October News

 

Kylee went to the doctor for her 6 month check up.  She was about 25 inches and 15.6 lbs.  Zoe got her flu "shot" in the nose and Kylee got 3 vaccinations, plus her flu shot.  Kylee has been eating a lot more solids, but prunes have to be handy always.  Poor little thing gets so stopped up already.  Hopefully she will get passed that stage when her body gets used to solids.  She is sitting like a champ, loves squash, peaches, and pears.  Green beans are not a favorite.  The doctor said she has such great core strength that she may be an early walker.  Yikes!  She absolutely gets a kick out of watching her big sis when she is busy running about.  I am sure she will be running after her sister soon enough!  We have almost made it to my goal of breastfeeding Kylee until Christmas break.  Pumping at school is NO fun!  Plus finding the time to makes lunchtime go in fast forward.  I think we will stick to our morning and evening feeding routine and possibly introduce formula for the daytime.  We'll see! 
Zoe is enjoying school.  She loves singing all the songs, BUT only at home.  We have a TON of projects from both schools and love seeing what she makes.  She explains how she made each one and is always eager to tell the story behind each project.  Every time she gets a chance she treats her babies like her students and plays school.  Too cute!  We had our first parent/teacher conference at our school for her.  It was weird being on the other end of the conference.  Of course we gave her teacher a hard time from the get go and asked, "How are you challenging our daughter?"  Her poor teacher is new to our school, so she wasn't sure if we were joking :).  Well we are definitely proud parents!  She is very slow to warm, so she is still very shy at school, but we are working on it.  Academically, the teacher said she is off the charts.  They assessed her letter, number, shape, color recognition and quantities.  Her teacher said she knows 9 letters, 10 colors (the teacher quit asking her anymore :) ), 7 shapes (again, the teacher quit asking her anymore :) ), names numbers to 8, and counted quantities to 10 (the teacher quit giving more quantities after 10).  She knows her first and last name when asked, she knows she is a girl.  They said she knows many directional/positional words and attributes such as dirty/clean, dry/wet, and big/little.  Also, they hear her use "ing" verbs and can answer who, what, and where questions.  Of course I wanted to know when she should be able to identify all of her letters and her teacher pulled out the scope and sequence and said at age 5.3.  Zoe is just such a sponge!!!  She gets introduced to a few letters each month at her school near our house and she is picking up letters here and there because her little friends' names have certain letters.  They really enjoy having Zoe and another teacher in that program basically puts dibs on her for next year.  We cannot be any happier with our decision to place her at both schools.  Now we will continue to try and encourage her to participate during circle time at school :).