she is playing, she even have the cynics of asking him to send him money to her account so she could send us the papers by ups…. as you can imagine we are not going to give her one single cent more….
That was the horrible story and we do not even know if we are going to have our certificate or not… I will write another post about the results of the test and some other happy stuffs:) I do not want to mix my little monkey´s business with this woman… :p
Ninna