Accountable Kids

I started this program with Henry a few months back. Its a chore chart/behavior chart that Henry is primarily responsible for. As he works through his daily items (brush teeth, breakfast, school, lunch, quiet time, etc) he flips them over. He can earn up to 3 tickets a day which is turned in for a "Bonus Buck". He can lose a tickets too and knows why he lost his ticket without whining or crying. Immediate consequences have helped with the whines/fighting/crap all over the place.


I was able to pick up Chart for Nico this weekend at the MS Crop. He was beyond happy to get his own chore chart & tickets. He chose coral puffy letters & helped to put it together.

I also picked up a "cards & ticket" hanger, it holds extra cards & tickets so they are up above the charts.



One of the fall festival projects - crappy picture. Canvas placemat, crackle paint, Glimmer Mist, Stickles, Quickutz diecuts, stamps, Dabbers, Distressing Inks - very messy & lots of fun.
Picture box with lots of doo-dads.

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Den boys

Had a den meeting last night with 6 boys who were eager to get crafty. I started a bead totem for the boys to earn beads for coming to den & pack meetings, bringing their tiger book & wearing their specified uniform (shirt, necker, slide, belt & patches).


Each boy designed his own lead and is responsible for adding his beads after the meetings.

I also put together a 'den doodle' using what else...scrapbook goodies. Quickutz letters, MM paints, Bazzill cardstock & ribbon.

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Halloween

Ready for fashion week

Funny boys sharing a bike.

a few days

The last week

Den meeting at a local park, we learned about marbles & how to play.
Nico decided they needed a hopscotch so he drew out some shapes & numbers up to 12.






The closing ceremony of the den meeting .... scout pledge & salute.

Saturday night was Scout night with the Tampa Bay Lightening..cheap tickets for $20 included a hot dog, a soft drink & a cool scout patch.


Henry decided the floor space under the chair was the best spot to sit. He did not like the noise & the height at first. After 30mins or so he settled down and asked for cotton candy.
Only picture of me from the game.
The cool patch.

My little Monsters

This boy can not be serious for a second.

A card made with leftover scraps from Fancy Pants Rough & Tumble papers. Love those cute...yea cute thunderbolts & clouds.
One page using some transparencies & ribbon.
A chipboard book made by Ziage, inked the white pages with Distress colours & covered the plain chipboard with papers from Sassafras Lass Monstrosity line.

I'm so glad I picked up the 7 Gypsies "Disclaimer" stamp set, lots & lots of disclaimers.


Another chipboard book this time by Maya Road - Large Gear book. All Sassafras Lass papers, stickers & diecuts.
I painted the chipboard shapes with paint and inked the edges with black cateye ink.

Finally

It's been crazy around here the last few weeks: new den leader, lots of scrappin'-for-hire, projects for the doodle and lunch dates.

Water shots for an afternoon at the Y poolpark. Nico loves to swim and finally can touch the bottom with his feet. Henry swims down to the bottom and touches with his hands.




We had to set up the tent in the living room- found a great bargain tent at the sports store.


Henry trying on his uniform for the first time.

The traveling turtle arrived safe & smelly at my door. He has a new large home in a fish tank and is feed live fish. Thankfully not in my house.
Beautiful moth outside my door, it was bigger than the palm of my hand.
Henry chatting with his pre-k teacher while waiting for cub scouting meeting to start.

Mr. no-fashion-sense-just-like-his-momma dressed for a trip to the store.

past week pages

SOme pics

Little cub scout trying on his outfit, I need to get busy and sew on his patches.

Henry's hands after spending 3 hours in the pool.
Nico drew a picture of himself skateboarding.

Recipe

I've been sitting on these papers & chipboard by Cosmo Cricket for a while. Came across a recipe book by Kenner Road and said that's what I'm going to make. I made my own tent board with chipboard scraps, it works now but I'm still looking for the Maya Road flip book.

h1n1 aka hiney flu

The boys are doing much better 24 hrs later, just a lingering fever and cough. Thank goodness nico only vomited once at 1am Friday, got in the shower, took some motrin and then slept until 8am. Woke up feeling good he said. He did take a dive after the motrin wore off so I'm staying on top of the meds dispensing.

It all started with Henry, he woke up with a sore throat 6am Thursday. Joe gave hims some water and vitamin c. Wihin an hour he was spiking a fever and whimpering. Called the pedi and had an appointment for 9.20am.

Poor boy he was miserable and just wanted to stay home in bed. They took a strep swap & flu swap which is a really long spongy qtip that they shove way up your nose. Fifteen minutes later the doc walks in saying "we have good news & some bad news, its not strep bad news its Influenza A -swine flu". She said its great that we caught it super early instead of waiting until the symptoms have worsened. She sent off a script for Tamiflu & Amantadine (another antiviral) and told me that H is in quarantine for 7 days starting today. No school, parks, malls, stores, etc until Thursday of next week. ARGHHHH!

By Friday he was better, not 100% henry. He still has that glassy eyed, pallor complextion and is sleeping a lot.

