Better Late Than Never

Ryan started his new preschool in September. He is so happy there, and we are very happy with this program. This preschool has the community feel that we were looking for. Parents at this school are involved in everything. Sanjay is the 2nd VP on the parent board. I am the room mom as well as involved in several committees. We love his teacher and Ryan has many nice kids in his class. His teacher is pretty impressed with how smart Ryan is. He can count to 140, then he will usually say, "I am done doing this." We recently have started doing flash card sight words. I am happy to report that Ryan knows 15- 20 sight words and will pick them out when we are reading together. I'm sure it is only a matter of time before he is reading to us.

Although Ryan is very smart, I am reminded daily that he is only 3 and does not know everything. We go over his letter of the week at home. Last week the letter was "C."

He will say, "Mommy, let's do 'C' words." To which I respond, "Sure." He will usually list a few of his favorites; cook, cat, clown, then says,"OK, Mommy, your turn." I will add things like; cloud, crackers, cup. Then my very smart 3 year old says,"Mommy, my turn (while looking out the window or around his room, depending on where we are) how about dresser?" "No, Ryan, dresser starts with the letter D." Then he will say," Book, teeth, paper, blanket, tree." I usually respond with, "Ryan you can't just look around and name everything you see it has to have the "C" sound at the beginning of the word, like CCCcomputer."
"Mommy, I am done doing this." Without fail we will have this conversation at least once a day, sometimes twice. It makes me laugh. He is happy to do it when he is confident with the words he knows. Once he starts to get them wrong, he is done. I'm sure he will catch on at some point. After all he is only 3.

Regan is 11 Months old!!

Each month it is more difficult to take Regan's picture. This month we tried a standing picture as well as a sitting one. Regan loves to pull up into a standing position these days. She stands everywhere, in her crib, in the pack n play, wherever she is playing, she is standing. She has let go only once and fell down and has not tried again. She has no interest in trying to walk which is fine with me. I'm not ready for her to be that mobile. This month she has been signing "more" and is babbling a lot. She loves to sit in her room and flip through books, she also likes when we sing to her. She especially likes it when we sing her the A,B,C's.

Regan has four teeth, 2 bottom, 2 top with a third top one coming in. Her second top tooth came through right around her 11 month birthday. She kicks her legs like crazy when we lay her down for diaper changes and will try to flip over immediately. When we try to stop her from flipping over, she gets very upset and yells. She is determined to get what she wants, and is quite strong too. She is still a good eater and a good sleeper. Although she has always been a one nap girl, I am happy to report that her one, one hour nap has now turned into one, 2- 3 hour nap. I think all of the moving around makes her extra sleepy.

Regan gets very excited when she sees people she recognizes. Each morning when I bring her in to see Ryan and Sanjay, she squeals with delight and waves to them. When people she doesn't recognize talk to her, she smiles at them and lays her head on my shoulder. She is a sweet baby. I cannot believe she will be one in a month. TIme has really gone by so quickly!