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fleaMy goal is to write a 3-4 page essay analyzing my textbook chapter by 5:30, when I am attending a parent advocacy group event (with FREE DINNER!)
I have eaten a cookie and had coffee to motivate me.
Waits.
So, Dillo is walking pretty well now, and has stopped crying at drop-off in his new classroom. At least for mr. flea dropping him off; since he sometimes cries when I leave the house in the morning, I am sure he would still cry if I dropped him off. The walking makes him seem like a much older kid, now that's he's decent at it. He can stand on the toilet and play with stuff! (Can't climb up there by himself, though he wants to.) It's amazing what a difference a couple of months makes at this age - there are kids in his class who are 2-3 months older than Dillo who are just so physically active and able, and some good talkers too, in the 18 months + group. (Of course, there is also a LOT of variability in skills at this age.)
Casper had a hard day at school Tuesday, though we're not sure why. I neither drop her off (mr. flea does) nor pick her up (Beth does) so it all feels a little distant to me. I do pack the lunches; we are working on reminding Casper every day that she should eat her lunch first and talk to her friends second (they only have 1/2 hour for lunch), and that she should get herself milk. She has money on an account that she can use to buy milk, but she has to go ask for it. We are thinking maybe including a straw in her lunchbox will help her remember about the milk, but that trick didn't work yesterday. Casper has two friends she talks about a lot: Logan and Alejandro. I am amused by her interest in the gregarious and slightly wild (to hear her talk about them!) boys. They are just like Chase in her day care class was. mr. flea has figured out who they are, and reports that they seem like nice kids. We're not sure that Alejandro speaks much English, but this doesn't seem to inhibit communication at all. Casper also really likes Emmett, her after-school buddy. Does not talk about any girls, not even the one who she's known since she was 2.
She got a Melissa and Doug brand dry-ease/chalk/magnetic board with letters as a belated birthday present last night, and took to it right away. She wanted to write "thank you" in chalk, but still only knows a few of the letters. I was trying to help her by finding the right magnetic letters so she could use them as a guide, but Dillo was 'helping' and I was trying to cook dinner, so it was not a great learning moment. She made an excellent T and a good H and then seemed to get mad at herself over a botched A. Then we tried her name - she knows E best, of course. But then I went to fry bacon and she started coloring herself with the dry-erase marker so the moment was lost.
It seems the opening curriculum at school is about "Grace and Courtesy." We are invited to an afternoon snack in a week when the kids will show off their manners. This week is music class, and Casper spent the stroller ride home from Emmett's singing, "If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all!" Seems like a good lesson.
I have eaten a cookie and had coffee to motivate me.
Waits.
So, Dillo is walking pretty well now, and has stopped crying at drop-off in his new classroom. At least for mr. flea dropping him off; since he sometimes cries when I leave the house in the morning, I am sure he would still cry if I dropped him off. The walking makes him seem like a much older kid, now that's he's decent at it. He can stand on the toilet and play with stuff! (Can't climb up there by himself, though he wants to.) It's amazing what a difference a couple of months makes at this age - there are kids in his class who are 2-3 months older than Dillo who are just so physically active and able, and some good talkers too, in the 18 months + group. (Of course, there is also a LOT of variability in skills at this age.)
Casper had a hard day at school Tuesday, though we're not sure why. I neither drop her off (mr. flea does) nor pick her up (Beth does) so it all feels a little distant to me. I do pack the lunches; we are working on reminding Casper every day that she should eat her lunch first and talk to her friends second (they only have 1/2 hour for lunch), and that she should get herself milk. She has money on an account that she can use to buy milk, but she has to go ask for it. We are thinking maybe including a straw in her lunchbox will help her remember about the milk, but that trick didn't work yesterday. Casper has two friends she talks about a lot: Logan and Alejandro. I am amused by her interest in the gregarious and slightly wild (to hear her talk about them!) boys. They are just like Chase in her day care class was. mr. flea has figured out who they are, and reports that they seem like nice kids. We're not sure that Alejandro speaks much English, but this doesn't seem to inhibit communication at all. Casper also really likes Emmett, her after-school buddy. Does not talk about any girls, not even the one who she's known since she was 2.
She got a Melissa and Doug brand dry-ease/chalk/magnetic board with letters as a belated birthday present last night, and took to it right away. She wanted to write "thank you" in chalk, but still only knows a few of the letters. I was trying to help her by finding the right magnetic letters so she could use them as a guide, but Dillo was 'helping' and I was trying to cook dinner, so it was not a great learning moment. She made an excellent T and a good H and then seemed to get mad at herself over a botched A. Then we tried her name - she knows E best, of course. But then I went to fry bacon and she started coloring herself with the dry-erase marker so the moment was lost.
It seems the opening curriculum at school is about "Grace and Courtesy." We are invited to an afternoon snack in a week when the kids will show off their manners. This week is music class, and Casper spent the stroller ride home from Emmett's singing, "If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all!" Seems like a good lesson.