Band on the Diaper Run

I totally feel your school-related-angst.  I've been trying to decide between starting kindergarten vs. one more year of preschool.  So if we have pre-school graduation in 3 months, I'll be crying AND feeling guilt about pushing my little baby out of the nest too soon.  Who knew that school could be so stressful.  Forget about college!  Kindergarten is what's killing us!  And I am now a neurotic overplanning parent.  Crap.

BTW, my 4 year old won't let me take "Bring It Back" out of the cd player.  Her favorite bit to sing is the, "...taste of the meal, and not the routine" part.  

For twin advice:

Have two sets of supplies (diapers plus bouncy seats or swings) on each level of the house so you dont have to run up and down the stairs. (helped us a lot)

Make sure Dad comes home at a decent hour to keep you sane.

Split up the night time care (one per parent).  The one who sleeps the best can go with dad (assuming he goes to work and mom doesnt).

Hire someone to help you..(unless you have a very generous relative around who is willing to help)  At least for a few hours a week - its too much work for one person!

I was totally thinking this same thing this past week.  As my husband was correcting our 2 year old I told him to stop because I'll be sad when she learns the correct pronunciation once and for all because she'll never go back and that will mean she's growing up and she's doing that fast enough dangit!  For the letter "w" she used to say 'double doo' and has already corrected herself to a proper 'double you' sound.  I miss it already.  

I had a lisp when I was young as well. I just got put in a speech class in elementary school...Basically I would talk the way they told me too when I went to the class once a week and talk normally the rest of the time..ha..

lots and lots of speech "impediments" are still age appropriate beyond klindergarten so don't start correcting yet - you'll only stress everyone out.

i remember driving my neighbor's kindergartner to school with my 3 year old son in the car, my son asked the 5 year old, what's your teacher's name?  he replies mister wawwy (real name mr. lally), my son says, oh, mr. wawwy, kindergarten says no, mr. wawwy - and on and on!

btw - "l"'s that sound like "w"'s is age appropriate still for a kindergartner  :-)

Hi Kori. I know that this i probably not the right forum for this, but I had to try.  I didn't know how much you check your regular website email.  My husband and I are avid fans of Mates (and your blog).  Your music has been part of our lives in a big way over the last several years.  We are expecting our first kiddo in June! We were planning on going to the April 5th show in Williamsburg.  It's the day after my baby shower and was going to be our last "show date" before the kid.  So, i just went to get tickets and it's sold out!  I waited too long.  I know that I'm going out on a limb here, but I was wondering if there is anything you can do to help us out.  Here is my email address if you can get back to me.  jmaeallen@hotmail.com

Thanks so much.  

Jessica

Hi,

I just found your blog through the website (so excited that you're coming to LA next month- I'm totally going to be at the Fonda show!).  Hope you don't mind if I check in to your blog every now and then- My husband's in a band and we're trying to get pregnant this year (actually proving to be rather challenging, when he's out touring and not home- haha!) so I'm really interested in hearing your experiences with having your kids on the road with you...

And now an actual response to your post- my nephew always would say "BlehBlah" instead of "water".  He could pronounce Water-  We'd say "WAH" and he'd repeat "wah" then "ter" "ter" and then "water" and he'd say "BlehBlah".  Every single time.  And then one day when he was probably about three, we noticed he was saying the real word for "water" and it broke our hearts.  So I say, it is cute and don't worry- she'll probably correct it herself down the road when the time comes.

Hey fam, love you all

My thoughts are that as long as you say the word properly most of the time, it should be fine. As long as she generally hears the word properly, she'll eventually say them correctly. I know a 7 year old who still says words wrong because when his family said it they always said it the 'cute way' he did (ie 'ponice'= police) Some of my favorite things that Paige says are the mispronounced words. (ie 'moy'=more).

In our house it's brezpiz.  He's six on Friday and I've never corrected him.  Selfish.  So what?  I don't get what I want most of the time.

Kori...Smart Mom sent me an extra bracelet/necklace set (it's turquoise) and I'll bring it to dance class for you on Monday.  I think you'll really enjoy wearing it, especially when you're nursing so she has something to tug on.  Thanks for checking out my blog...and tell your friends.  I have all sorts of giveaways and stuff coming up!  

P.S.  Your blog is adorable and Brooklyn and I checked out your music and we love it!

See you Monday,

Courtney Hutson

oneboredmommy.blogspot.com

Have you thought about homeschooling at all? It's obviously portable so your kids could be in school wherever you go. Apparently, homeschool curriculums are really easy to teach and home schooled kids often finish school faster than they would in a more traditional school. Also, there are a lot of groups around just for homeschool kids to get together and socialize. There are sports groups, dance groups etc. depending on what's available where you live.