I have been spending the past several days (since giving notice at the last job) doing house-y things: prepping the laundry room for having the floors redone (they’re water-damaged), trying to get rid of old stuff, and cleaning, cleaning, cleaning. I have also literally spent hours trying to figure out childcare (reviewing nanny applications) and summer camp schedules! But, I also wanted to spend some extra time with Thing 3.
When Dylan and Cameron were her age, we went to story time regularly and I was reminded of just how precious that time is when I took Chloe these past couple of Thursdays. She loved it. She was so reserved and timid during the interactive part, but I got to enjoy her burrowing into my neck and staying close to me the entire time! When it was just her and me at the activity table, she was back to her old chatty self!
The first week, the theme was “Transportation” (we have discovered that they are working their way through the alphabet) so the activity involved pasting some tracks and train cars (and other little decor, like butterflies and such) on to a piece of paper. Simple, but enjoyable.
This past Thursday, we did undersea critters and Chloe made lovely cupcake wrapper fish with sparkly bubbles. I discovered she is really good at writing her own name!
We have seen samples of Chloe’s writing development from preschool “journals”, but a lot of them had dots to guide letter formation, or the letters were out of order. Last week, Chloe had me make the dots to trace. This past week, she wrote her name all by herself!
Sometimes I wonder if she’s really ready for Kindergarten already, but then I think that it’s best to probably best to wait another year. Although she is getting pretty good at number recognition, counting to 20, and improving on writing her name, she still has not begun to write numbers (I don’t think)!
