First day of school 2012

I actually got a picture taken of all three of them this year!!  Samuel is in the 4th grade which means he got to move to building B and is now a "Big kid!"  Jacque is in the 3rd grade and is the oldest class of Building A.  Calista is in the 1st grade and gets to go full day every day this year!!!  We are all excited for this new school year and the exciting things that will happen.  They were all happy when they got home from school yesterday but also very tired.  It's amazing how much energy school takes out of you.  Each of them really like their teachers too.  Yesterday the girls were up and dressed before 7am, which is understandable being the first day of school.  But this morning all three of them were up and dressed before 7am too!  I'm glad that they are excited for school!

How did you know that?

We have loved our fridge phonics.  We were first introduced to them when Calista was 18 months old and we were at our cousins, the Gees' house.  I don't know if it is the music that goes with it, or the colorful letters, but the toddlers love to play with it, and end up learning so much from it.  They also love to take the different letters off and play with them around the house.  I find them all over the place.  Last Monday, Aaron had someone over and was in the middle of a guitar lesson, when Sarah brought a letter over to the couch where I was sitting and started playing with it.  She tried tickling me with it and fun things like that, but kept saying "I" as she was holding it.  I finally decided to look and see what letter she was holding.  It was a lowercase I.  I didn't think too much about that, because I figured she just knew that I was a letter and probably called each of them that.  But just to make sure, we grabbed a few more letters.  We held up an F and sure enough she said I again.  Then we grabbed the O and she said O.  We grabbed a W and she said, "doub-u."  We grabbed an S and she said "sssssss."  We ended up going through most of the letters and no, she didn't know all of them, but I was really impressed with how many she did know because no one has actually sat down and worked with her, and besides that she's only now decided that she can talk, so there aren't many words she will willingly say.  I know she can say more than she does, but to hear her cute little voice say "doub-u" was lots of fun.