Today, Nico woke up saying he not feeling good. I gave him 2 motrin chewables and an hour later he is up playing with lego and acting much better.

school pages

Started working on these pages last night before the swine fairy dropped off its present for the boys. Nico is down for the count now and Henry says his back is not bothering him anymore. He did eat some chips & a cup of cottage cheese but still having a fight about taking liquids.

Nico acting goofy as we walk into the school, he had to carry his totebag in his teeth and then show the teacher his stuff. He took off to the playground without saying good bye or looking back for me.

At the pedi office waiting to see the doc. H. wants to go home, poor baby. He is miserable.

Easy days

Rain rain go away

A page using die cuts only (quickutz since that's all i own) and photos of my work space.

Came across this cute paper the other day and bought 2 sheets with no idea on what I would use it for. Pulled out these pictures today and thought of the squirrel paper, perfect. Reminisce new autumn line, thickers and CI labels.

About 6 hours

Started last night and finished today, total maybe 6 hours with comings & goings. Prima Canvas Album, paints, inks, glimmer mist, October Afternoon Road Map line, Stickles, iron-on photos, stamps, transparencies and... some other stuff that is in there.

New Meds

Henry's visit with the neuro went great, he weighs just under 50lbs and 49inches. Since we have been having issues with the boy hiding/fighting/spitting out his pills, the doc gave us a script for the Daytrana patch. H was excited when I told him no more pills in the morning.

Around 8.30apm this morning, I slapped one on H's hip while he was sleeping. I wanted to apply it earlier but I didn't wake up until then. Its 9.30am now and so far it seems to have slowly kicked in. I'm hoping this slows his hyperactivity and ups his focus, we're going to work on writing letters today.

6 month checkup

The boys had a check up today and all is great. No cavities or dental issues, the doc says they are brushing well and taking care of their teeth. I asked about H not losing any teeth, doc said it could be another year before they fall out.

The boys are really interested in seeing the mouth & tools.


Henry fully stretched out on the chair, his feet and arms were stiff. You would have thought they were torturing him but he was giggling and said it tickled.
Nico being so calm he comatose.
H helping the doc. count nico's teeth, nico helped too. The nurse was giggling at the boys antics.

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goofy pages

Again daddy!

Nico finally worked up the courage to have joe toss him into the pool. He was hooked after the first toss...again daddy again was all we heard that day.

Now I'm happy

I'm really happy with the way this page came out, it really shows the quiet, still air around Henry. He was very contented to stay on the roof of Ft. Mantanza outpost. He enjoyed watching the launch go back & forth across the inlet.




Stamping, metallic ink stamped border around photo, Autumn Leaves, October Afternoon, Daisy D paper.

Beach

A page using just Quickutz dies- Relax set that has the beach themed dies & funky alphabet. The birds are from the 4x4 birds die.

Bored at the doctors. Waiting for my bloodwork & scripts.

Rainy Day

The boys have been mostly behaved today, they played with lego and watched some tv. Then they were entertained by Joe moving his computers out the bedroom into the front room. The boys are excited that they are getting their own rooms, Henry said he is moving all his toys into his room and locking the door.

Made Taco salad for dinner, so yummy with lots of lettuce & tasty salsa from Sam's (thanks Val!).

fresh start

M & T

Make n take for tomorrow's crop @ the store. Paint Dabbers, cut n dry foam Glimmer mists, masks, stamping & bling.

The sun

Finally the sun is out, I think we'll head to the beach today. Here is two more that I did last night.

Thursday already

Where did the week go? oh yea still spend a few days recovering from the bug that hit the house.

Finally peeled my a$$ out of bed and did some pages, here is one of nico riding his "hot wheel".

I'm feeling much better

Finally did something with this 5x7 pic of Darth Nic, it was a challenge on Scrapbooks.com - N O P. Use a noun, opposite colours & use a punch. Ugh purple is not my colour, I have about 4 sheets total of purple in my stash. I wanted to use purple letters but I didn't even have any, so I created a mask with QK moxie diecuts & painted over them. I'm happy with the page.

Another challenge - cardboard. I used cardboard for the QK letters (moxie again) and photo corners. Simple & fast page using up old old stash products.

Sicko

Most of us are feeling better today, I wanted a nice picture of joe since he is 40. This is the lovely picture, thanks boys.
Cute pics of nico being creative. He didn't want to get hurt so he strapped a pillow to his bum just like Pingu. He was too cute out there shaking his b00tee. K & Co. Citronella paper line, my latest favourite paperline.
Love those quickutz penguins, perfect for this page. I used a Fancy Pants Journal page to use as the title box.
Henry and his Citizen of the Month grin, he was so excited to use the gift cert. for a free meal at the Red Elephant. He ate the whole yummy pizza. Misc. scraps of papers & stickers, star diecut is by Creative Imaginations.

Beach Memory Jar filled with St. Augustine sand, pictures of the boys and seaweed too. All 7 gypsies items - rub-ons, tags, stamps.

Today

A page about H's birthday gift from bil/sil/baby timmy. He was so excited to open up th box & pull out the Lincoln Logs. The pictures are even blurry from him moving around excitedly.

Using up scraps from the bin & left over stickers.