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By the Book
8.14.2007
Less than two more weeks!!!
Can you feel my excitement??? There are also a few nerves in there! I'm sure everything will be just fine...
As someone commented, I plan on having before and after pics of the playroom/schoolroom. Although I have already moved a few things around, I have not removed crayon scribbles and first finger paintings from our wall of art yet, and the girls mammoth computer is still in there. (I can't lift the monitor, it's such a dinosaur!) I will take some pictures tomorrow before I remove the art from the walls. I will also probably be sneaking some stuffed animals up into the girls' bedroom, but as those are K's "friends" now, I'll probably get in trouble for that. It is all coming together quite nicely now.
There are a few proud moments I have had with my oldest daughter lately. Scary, but proud! A couple weeks ago I handed H three crackers and then handed three to K. K shook her head, so I gave two more crackers to H and I took one. K looked up at me and said, "H gets six crackers?" I said, "No, she gets five." K looked at me puzzled for a minute before saying, "But 3 + 3 is 6." I said, "You're right, but I only gave her two more and I took one. So what's 3 + 2?" She said, "5," and then continued on with what she was doing like it was no big deal.
Tonight, as I was preparing some materials, I let her look through her reading book, which is called Rainbows. She opened up to the first page and said, "Mommy, what do we do on this page?" I told her she would have to wait until the first day of school to find out. Then a minute later she pronounced, "This story is called Up and Down!" Sure enough, the top of the page said "up and down." I asked her how she knew, and she pointed to the words and said, "This says 'up and down.' I read it."
On the H front, she is really starting to come out of her shell a bit. She still needs that quiet time to process what she's learning every day, but she sings on the phone now, and today she gave her sister and I a magic show. We clapped and everything, and she didn't get embarrassed and run off. She looked very proud to be able to be the performer for once, instead of just sitting in her sister's shadow.
I promise to have some pictures of the school room very soon. Maybe tomorrow I will post some before pictures instead of making everyone wait for two weeks!
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