Sonya wrote:

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I can't believe the babies who brought us together are 5!

What's going on in their lives?

School? She starts Kindergarten Aug. 24 I cannot wait!

Bikes? She has one. Im too lazy to take her outside to ride it so shes probably really bad at it.

Friends? Has a few but again Im too lazy for playdates often but she goes to church with them and will go to school with them at the church this year.

Reading? She can read basic words and is good at guessing some words in context.

Writing? She writes ok but I hear our school is super strict with penmanship. They also do Cursive in Kindergarten and she hasnt started that yet.

Drawing?
Sometimes shes good and sometimes she sucks.

Sports? NO sports she used to do ballet but stopped. I dont think  shes a sports kid though. She was outside 15 minutes the other day at church and fainted. She tends to faint fairly easy if she gets hurt or is hot.

Pictures, please!

None on this comp. Maybe Ill get one out later.

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I know, I can't believe it either! It goes by too fast.



School?  He will be starting kindergarten in August.

Bikes?  He has a small 2 wheel with training wheels that he is finally good at riding although he doesn't watch where he is going so I have to help him stay on track! 

Friends? Doesn't really have any, he did at school but now that it is out there aren't any in our neighborhood for him to play with, I am not comfortable with him going to anybody's house so even if he did have friends I don't know that they would get to hang out alot. He has 2 cousins that he spends alot of time with and my friend has a 3 1/2 year old that we try to get them together pretty often.

Reading?  He loves for me to read to him, has not picked up on it yet.

Writing? Has been writing for awhile now, can spell his name and write all letters, pretty legible too and he is left handed.

Drawing? Not into it as much, he used to do it ALL the time but not so much anymore.

Sports? None yet.

Pictures, please!

 

I can't believe they're FIVE!

School?
Kyle will be starting a Montessori Kindergarten program at the local public school on Aug. 17

Bikes?
Not yet, but he'll be getting one for his bday on the 19th.

Friends?
No new ones here since we moved, but he still talks about his friend, Liam, often.  We had a chance to visit his old friends from school at the end of April, it was fun.  We've been able to meet up with Kiera and Rhys a few times and hope to see them more.

Reading?
He can sound out simple words and read short sentences, but he doesn't want to read on his own very often.

Writing?
Again, he can but would rather not do it often.  I feel like his penmanship went way downhill after we moved and since he's not been in school. :(

Drawing?
He prefers to color pictures but will draw from time to time.

Sports?
Nothing at the moment and it's been awhile.  I would like to sign him up for soccer, t-ball or basketball soon.

Pictures, please!



-- Edited by Jo on Wednesday 7th of July 2010 07:45:45 PM

Jo, Kyle is so handsome!!! I LOVE that pic of him and Katelyn.

I think that will be the story of our lives, then forgetting things over the summer. Maybe year round school isn't such a bad idea after all...

Sonya wrote:

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I can't believe the babies who brought us together are 5!

What's going on in their lives?

School?  She'll be starting Kindergarten this fall

Bikes? Loves to ride them, with training wheels still

Friends?  She has lots of friends, only Allie has been over for playdates

Reading?  Sort of

Writing?  Loves to write, does it all the time.  Loves to spell any and all words, lol

Drawing? She's all the time coloring and drawing!!  LOVES it!

Sports? She played t-ball this year for the first time and loved it so much.  She wants to play soccer this fall, so we'll see :)

Pictures, please!

This is one I cropped of me and her that I love and one from her t-ball game:

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What's going on in their lives?

School? She's starting half-day kindergarten in the fall. To say I'm nervous is pretty much the understatement of the year. Probably doesn't help that we are both starting school at about the same time, lol.

Bikes? She's riding with training wheels. She wants us to take her out after her birthday without them. But, we need to get knee pads and elbow pads, and I need some kind of heavier anti-anxiety meds.

Friends? She has a circle of girlfriends that are really cute to watch play. Her "bff" changes like the wind, depending on who she's seen that day (or if she's seen someone that day, depending on how much they gave her her way, lol). She has a little boyfriend that it's really adorable to watch her interact with. He's such a boy and is SO not interested in any of her shananigans.

Reading? She's doing really well! She knows all her letter sounds and is doing really well putting them together... Learning on the rules is hard for her, but I'm not pushing her. She sets her own pace, and when she's interested she's REALLY interested. If she's not, there's no talking to her!

