Cheeky Little Monkey's

These gorgeous little munchkins have changed so much in the past month, I cant get over it. It is fascinating watching them grow and mature into lovely young ladies. We have had some rough times adjusting to new schedules, new schools, new friends, new surroundings. But, we seem to have started to settle down and adapt to our new chapter in our life. Masie is doing wonderful, she started off not really liking 2nd grade but the last few days I have seen her in a different light. She is looking at school in a different way and realizing that if she works at it and really listens she is really good at it. Her reading is coming along brilliantly, they get a bunch of homework with little chapters to read and we have to time them and see how many words they read in a minute, at first she struggled but now she is learning how to sound words out quickly and continue with the story, I will have to video clip her next time. She is so excited to do her first book report this week, she told me today she wants to finish it tonight so we will see. Over all I'm so impressed with her and she has impressed me this past week and I hope it continues, as I was a little worried she didn't really care about school anymore.

Taylor, I was very worried about Taylor up until about a week ago, she cried in the morning when she realized it was a school day and when she got home she would throw temper tantrums and had to be sent to her room to calm down. Her teacher said she didnt speak in class but does do everything asked of her. Now she really enjoys school and tells me all about her day, her favourite part of the day is music. A few things that have impressed me over the past few days that she has said:

1. Robot has two syllables
2. Masie, Hailey and Taylor all have 'a' as the second letter in their names.
3. There are vowels and consonants.
4. If the answer is 10 and you already have 6 then you just need 4 more.

So I'm very impressed with her, she loves to do her homework and tries to write books and letters.

Hailey, she is doing amazing!! Her speech is coming on great and she has finally started mixing with the other children at her school. Her teachers noticed at the beginning that she would never play with her peers, she would play near them but not with them. She has a best friend at school called Brooke, she is such a sweet little girl. She tells me the songs she has learnt, what pictures they drew and usually the title of the story they read in circle time. She still cries occasionally when I leave but calms within seconds. I'm so pleased with her.

I'm so pleased with all my girls, I have their parent/teacher conferences next week so we will see what they say.