What We Are Doing

Kate will be going into 1st grade next week! She is excited for two recesses and being able to eat in the cafeteria. The joys of all day school. :) She is kind of nervous about her teacher and classroom since it will be all new. I think she will do just fine. It's all new to me too since I don't know any teachers at the school. She did swim lessons this summer and will probably do a ballet class again this year. She really wants a bigger bike, likes watching you tube videos (we have to monitor those!), likes to play with friends, play with barbies, color and dress her dolls. She went and stayed with my parent's for a week while I was at Girl's Camp and she's still talking about it. She loves her cousins (they squeal when they see each other) and loves to swim. She's emotional (uggh!) and very persistent (not like me ;)).

Preston will be starting his second year of preschool. He will be at a new school this year. He went to a different school last year, another school for summer preschool and now a new one! Three schools in a year! Yikes! He will be with his teacher from summer school. She wanted him in her class. She's teaching this class where there are 4 kids with Austism, 4 kids with developmental delay (Preston will be one of those) and then 4 typical kids. We felt good about it and I have a friend from my ward that her son was in a class like that and she was very happy with it. His class last year had 12 kids with differing levels of delays. I think this new class will be great. We took him to his eye appt and was told to have him wear his glasses more (he got them several months ago and I haven't been having him wear them) and to patch his good eye more consistently so his bad eye will get strengthened. I guess your eyes develop until age 8 and then they are done. So to get the best vision from his bad eye we need to make him use it more. We patch every other day for 4 hours. He doesn't like it, but is good about leaving it on until we tell him he can take it off and boy is he ever excited to take it off! Lindsey is the one that will rip off his glasses and/or patch so we have to keep her away from him. He loves trains, Thomas TV shows, playing with cars from the Cars movie, doing puzzles and playing on the iPad. He will ride the neighbors trikes, but not his own. He still has his quirks and gets frustrated with transitioning to different things and sharing toys/taking turns, but he's improving. Too bad you can't snap your fingers and have everything be fixed. ;)

Lindsey is climbing everything. She is very entertaining to watch. She likes to plop herself down on your face, arm, leg, stomach...it doesn't matter to her. When Kate dances, Lindsey joins in and gets herself dizzy. Even her mini tantrums are funny. Kate thinks she is the funniest baby we have ever had! haha! (I tell Kate that she was a funny baby too!) She waves hi/bye, says mama and dada and then pretend talks like she knows what she is saying. She screams when you take something away from her that she wants and she teases Preston by taking his trains from him. She runs away fast! She really is fun to have around. It's amazing how different she is than Preston when he was a baby. Development does wonders! She's still taking 2 naps, but not sure how much longer that will last. She's an early riser, up at 6:30 am or earlier! not good! She's a pretty good eater and is hanging onto a few chubby rolls. Here eyes are definitely brown (all the other cousins and my kids have blue so she's the first) and her hair is getting longer. Fun times!