Playing with Lights

I had a fun experiment this morning with my girls. The girls had wands that lit up and twirled around. Reagan wanted to be in a dark room to watch the lights. I ran to get my camera and started to take pictures. The shutter speed was super slow. I wasn't really sure what would turn out, but what did was pretty cool... at least for me.  I'll be she'll do that again with me.

Maddy's New Breakfast

Maddy has never been super interested in cereal each morning. That was Reagan's thing. Today I gave in and gave her a bagel with cream cheese. It was gone in 60 seconds. :)

Kindergarten or not

It's an interesting question - should we or not? First of all, we have to get her tested. I have no idea how that would turn out. Her teacher says she is more than smart enough to do it, but kids sometimes just decide they don't want to do things. She's at that age. So even if she passes, do we send her? We don't know.

The thing that frustrates me is that she's bored. She tells me that every once in a while that she's bored at school. Is she? Or is she really being silly? I wonder sometimes if she would thrive more with the structure of school. I'm not sure. I think if she had it and got the constant reinforcement, she'd love it. I watch her when I push her and she does really well.

I don't know.

Reagan and her math skills

Reagan is really working hard at her math skills and her reading. tonight, we were playing with her tag. She realized that she had only four items left to do and she had completed one. That means "there are five mommy". See, (skipping over the first one silently) here's two, three, four and this one is five, but I already did that one". Then she kept going "and if you take away the first one I already did, that means I just have four left." It made me dizzy. But she's really thinking about this stuff.

Some days she pops out with some really crazy answers.

She's also finally starting to show and interest in reading. She's been doing sight words with us for a while, but I feel like something has clicked with her in the last week. So proud of my little girl.