A New Beginning

Alrighty, so it's been really a couple of years since I've written regularly on my blog. I don't know what happened, life just got busier or I made less time for my blog. Anyways, I love reading old posts of the kids or whatever was going on. Blogs are really like journals and it's so nice to keep track of memories. So I'm going to recommit myself to blogging on a more regular basis. I feel kind of bad that I let all that time go without keeping track of what was going on in our lives. 

So, let's start again:

Anna is in kindergarten. I got her transferred to a better school and she's doing great, really, truly great. She's just such a smart girl. She started learning how to read in preschool and she has steadily progressed. I would say she's at a 2nd grade reading level. She's by far the best reader in her class. 

I am lucky enough to volunteer every other week in her class. I love being able to see what she does when she's at school. And seriously, I don't think there's anything cuter than kindergarteners. They're so sweet and loving. The girls will come up and give me hugs and are excited to see someone new. They're still so innocent and happy. I really do love it. Her teacher is Mrs. Mealey. She's a lot of fun, does a lot of crafts and fun activities with the kids. 

Her writing is good. She loves to write her own songs and stories. She's pretty good, especially for a kindergartener. She has a great imagination. She's made her own board game, another game based off a computer game she plays.

She loves to make associations. She'll say, hey my spoon is orange and so is the food I'm eating! or Mommy, you were talking about cheese and I'm eating cheese! 

She also likes to count and keep track of things. I'll make her cut up strawberries and bananas and mix in some yogurt. After she's done, she'll say, "there were 22 strawberries and 16 bananas."She does this a lot. Haha. 

She also LOVES LOVES LOVES My Little Pony. We got her all 6 for Christmas and she is going to have a MLP birthday party when she turns 6. She loves to draw ponies, as well. 

Here, we went to this dinosaur activity/exhibit thingy, and she got a unicorn face painting. 

Okay, on to Alex boy. He's 3 years old and just my sweet little boy. He's home with me while Anna's at school. Next year, I'll put him in preschool. I can't put  him in the one Anna went to, which was great AND cheap, because he has a late fall birthday and he just misses the age cut off. So he'll be one of the older kids in class. 

Anyways, he's a smart little boy too. He knows all his letters, numbers, can count to 30, AND he knows the sounds most letters make. Even Anna didn't know them this early. Anna brought home a list of words that rhymed-cat, hat, sat. It was on the table and he was eating a snack. I suddenly hear him sounding out those words! This was a few months ago. It was crazy. I try and practice with him, but he doesn't like to do a lot, so slowly yet surely. I wouldn't be surprised if he's an early reader, too!

He really likes Cars, the movie and all the characters-Mater, Lightening McQueen, etc. He has all of them. He even had a Cars birthday when he turned 3. However, now he and Anna are getting more into the Mario Brother's franchise.

He's still my cuddly boy. He really likes it when we softly rub his back or tummy with our fingers. 

They both like to play this online game called Animal Jam, made by National Geographic Kids. He's getting pretty good, too. Haha.

He's pretty articulate for a 3 year old, at least I think so compared to some other 3 year olds I here sometimes. We potty trained him last fall and ever since then, he's been obsessed with poop. Calling people poo poo heads or whatnot. We finally had to make a rule this week that we're done talking about poop because it was happening so much. 

Here's my little man with Stegosaurus, his favorite dinosaur. 

That's it for now, folks. I will try and be more regular about blogging!