I Didn't Even Know It

December 3, 2008

I went to visit a private school today to see about 1st grade for Alexis next year. The director asked if she could read. I informed her that she could not! She seemed a bit concerned since Alexis is six years old and in Kindergarten. I informed the director that Alexis knows all of her letters and the sounds they make. The director stated that she felt Alexis was on the verge of reading. She advised me to go to the book store and get the BOB reading books. I was then on my way to pick Alexis up from school. While I was there, I consulted her teacher about Alexis's reading skills. I shared, that I felt like she is just about to start reading. She looked at me with wide eyes and said, "Alexis reads to me everyday." Next we were off to the bookstore. I asked the associate where the BOB books were? The associate pointed them out to me and I soon discovered these BOB books were the same books Alexis comes home with each day in her backpack that we practice reading each night. I then sat down on the carpet at the bookstore, took one of the BOB books out and asked Alexis to come sit down and see if she could read it to me. She opened the book and began to read. She read the entire book! I asked her why she never told me she could read, she softly said, "I didn't know I could read, and I learned today."

Now, I Know MY ABC'S

December 1, 2008

As we took a late night stroll, in our neighborhood, to see if we could see Venus & Mars, Alexis started to sing her ABC's. I've been trying to teach her this song for what seems like a couple of years now. So, off she went spouting out this song. To my surprise she had indeed learned it. She knows each letter and the sounds they make, but she just wouldn't learn the dang song til now! I told her, now we can sing the song together instead of by myself all the time. She just laughed and said yea!

A Yummy Buttery Spread

November 18, 2008

Alexis came home yesterday from school and thought it was the neatest thing ever to have made some homemade butter. She said they got some coffee milk or cream and put it in a little glass container and shook it up; what seemed like forever. She said it was soooooo good. She asked, if I wanted to try some when we got home. I did! It was very yummy, yet tasted a bit saltly to me! She didn't think they added salt though! I caught her several times, sneaking into the fridge (spoon in hand), to dip into and get another taste of the very yummy, buttery spread.

"Walle-E" Comes To Mind

October 21, 2008
When I picked Alexis up from school, she had a big zip-loc bag to show me. It was full of computer parts. She and her classmates had disassembled a computer. Ms. Inga's husband is a computer guy. That's what he does for a living. Alexis was so excited to get to "see" all the insides of a computer; to see what makes it work. Now, she has all of those parts scattered on top of her dresser. I'm wondering what she thinks she's going to do will all of those parts? Walle-E is coming to my mind!!!!! We are believing it's not coming to hers?

A "Loooooove This" Update!

October 6, 2008
Alexis is going on her 3rd week at her new school. She LOOOOOOOVES this new school. She loves it so much that she awakens each morning excited about going and hops right out of bed, gets dressed and off we go. She often wants me to speed so she can get there quicker. When I pick her up in the afternoons, she asks if I can come back later to get her. Departing from school, each afternoon, she commands that I turn around and take her right back. Alexis doesn't go to school on Fridays and is, OH!!! SO SAD. Ms. Inga deserves lots of kudos. I ask Alexis each day if she misses me? Her reply is a shake of her head from side-to-side rather than up & down. Sigh. She is beginning to understand the blending of letter sounds to create words. She knows the words "the" & "a" by sight. She just went on an adventure with Hopper; we'll tell you about that later.