Had swimming lessons again last night. I don't know that John gets a whole lot out of it. With 6 kids or so, he's not really doing anything while the teacher is working with the other kids. I think in the future if we do lessons they'll have to be private ones. Otherwise, he gets plenty of time in the pool when we swim on our own. He is steadily improving. He can't really do swim strokes, but he can paddle and turn himself in the water with his hands and feet. Hanna loves to dive in the shallow end. She's not quite ready to dive in deeper water, but she is a water bug too.
The last few times we've come to the pool, when we're walking in, John pulls up his pants legs and runs giggling to the building. I mean, it is rather cold out, and he thinks it is quite funny to have bare legs in the cold.
I usually play some of our Disney story tapes in the car when taking the kids to Sue's house. I have Fox and the Hound, Peter Pan, and Cinderella right now. This morning, Hanna was sort of telling the story along with the tape. Cute. "You'll walk the plank!" When we go to the Y, we have the Dumbo/101 Dalmations tape in the van, and they like those. On the way home last night, we watched the Thomas dvd. One of the stories is about how Oliver gets off on a wrong track because someone switched the points, and runs into a barn. John likes that one, and kinds say "oh no!" when Oliver takes the wrong turn. Hanna hears this, so on one of the other stories, not the Oliver one, she started saying what John does during the Oliver story, not realizing I guess she had the wrong story. ha. She's trying to keep up with her brother!
For a long long time now, John has seemed more and more like a boy. Much more aware of himself as a person, more complex thinking. Sometimes when I play with him I'll hold him and say "my baby boy!" and he'll say "I'm not a baby!" Lately one of the things he likes to joke about is he'll say "the boys go in the ladies room, and the girls go in the mens room!" He's becoming more aware of gender differences. Rhonda went to the agency mom's meeting on Monday night. One of the things they talked about is how orphanage kids will always have this anxiety, if even just subconsciously about abandonment issues and it can lead to antsy behavior, etc... They were talking about maybe that's why John gets more wild sometimes. Like last night, at his swimming lesson, all the other kids were sitting quietly on the edge of the pool while the teacher was with other kids, and John was splashing, kicking around in the water, etc...
This morning as I was getting their breakfast ready, John said in a scary voice "now you're mine" and then laughed in kind of an evil guy cackle. heh, I wonder where he got that from, what he saw. Don't think anything I've let him watch.
Here is a rather odd game!
The last few times we've come to the pool, when we're walking in, John pulls up his pants legs and runs giggling to the building. I mean, it is rather cold out, and he thinks it is quite funny to have bare legs in the cold.
I usually play some of our Disney story tapes in the car when taking the kids to Sue's house. I have Fox and the Hound, Peter Pan, and Cinderella right now. This morning, Hanna was sort of telling the story along with the tape. Cute. "You'll walk the plank!" When we go to the Y, we have the Dumbo/101 Dalmations tape in the van, and they like those. On the way home last night, we watched the Thomas dvd. One of the stories is about how Oliver gets off on a wrong track because someone switched the points, and runs into a barn. John likes that one, and kinds say "oh no!" when Oliver takes the wrong turn. Hanna hears this, so on one of the other stories, not the Oliver one, she started saying what John does during the Oliver story, not realizing I guess she had the wrong story. ha. She's trying to keep up with her brother!
For a long long time now, John has seemed more and more like a boy. Much more aware of himself as a person, more complex thinking. Sometimes when I play with him I'll hold him and say "my baby boy!" and he'll say "I'm not a baby!" Lately one of the things he likes to joke about is he'll say "the boys go in the ladies room, and the girls go in the mens room!" He's becoming more aware of gender differences. Rhonda went to the agency mom's meeting on Monday night. One of the things they talked about is how orphanage kids will always have this anxiety, if even just subconsciously about abandonment issues and it can lead to antsy behavior, etc... They were talking about maybe that's why John gets more wild sometimes. Like last night, at his swimming lesson, all the other kids were sitting quietly on the edge of the pool while the teacher was with other kids, and John was splashing, kicking around in the water, etc...
This morning as I was getting their breakfast ready, John said in a scary voice "now you're mine" and then laughed in kind of an evil guy cackle. heh, I wonder where he got that from, what he saw. Don't think anything I've let him watch.
Here is a rather odd game!
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