We've been steadily getting into our new school routine. I really didn't anticipate how much Avaree join to Kindergarten would change all of our lives, but it has. :) We have slowly learned what works best and what doesn't for all of us.
This little girl may have had the hardest adjustment. For the first two weeks, she cried at the door after Avaree left, threw lots of fits, and was overall really difficult to please, but now she's settling in, and she's learning her identity apart from her sister. We have "school time" and she enjoys going to "her class" at church and BSF. She also loves playing with, feeding, taking care of "her bubbly" and every baby that we have in this house. She loves to be the Mommy! :)
Every afternoon after she gets up from nap, she says, "We go get my sister, Lolly." Of course, it sounds more like, "We go geh my sis-her Wawy!" It's so sweet. She's also gotten better about not giving Avaree the silent treatment when she gets in the car after school! ha! Of course, we're home for five minutes, and they're fighting again, but they really do love each other.
Felicity just had so much of her identity tied up in Avaree, she has really come out of her shell lately. She sings and dances, laughs, tells "knock knock jokes", and talks all day! It's really been a joy to watch her bloom! The talking started back in July, but everything else has been in the last month!
In the last month, she has also learned her ABCs (for the most part), her colors, her numbers (and can count from 1-15 in English and 1-10 in Spanish--thanks to Avaree!), and the basic shapes. Her favorite color is purple and her favorite shape is the diamond! :)
This girl has a soft spot for "my bubbie", as she calls him. She loves to hold him, play with him, feed him, and sing to him. She pretends to take pictures of him all day long, and today I caught her giving him a chip from her plate at dinner! ha! These two are going to be a pair!
This big girl is really thriving in Kinder! She came home with a blue this week, and we were so proud! We had set the goal for her to get a blue (the color that reflects "exceeding expectations in the classroom") sometime that week, and she brought it home the next day! We have a very solid routine of everyone sitting at the table together right when we get home from school. Felicity draws on a piece of paper, and Avaree does her homework right away. We talk about her day all the way home, and then after homework, we put all school stuff away and ready for the next day, clean out her lunch box, and then it's usually time for me to play with the big girls for a minute before time to cook dinner. We usually get home around 3:45 every afternoon.
I'm so thankful that she loves to do her homework, and she never minds doing it first thing. I hope that she will always love her homework, even though I know that's a bit of a pipe dream. ;) One thing that we have learned is that she does need to try to have her eyes closed by 7:45pm. She's just exhausted, and in order for us to have some time together in the mornings and not be rushed, she needs to get up around 6:30-6:45, so that requires her to go to bed earlier. Otherwise, it's meltdown city. We miss her so much during the day, but we are getting a little more accustomed to our new schedule. It's just hard to get Brandt's second nap and Felicity's whole nap in before we have to leave for pick up. We're almost there though. :)
Speaking of little brother, he is EIGHT MONTHS OLD TODAY! I'll write his 8 month post soon, but he is all over the place. There is no doubt that he is officially on the move! He can army crawl across the room in about 30 seconds, and we've had to be soooo careful about what he can get. He has already eaten one black crayon that Felicity left on the floor! ;) He also had his first fever this week. I'm so proud that we made it almost 8 months without a fever. That was not the case for his sisters. Avaree's first fever was her first week at daycare (12 weeks), and Felicity's was 4 months. He had an ear infection, and the antibiotic is really working quickly! He was miserable for a couple of days, but he's generally happy if Mama is around. ;) I left him with Brandon on Thursday night, so that I could take the girls to cheer practice and work on the spirit sticks during practice. I don't think they had the best hour ever. Poor Daddy! Brandt is also finally getting on a schedule, and it was close to the 7 o'clock hour, so he was done and ready for bed! :)
It's so fun to watch him explore his world.
In conclusion, these two melt me. They can play together SO SWEETLY (and then fight like crazy people the next minute), but they do love each other so. :)
Much more to come. I need to write Brandt's 8 month update, and my big girl turns SIX in two days. I can't even wrap my brain around that.
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