Day Three

Addie woke up this morning and told me that she didn't feel like going to school today. Gee, that was short-lived enthusiasm for this new routine, huh? After I explained to her that she had to go to school everyday that I worked, she managed to get dressed.

She chose her Hello Kitty dress to match her new Hello Kitty lunch bag from Uncle Jeremy and Aunt Amanda. She even wore her Hello Kitty bracelet, but not in this picture.

I didn't get any emails from her teacher today. In trying to encourage her to make other friends, I asked her this morning to ask four friends what their favorite color and songs are and to report back to me. When I got home, she said she asked only one friend named Regean, "but either she didn't answer or I didn't listen" so we'll never know what Regean's favorite color and song are.

In her nightly folder was her "monthly calendar" which documents your child's behavior each day. The note explains that they use a stop light approach in her class, where all students start our on green light in the morning and throughout the day if they don't follow directions or make bad choices, they move to yellow light. If then this continues after multiple warnings, they move to red light. "All students know red light is not a good place to be." :) She asked that we review the behavior for each day and praise the green lights and talk about bad choices if it's red. Never have I hesitated to so much to turn a page over to see September 1's color: a green smiley face. Phew! Addie did tell me that there are two boys who already had a red light.

That's all from here. During the day Muddy has been taking Ben to the park and then come back home where he does a ton of school work sheets. He loves it and is learning stuff too. Kindergarten is going to be a breeze for Addie- right now they are at "put three letters in a hat, pull one out and name the letter." Really? Ben could've done that last year.

Ben was asleep by 7:30 tonight and Addie wasn't much further behind him. Lovin' this school thing! :)