Writing? We've been slacking lately, but she loves to write grocery lists for me and watch me try to figure them out, lol. I stopped worrying about it when she wrote "Hannah haz a stoopid mom." on her wall during a time out. I'm sure she'll do fine, lol.

Drawing? She draws better than I do, lol.

Sports? She's played basketball and soccer, and loved both. She wants to do gymnastics, soccer, basketball, softball (next spring), and dance this year. She'll have to prioritize what she wants to do the most, especially since she's going to be in school. She's really into horseback riding, too. She's going to a daycamp in a couple of weeks, where she'll get to ride, bathe, brush, and feed her horse, so we'll see how she feels after all that work.

Pictures, please!

I've been sucking at taking pictures lately, but here are two of the most recent... one from 4th of July weekend, and the other is of her getting ready for my niece's wedding last month.

Dang, I wrote a novel. Oops!

Sonya wrote:

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I can't believe the babies who brought us together are 5!

What's going on in their lives? Mark started swimming lessons on Monday. He's doing great although he's still mad that he has to put his face in the water. Also, he's not 5 until Monday. His bday party (a water party in our backyard) is on Sunday.

School? Mark starts full-day K in mid-August. He went to "Kindergarten Camp" for a week in June, and he loved it.

Bikes? Mark has a red bike with training wheels. We haven't tried without the training wheels yet.

Friends? Mark is the complete opposite of Henry. Mark has a gazillion friends. He wanted to invite his entire preschool class plus our neighbors plus some other friends plus his friends' siblings to his party. He ALWAYS wants to invite people to the house for playdates. Social butterfly.

Reading? Mark is not reading and can't recognize all of the letters although he's getting better.

Writing? Mark loves to write and trace letters. His fave thing to do is create letters out of other things like sticks or bendaroos.

Drawing? Mark likes to draw and is pretty good at it. He really likes making smiley faces.

Sports? He is not really into any sports although I think he's interested in starting soccer in the fall. He likes to jump on our trampoline and play in the pool.

Pictures, please!

 

 

Sonya wrote:

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I can't believe the babies who brought us together are 5!

What's going on in their lives?

School?

Bikes?

Friends?

Reading?

Writing?

Drawing?

Sports?

Pictures, please!

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Holly turned 5 on June 14th; I'm still in shock! 5 going on 13, I swear.

She's out of pre-K now; graduation is on the 16th.

No bike; she has the German pedal-less one but she's not big into it right now.

Her BFF Haley is gonna go to a different elementary school than she will. I'm sooo bummed for her. They've gone to each other's birthday parties and that's about it outside of school.

Holly can read most/all of the stories in many Dr. Seuss-type books, some Frog and Toad, stuff like that. She's constantly making cards (think: birthday cards, etc.) that say things like "Holly loves Mommy" and things like that; we go through a LOT of paper here! Her "y" can use some work, but she has a recognizable alphabet. She can usually read my handwriting, which is about 95% cursive and pretty loopy; not sure how she manages that.

(And no, she can't spell her last name, lol...as often as I have to spell it out loud over the phone though, she'll get it sooner than later!)

She draws all the time...better than I do.

No sports so far, no real interest (also like her mom!).

So cool to see what everyone's up to!

(and yes, that is an LL bow )

-- Edited by Sunshine on Thursday 8th of July 2010 01:39:55 AM

-- Edited by Sunshine on Thursday 8th of July 2010 01:48:00 AM

School?   She will start K Aug. 11.

Bikes?   She just got a bike a couple of weeks ago and using training wheels.

Friends?  Most were school friends that she doesn't see in the summer.  I wish she had more neighborhood friends and then I don't.

Reading?  She was beginning to read at the end of preschool.

Writing?   She writes all her letter and numbers and puts together some words but that's about it.

Drawing? Drawing is still a mess.   She puts toes and fingers on her stick figures.  I thought that was interesting.LOL

Sports?   Soccer so far.  She had to skip the summer session because of her broken wrist.  She loves soccer so she will do that in the fall.  Actually she wants to do everything.

I don't have any new pictures on the computer.  From April.







-- Edited by Alicia on Thursday 8th of July 2010 11:22:44 AM