I honestly couldn't say what happened this summer in terms of updating the blog. I suppose my excuse is that we were extremely busy at work, but still you would think I would have managed to add at least one update. Anyway, I am going to try and get better at this and Case says he'd like to update ya'll once in awhile, too.
Here are some pics of the kids during their first days of school. It's hard to believe that CJ and Ceirnan are both in school this year. They have grown so big and so smart. Casey and I are constantly amazed at how much they continue to change and yet how their personalities are really the same as the first day they were born.
CJ is loving kindergarten at his big school. His favorites right now are Math ("even though it's not real Math"), Library, and Computer Lab. He is making friends and his teachers really seem to love seeing him so that makes me happy. He is currently working on printing his letters and is getting much better. He is definitely tired by the end of the day and pretty much exhausted by the end of the week, but he's coping. He does get a little frustrated by their homework because it's essentially the exact same thing they did all day. He brought home 5 pages of "C" tracings with colored pictures at the bottom and then I had to sit him down to do two more for homework. I try to remind him that everyone works differently and that the more practice he has the better he will be. In relation to Math, he kept thinking they didn't have Math class because they weren't doing addition or subtraction yet, but he definitely likes working on patterns which is what they did this week. Overall, we are so glad we let him stay in Pre-K last year and just so proud of how he is doing.
Ceirnan thinks she is about ten. When we brought her on the first day, she told us first, that we could drop off. When we said that was a no go, she told us as soon as we got to the classroom that we could go now. Then she told us several times to go ahead and go home not accepting the fact that the first day parents are required to come. The teachers and other parents thought she was pretty funny and she began chatting and chatting and chatting and chatting with anyone who would listen and with the other kids who were not listening to her at all. She is excited and was even more excited the second day when she "got to go all by herself". Our house is ringing with those words as she does not want help with anything anymore. We're glad to see she is so independent. She has really started to take off with her counting and seems to be started to get the correlation between a number and the number of objects in front of her. She also continues to have us read or to "read" to herself pretty much all day long. We're excited to see her progress as the year moves forward. In July we met with her surgeon and he's decided to hold off on any surgery because she is doing so well with her hand. We're hoping with some OT she will be able to strengthen it and her shoulder so if we need surgery in the future, we can expect the best outcome.
Some funny quotes from the first days of school:
CJ: It was a long, long day. There were some criers.
Ceirnan: Where's the clean up song? (to the teachers when they asked the kids to clean up)
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