I've been thinking about when to do Gracie's 5th birthday party. I kinda wanna do it at like the end of Aug or early September, because I want to do a tie-dye party. She LOVES to tie-dye, and they make kits for it. Her birthday is in October, so it is never predictable weather.
I can't believe she is going to be 5. Holy Crap. I can remember the day she was born. I was two weeks late with her, and I had gone to the dr's for a non stress test and it showed that she wasn't doing as well as they wanted. so they then proceeded to do everything ass backwards (which I didn't know until I took my OB class last semester), which then lead to tachy systolic contractions which lead me to being 3 seconds away from having to have a c-section, which then lead to a precipitous (really fast-under three hours) birth and placental complications. Thank you Oswego, for having your heads up your ass and not even bothering to tell me me what was going on, and have me figure it out 4 years later in my OB class.
Thank God I had no complications there with Madalyn. haha. Her's went pretty smoothly.
I remember when Gracie was a few weeks after her first birthday and she met Paul and Laurie. They both fell in love with her and it wasn't long until she was calling them "Grandma Laurie and Papa".
Now, she is reading. She can read pages of Hop on Pop, and she can write her alphabet. She recognizes the numbers, but can't draw them. And she has an attitude the size of Mt. Everest.
I don't remember her walking. I remember she walked early tho. At like ten months, but I don't remember her first steps. :-( Prolly cuz by then I was working and going to school full time. She spent more time at daycare than with me, it seemed.
When she was like 11 months old she would go "whats that" to EVERYTHING and point and continually say that. She still asks a million questions. Last night she said "Why are there roads" Well. goodness. She is always asking questions that she KNOWS the answers to. Like with the geese and my mom. We were on our way to the park to meet my mom a few months ago and she asked what the geese ate. I said "grass, bugs, fish and stuff" and then she went home with my mom and on the way home asked my mom the SAME question. My mom said "bugs and grass and stuff" and Gracie goes "NOO. THEY ALSO EAT FISH." haha.
Goodness Gracious. Hard to believe she is going to be 5 in just a few short months. I have been working with her on her reading and stuff, and soon I will get the Kindergarten homeschooling books from my mom and work with her on that stuff since Kindergarten doesn't have to be reported anyways. We will figure out next year what we are going to do, as far as school. She doesn't technically have to start school until first grade, so until she is 6 going on 7. For as long as we are in the Syracuse City School District, I want to homeschool her. We are hoping to move next year to Phoenix or Camillus, so we'll see what happens.
Madalyn is talking a (little) bit more. But mostly she is my silent child. Sometimes she will get into these kicks where all she does is talk, but not often. That's ok. She'll be my silent genius. I got the report from the Early Intervention people and she scored wonderfully on every area, except expressive (obviously) and if she still continues to pronounce things in an odd mann (leaving off the first sound of a word) then to have her re-evaluated in 6 months for the preschool EI, because they work on pronunciation. I am sure she will catch up soon enough, tho.
These girls are fighting like cats and dogs all the time now. Well, worse than cats and dogs, because our cat and dog don't fight. haha. And, madalyn is on the screeching mode. gosh. I HATE that. and Gracie was pretty much outta that phase, unless daddy starts messing around with her, but now when her and Madalyn start fighting, Madlayn starts screeching, so Gracie does, so I start yelling. haha.
Madalyn has this weird affixation with her "bip bops". she won't take them off, anywhere. and she even wore them in the shower the other day, and I had to force them off her. At least, now when I tell her they are Minnie Mouse and NOT Mickey Mouse, she says "mimi mou" and not her vehemently denying Minnie Mouse and saying " NOOOO Micka Mou!!!!". haha
Ok. I'm off. Until Tomorrow <3
Now, she is reading. She can read pages of Hop on Pop, and she can write her alphabet. She recognizes the numbers, but can't draw them. And she has an attitude the size of Mt. Everest.
I don't remember her walking. I remember she walked early tho. At like ten months, but I don't remember her first steps. :-( Prolly cuz by then I was working and going to school full time. She spent more time at daycare than with me, it seemed.
When she was like 11 months old she would go "whats that" to EVERYTHING and point and continually say that. She still asks a million questions. Last night she said "Why are there roads" Well. goodness. She is always asking questions that she KNOWS the answers to. Like with the geese and my mom. We were on our way to the park to meet my mom a few months ago and she asked what the geese ate. I said "grass, bugs, fish and stuff" and then she went home with my mom and on the way home asked my mom the SAME question. My mom said "bugs and grass and stuff" and Gracie goes "NOO. THEY ALSO EAT FISH." haha.
Goodness Gracious. Hard to believe she is going to be 5 in just a few short months. I have been working with her on her reading and stuff, and soon I will get the Kindergarten homeschooling books from my mom and work with her on that stuff since Kindergarten doesn't have to be reported anyways. We will figure out next year what we are going to do, as far as school. She doesn't technically have to start school until first grade, so until she is 6 going on 7. For as long as we are in the Syracuse City School District, I want to homeschool her. We are hoping to move next year to Phoenix or Camillus, so we'll see what happens.
Madalyn is talking a (little) bit more. But mostly she is my silent child. Sometimes she will get into these kicks where all she does is talk, but not often. That's ok. She'll be my silent genius. I got the report from the Early Intervention people and she scored wonderfully on every area, except expressive (obviously) and if she still continues to pronounce things in an odd mann (leaving off the first sound of a word) then to have her re-evaluated in 6 months for the preschool EI, because they work on pronunciation. I am sure she will catch up soon enough, tho.
These girls are fighting like cats and dogs all the time now. Well, worse than cats and dogs, because our cat and dog don't fight. haha. And, madalyn is on the screeching mode. gosh. I HATE that. and Gracie was pretty much outta that phase, unless daddy starts messing around with her, but now when her and Madalyn start fighting, Madlayn starts screeching, so Gracie does, so I start yelling. haha.
Madalyn has this weird affixation with her "bip bops". she won't take them off, anywhere. and she even wore them in the shower the other day, and I had to force them off her. At least, now when I tell her they are Minnie Mouse and NOT Mickey Mouse, she says "mimi mou" and not her vehemently denying Minnie Mouse and saying " NOOOO Micka Mou!!!!". haha
Ok. I'm off. Until Tomorrow <3
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