To do or not to do....that is a choice that everyone who has children has to make before they can believe it. Jaylin and Kaylee will be 4 in just a couple of weeks....wow! So that means that most kids start preschool if they haven't already. I always thought that I would just do preschool at home with the girls...I had a teaching degree ( I will explain the past tense at a later date). I can handle teaching two kids for 2 years...right! We shall see what happens....I am not concerned that they won't know the material need to sail through Kindergarten, it is the social interaction that they will not get from being taught at home. Again I wasn't that concerned about that when we first started thinking about all of this a few years ago, but after a week long camp in a preschool setting, I realize that they will need a lot more than I have offered since we have moved.
I said week long camp....that is right, the girls were signed up for a week of preschool just this last week and they absolutely loved it. Jaylin, my kid who would rather sleep in, perked right up the second day when I had to wake them up to get ready and said, "Mom, I get to go to school today!" With the biggest eyes and the biggest smile she has ever had when she woke up...that is saying a lot coming from her! The week was going well and every time I went to pick them up they were having fun and very excited, smiles from ear to ear....even Kaylee who has some social anxiety issues was excited to go and had fun.
Actually Kaylee has switched things up on me again lately. She used to be scared to death of "big" kids at the playground....now there is almost no fear, she just makes sure she avoids them and is able to problem solve with out freaking out if they are in her way.....I am so glad that she has came around with that issue! Adult men on the other hand, unless you are Dad or Grandpa Doug, she still doesn't want anything to do with them for the first 30 mins of being around them. Brett plays ball with the guys from work on Wed and we usually go. She still doesn't warm up to them very quickly even though we see them at least once a week. Women on the other hand....she is usually fine with after just a couple of minutes.
This has never been much of an issue with Jaylin....unless she is tired or hungry, she warms up to almost anyone right away. At least that is how it has been this past year....she could change again. I remember when she was younger she was a mamma's girls for a good portion of her toddler days! She wasn't when she was an infant, but she went through a phase where she was. Kaylee for the most part is a mamma's girl's and I think the only time she wasn't was when Jaylin was, so it worked out well!
Anyway, the neighbors are both starting preschool this year and I have already explained to them that during the "school" year, mom is going to be your teacher. Next summer we can do some more camps like we did this year. Right now they seam fine with that and I pray that when the time comes that they will be.
One of the downfalls with Preschool is when your kids get sick.....yep that happened this last week. We always seam to get sick when we have something fun to do. In May I had some family that had to cancel b/c the girls got sick and we missed a first b-day party. This time Jaylin missed 2 of the 5 days of preschool and while Kaylee wasn't sick, she went one of the two days, but didn't want to go the last day without her sister.
We have decided that I will do it for a year and then if we want to enroll them in preschool next year we can. Either way, they have two years before they will start Kindergarten. They could start in one year, but we have decided for many reasons not to start them a couple of days after they turn 5. They will probably be ready academically, but they may need that extra year to be there emotionally and physically. They just aren't the biggest kids for their age!
Sorry, not a lot of pictures lately....the girls have their last night of tumbling on Monday and I am going to skip softball so I can go and I will get some pictures and a video. They are each to do a final routine of two of their favorite things they have learned to do...should be fun to see what the end up picking!
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Quotable Quotes from my Kids
- *I am going to start a running list things my kids say so that we have a record of them!*
- 11-26-09 Thanksgiving dinner. We are eating and begin talking about our favorite Thanksgiving food. We then got to talking about our favorite restraunts. After everyone has shared theirs, Kaylee pipes up, "I think Austin's favorite restraunt is mom."
- 11-25-09 Sitting at the table eating and discussing what they want for Christmas. Jaylin was describing the Barbie and the 3 muskateers movie and at the end of her description instead of telling about the whole movie she says, "Blah, Blah, Blah, Blah." Too funny and don't know where she picked that up!
- 11-15-09 Jaylin said, "He looks so cozy in his bed." If you ask them what they think of Austin, they both comment back, "He is so cute."
- 11-14-09 Kaylee was holding Austin and I came to sit down beside them. She then begin saying while pointing at herself first and then me. "I am not your momma, she is your momma. And no she doesn't have another baby in her tummy, it just looks like it!" She said this several times.
