This Weekend

In an effort to avoid packing, (we close TODAY!) Ive decided to blog some of the pictures from this past weekend. We took the kids to the duckpark for Hannah's first trip there. She loved it. Or she would have if she had stayed awake long enough to look around. Daddy was wearing her in the Bjorn and after a few minutes of fussing she conked out. Caitlin and Matthew enjoyed the playground as usual and tried out some new tricks.

Here are the pictures:

Hannah still has pretty bad jaundice..her numbers have only gone down to 12, so we have started taking her over to Nana's house to get in the sun. She's our little exhibitionist; takes off her clothes and sits in front of the window half-naked. And LOVES it! As soon as the sun hits her little body she stretches out like a cat and goes right to sleep-its so cute!

Today I had Caitlin and Matthew's conference at preschool; they are both doing very well. Caitlin has "mastered" all of the concepts except for 1. learning her phone number (ive never taught her since we only use our cell phones. However her teacher says I need to do so...hopefully she'll get it pretty quickly) and 2. counting past 49; apparently she goes from 49 to 80. Barbara (her teacher) said that when she gets to kindergarten there is a "100 Club" that all the kids want to be in, but you can only get in if you can count from 1-100 without any help. So i foresee quite a bit of counting in our future.

Matthew's teacher was kind enough to squeeze us in this morning for his conference as well so we didn't have to make 2 trips to the preschool at 730am this week. He is also doing very well. His teacher is really great; she really tries to teach them instead of just doing open play all the time (which is what Caitlin did last year). So he is learning to recognize all his uppercase letters, numbers, and his own name (he's having a bit of trouble with that) He also is learning to trace and to sort things by color, size and shape. Overall Annette (his teacher) was pleased with his progress, and was very complimentary toward his behavior.

So it was a good conference day. Hannah Bo was not all that well behaved there; she cried and squirmed until i picked her up. But I guess she has a few years to learn to behave at preschool right?