Double Word.....SCORE!!!!

Many of you may feel very sorry for me that I am now playing Scrabble with Mom. She has a reputation for being a very, very nasty sport when it comes to board games. Fortunately, I am cute so she goes easy on me. We've been running a little low on educational afternoon activities, so we thought this would be fun. I'm doing pretty well, I just don't quite understand why I can't build off the end of a word that is already started. Plus, 3 letter words don't exactly spread out the board too well. We'll have to look into getting Scrabble Jr. We don't keep advanced scores for now, just adding up the letter points. Bonus, good for the math skills too!

I've been working on tying my shoes. I don't actually have any tie shoes, other than my cleats, so we made this giant cardboard shoe which helps. I do really well up to until that whole part where I have to swoop the loop. What's wrong with Velcro shoes forevah?

My teacher has been sending home practice sheets for writing our names. They are really big on staying between the "sky" and the "ground" and doing the stroke order correctly. Big word of advice to anyone trying to teach a preschooler to write -- invest in a writing tablet that demonstrates the correct stroke order! Mom had unknowingly taught me "incorrect" stroke order for some letters and trying to reverse that in my wee little head has been tricky. It's the whole doing something over 21 times before you can correct the behavior. Top to bottom, left to right, top to bottom, left to right.....these are the words that play over in Mom's head while she sleeps. However, even with the changes AND the fact I have a snazzy "pencil pillow" on my pencil to correct my grip, my penmanship is coming along swimmingly. I made Mom write to 100 yesterday with the pencil pillow on and she's been complaining about her thumb hurting all day. You think my tripod grip is bad, you should see the way she lobster claws the pencil. The conformity of kindergarten and adherence to the "Kindergarten Way" makes Mom a little twitchy, but I suppose these teachers are just trying their best to prepare the kids for a lifetime of learning. But I'm still going to color my toast purple, so bleh.

Talk about some weather we're having here! We just took the canopy/tent/gazebo/giant lawn dart down and we could really use the shade right now! Oh well, enjoy it while it lasts. Soon we'll be whining just for a glimpse of the sun.

So there's my updates....judging by the blog lately, seems like all we do is party and crash weddings around here. Don't you worry, I'm keeping my nose to the grindstone.

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K