Energy!

Reagan always seems to have a ton of energy. She wakes up grumpy every day, but very quickly she perks up and is moving on. She  loves to jump around and play chase with Maddy. The giggling and screaming might be the best part of the day. It's so fun to watch them play. It's so cute to watch Reagan be the big sister.

Playing together

The girls have really started to play together well. Reagan still gets upset when we tell her to not be rough with her little sister, but overall she's doing so well. They really seem to enjoy each other more and more each day. Tonight, we put them both in the bath together. When getting their baths, they tend to poke at each other and have fun. Jim actually soaped Maddy's hair up so much that it stuck straight up. That just meant that Reagan wanted to mess with it.

After soaping up and rinsing off, they were able to just hang out and play. They usually start off on opposites ends of the tub and stay that way. Tonight they actually ended up on the same side of the tub playing together so nicely. Reagan has a cool boat that spits out water. They both got so involved and so excited they played well together. I just sat back and watched.

I pray they will develop a tight bond as sisters. They are just so darn fun to watch when they play.

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.

Reagan's swim lesson

Reagan had her second private swim lesson tonight. Her teacher is very good with her. She is very strong with her and really works with her well. I tried not to watch too much just in case I made her nervous. She was able to do so much more in a private lesson than she ever did in her entire swim course with a group. She had her gliding and floating and pushing off the wall. She held her breath under water and blew bubbles for five seconds. All so much more than we ever got her to do before. I'm hoping she will get over her fear of water on her face soon. She's doing so well. I"m so proud.