Family update

So, last week, I substitute taught for Christina, whose plans for Nolan went something like this: "Everything that Maura is doing, plus start blending letters and sounds."  Dutifully getting through as much as I could prior to going to work, I sat down with Nolan to begin this whole blending thing.  In about five minutes, we'd gone through the "-at", -"as", and "-ap" families, and put different consonants in front of them.  With a little coaching, he got them all.

Fastforward to yesterday afternoon.  After the normal greetings to one and all, I am greeting with this incredulous statement: "YOU DIDN'T TELL ME NOLAN CAN READ!!!!" So apparently during school, Christina sat down to do blending with him again.  According to Christina, the interaction went something like this:  "What's this word?" "Map."  "What about this one? "Cap."  "This one?" "Mat."  The last one, apparently was given in the tone "Stop boring me and let me get back to playing with my dinosaurs which are eating playdough."  There was no instruction necessary, he just did it...with the attitude that he could do it all along, so whats the big deal?  This is the same kid who for months couldn't care less about writing his name and then all of a sudden with no practice just wrote it.

In the meantime, Maura, who thoroughly HATES handwriting was eager to write Cinderella loves Christmas! and Aurora is pretty.  She did both beautifully, and unfortunately, she has better handwriting than I do.  Oh, she'll be moving on to First Grade Math within the month, too.

And while that is going on, Colleen is cutting her first tooth.  Apparently her teeth finally realized that they were needed, because, you see, she's been eating solid food since she was six months old...remember she skipped right over the whole processed babyfood thing.