Updates

It's been a really long time since I have posted anything!  Hopefully, we will get a new computer soon and I can start uploading pictures again.  In the mean time I would like to take a few minutes to write about what Kent and Maeve are doing right now.  Kent started kindergarten this week!  Monday August 15th was an exciting day for Kent and super emotional day for me.  I never thought about how hard it was going to be to send him off to school.  He seems to like it so far.  However, I am getting paid back for all the trouble I gave my parents every morning.  He is not a morning person and we have to literally drag him out of bed.  Maeve on the other hand hops out of bed every morning asking for milk in her Dora cup.  It seems unfair because Patrick drives Kent to school at 7:30 and I don't have to work until 9:00.  I keep trying to convince Maeve to sleep in a little longer but she's not having it. 

Kent has mentioned counting by tens and twos, doing the calendar on the smart board, going to art, music, lights (a making good choices class), and the library, reviewing the colors, and who gets to keep their good choice card.  Of course he seems the most interested in talking about his friends.  He has even pointed them out to me when I pick him up.  He hasn't bothered asking them their names.  He seems to to think that those kind of details are unimportant.  Kent also shared that he was one of three kids in his class to go to "reading class".  Reading class ending up being a reading test but Kent kind of likes tests and he got a sticker so he thought it was fun.  When I asked him what he read he said "The Lucky Coin" which is a first grade level assessment. He said, "It was SOOO easy!" They then had him read "Danger in the Deep" which is a fifth grade level assessment.  He said, "I told her that I already read it but she wanted me to read it again." (Thanks to Nana we have DRA testing set.)  I had Kent read to me the page that they asked him to read and he read it perfectly.  I am so proud of that boy!

Maeve is doing very well in school too.  She is especially enjoying inside choice time because she LOVES to dress up.  Today her and another little girl named Olive dressed up like princesses.  Then they went to the "ball" (the rug where we do calendar time) and tried to recruit the boys to come dance with them and to marry them.  They were not at all successful in getting any princes to come to their ball or to marry them.  However, they were pretty pleased when Cole came over in his fire fighting costume and said, "Bye honeys, I'm going to work at the fire station now." and gave them both a hug.  I'm not overly excited about Maeve's fascination with marriage and princess stuff but it was pretty cute to see her actually playing with another girl and loving it so much.

 Maeve has also a love for Dora.  She wants to watch the same Dora episode over and over.  It's the episode where Dora and her family are trying to save the twin babies from rolling in their stroller into a volcano.  Pretty freaky.  Last weekend Maeve got a new Dora set (with a little house, two Doras, a Boots, the twin babies and a few other pieces), a whole set of dress up clothes, complete with tiaras and two pairs of princess shoes and a new stroller for her babies for only 10 dollars at a hundred mile long stretch of yard sales.  Kent got a big set of Mr. Potato head parts, a large foam dice and a sit and spin.  They absolutely loved the experience of picking out toys and paying for them themselves (Maeve brought her purse with $10 and Kent his wallet with $10). I have never seen them play so nicely together with their toys as they have with these cheap yard sale toys.  Well anyways, I need to pick up the boy from Kindergarten.  Hopefully I will be posting a lot of pictures very soon......