- 7-8-09 We have been watching 'America's Got Talent' with the girls and they love it. When they show the "not so talented acts," the girls definately have some funny reactions to the acts. Jaylin said, "what was that supposed to be mom?" Kaylee said, "that is definately not a talent, that would hurt!" That was after a man had his assistant staple money to his body...um yeah, not a talent! The really enjoy the young kids that perform and the dancing acts.
- 4-5-09 We sat down to eat this morning and when Jaylin was done eating she said, "I am a full Marvin now!" We say a lot as we are getting ready to eat, "are you a starvin Marvin?" Never thought they would call themselves a full Marvin...too funny!
- 2-3-09 Brett was down stairs replacing an electrically outlet and since he had to switch it out in the dark, the girls and I were holding flashlights so he could see what he was doing. As we were sitting there watching him screw the screws back in their appropriate spots...Jaylin says, "Gee dad, you are a good screwer." Poor kid had no idea why we were laughing and we weren't about to explain it!
- 2-2-09 I told the girls that we were going to Uncle Nathan's for a super bowl party. Jaylin dead serious comments, "Mom, Uncle Nathan doesn't have any bowls, how can we have a party at his house?" Little confused so I clearified that it had nothing to do with bowls, but about football. "Ok she said, Dad likes footbal!" Later while we were at Uncles Nathan's eating, she says,"Mom, thought we were going to eat in bowls?" So she still didn't get it! I reminded them that the super bowl game was on and told them that the Cardinals and the Steelers were playing. They resumed eating and later when we were sitting down and actually watching the game, Jaylin says, "Mom, what color is the takers team!" After laughing I told her the steelers are in the white and yellow!
- Jan 2009. I am not sure why they say this, but after I ask them a question and they know the answert to it, the sometimes say, "Ask me how I know that." Then when I asked them how they know that, they say "Because I am smart!" Not lacking any confidence right now :)
- 8-22-08 See the next comment to explain the background to this comment. I was playing ball on Friday night with one of the guys that Brett works with team. After a few minutes of being there, Jaylin runs up to Jeff and gives him a big hug and says, "Do you like my party shirt and my party shorts?" He just had to laugh and later asked what was the big deal with the clothes she had on.
- 8-16-08 Since the 4th of July Party, the clothes that each of wore for the party has been named by Jaylin and Kaylee as "our Party Clothes". Everytime we wear them the girls will make a comment. At the girls b-day party, Jaylin looks at me and says, "Mom you are beautiful, why are you wearing your party clothes?" Well honey, it is your birthday party, I thought it would be appropriate to wear our "party clothes"!
- 7-26-08 Kaylee out of the blue came up to me and said, "Just talked to Grandma and she said she was on her way down!" OK honey! Later it started to rain and she pipped up, "Mom, grandma just called and said she will come down tomorrow b/c it is raining." Can you tell the girls are ready to see their family!
- 7-26-08 It started to rain and Jaylin went to the patio door and as she was opening it, I said, "you can't go outside right now." "'I know mom,' and she opened the door anyway and said out the door, 'Thanks for the rain God!'"
- 7-25-08 As we were driving home with the windows down....Jaylin began shouting, "I love you Jesus and God. Hey mom can they hear me?" Yes honey, God and Jesus can always hear you. She then proceeded to tell Kaylee to say it as loud as she could. So both were shouting, "I love you God and Jesus." out the windows of the car!
- May-July 2008 When asked what their dad is, both of them usually respond, "my dad is a genius." Recently they have added cool to that. So now they say, "my dad is a cool genius!" I will get it on video tape before they are too old to disagree or think otherwise. Brett fed them the words in case your were wondering who taught them that....wasn't me!
- Sometime in 2008- Brett works on the renovation of the State House (Capital Building) and whenever we see it driving by, the girl's say, "There is Daddy's building."
- Started in May 2008- We have tried to teach the kids to use their manners all the time! Well, of course I still have to remind them to say thanks mom and one day I jokingly added, "you're the best." Well it stuck and they will usually say, "thanks mom, you're the best." That is fine at home, but not something I want them saying in public!!
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