School pictures & updates

We are now in the second six weeks of Kindergarten. That means that we had a parent teacher conference with Kaylin's teacher this week. She said Kaylin is doing awesome. She excels in writing, letter/sound recognition, and sight word recognition/writing (I, a, me, the, etc. - words used a lot in first readers). Her teacher described her as very motherly and caring, which I obviously already knew. She told us several stories as examples - as a class they were asked to clean up and put away the things they were working on, a little boy at her table/on her team put everything but his scissors up and had them out and playing with them. Kaylin gently took the scissors from him and put them in the bin and told him, "Ms. G__ said we need to put our things away." Her teacher said the little boy let her do this and didn't resist at all or cause a scene, which she thought would have been the case if she'd have done the same thing. The other story was during an assembly they had with a puppeteer. Everyone was clapping but the little boy sitting kitty-corner to her. Again, she gently touched his arm and told him, "Clap, ___, clap...like this," and demonstrated and he started clapping. Yep, sounds just like my little mama. She's been saying for the last 2 years that she wants to be a music teacher when she grows up and her teacher said, before I said anything about Kaylin wanting to be a teacher, "she'd make a great teacher." So, I guess we'll see if that pans out in about 12 years.

We also got her school picture back. The picture was taken the day she was sent home with an ear infection. Her teacher told me she started crying as soon as pictures were done. That night, her ear drum ruptured, so it had to have been a pretty nasty ear infection considering she's had so many in her short little life and this one came on so fast and ended with the rupture. At any rate, her smile says she doesn't want to be smiling, but other than that, given the circumstances, I think it's a darn good picture.

From September 2008

Jonathan also had school pictures taken at Mother's Day Out.

From September 2008

His vocabulary is just exploding every day. We have full on phrases now. Things like, "I got it!" My favorite word he says is shoes, because the O is drawn out, so it sounds like shooooues, a lot like you. He must think putting your shoes on is a game, because every time he says shoes, Jeremy and I just repeat it over and over just to hear him say it again. And we all end up laughing. He also loves to bring everyone their shoes if he thinks it's time to go somewhere. He'll plop your shoes down in front of you and demand, "shoooues on!"

Things have been busy, but we're still having lots of fun around here!