so i decided we'd throw out our usual routine and park it in the master bedroom for some casual hang out time. since olivia is obsessed with pulling herself up onto things, nothing else seems to be of interest to her. the only problem with this is that she hasn't figured out how to get down from where she's standing, so she'll whine until either myself or emma helps her down..hehe. emma loves to use her imagination and play which is wonderful but today i felt like it would be worthwhile to start brushing up on her writing skills.
we purchased a kindergarten level workbook from costco that teaches upper and lower case levels, math and includes different activities to help children learn. so i broke them up into little booklets so that emma could work at it piece by piece and feel confident when kindergarten came around.
as incentive, i created a chart where she could put up stickers for each letter and number she completed working on. she was pretty excited to learn that there would be disney princess stickers to put up!
today she completed a-d and the number 1 and i could tell by the smile on her face that she felt good about finishing it. its nice to have a hand in her learning. she was even able to "read" some of the titles of the pages. she has such a thirst for knowledge, i know now is the time to tap into it and show her that she is capable of great things!
so even though today didn't go exactly as planned..we managed to make the best of it and learned something new. despite the dreadful fire testing that lasted ALL day, there were some pluses like getting our xbox 360 (finally) and learning that my icbc deductible was waived (ugh long stupid story with a happy ending)
with 2 kids, days never go as they were planned!
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