Annie fell out of her crib the other day trying to climb out - so I converted her crib until we buy her her big girl bed in January. She loves it and is doing great sleeping at night. In the mornings she will get books from her bookshelf and read in bed or go into Mia's bed. Naps are not going so great. The first day I heard her playing in her bed then the next few days she basically scared the daylights out of me by all of a sudden standing in the kitchen! We will continue to work on that. Mia stopped napping for me at this age, we will see!
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Week recap

Last week Mia wrapped up swimming lessons. She is swimming underwater, jumping in, holding her breath and close to floating. We will continue lessons again over winter indoors. Thursday her best friend Sophie hung out with us all day. The girls all joined in Annie's musikgarten class.
Friday dad, Annie and Mia had a movie night while mommy had a girls night out with her friends. It was fun!
Sunday mom taught Sunday School (Mia told me I was a good teacher). And then we went to the Sheffield Garden Walk to see grandma's French horn concert. The kids had fun riding ponies, train, jump house, face painting and tatoos. Then we had dinner in Lincoln park.












The girls dressed like princesses going to music class




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Reading

Mia has been doing great reading. She's recognizing a great deal of sight words and using strong phonemic awareness to sound out words too. Her expression is great too. So proud of her.

Here she is reading, for the first time "The Little Cookie" by Margaret Hillert. Hillert is a great author for emerging readers.

Mia also has been doing great at writing sentences to match pictures to tell a story. She is using inventive spelling and sight word recognition. I was teaching this to my kindergarten kiddos mid year!



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New cousin

We traveled to columbus this weekend to meet Patrick Kenneth our new cousin/nephew and to celebrate Christopher's birthday. Mia slept over with Christopher and had a great time. Dad, Annie, papa and I stayed at the hotel. Annie and Mia love their new cousin - kept kissing him and rubbing him. Annie loved holding him The girls had fun playing with their cousins and aunts/uncle and papa.
On the way home we stopped at the Children's museum in indianapolis to break up the long drive. What a great museum! We loved the Lego, Dinosaur and Matchbox car exhibits. It's the biggest in the nation, it wasn't reciprocal to our membership but we went anyhow. After lunch we headed home.
































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Yesterday after swim lessons we met Grandma, Aunt Stacy and Jonah at the children's museum in Glenview. We had lunch at Cosi inside the museum. The girls had fun. They really loved the simulated train, real grocery store, art room and pretend baby hospital. It was lots of fun. Grandma came home with us to babysit while mommy had her haircut. It was a fun Wednesday!



Today Mia wanted to skip swim lessons do we could go Downtown. Since she has an extra class tomorrow I said why not. We went to the free kids tent at Millinium Park to see a concert and do some activities. Mia mostly wanted to do the building station. She also made up a short story for the Art Museum's giant kids book. We also heard stories from a storyteller then had a picnic lunch. The girls were hot so I let then splash awhile in the splash fountain. Annie ended up getting soaked while screaming " ohhhhh water! Alright water!!". We ended up at old navy to buy new outfits :) we took thr trsin bsck and went to the Flossmoor Caboose for ice cream then to the pool. It was a fun summer day.








Mia's story. I wrote what she told me. It was brief but exactly what the fact that she was able to say beginning, middle and end was awesome !!


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Growing up

Mia went to the park this afternoon with one of her best friends. Her mom and I are friends which is nice so i trsuted her to take the kids for a few hours but it hit me how fast Mia is growing! Already going out without mommy there. I stayed home while Annie napped.
Here is a picture from
Her playdate today.



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Brave

July 4th it was so hot out we opted to skip the parade (especially since we did parade and fireworks in michigan). Corey and I took the girls to see the new Disney Pixar movie "Brave". It was Annie's first movie. The movie was really good, a good mother daughter movie. Friends had told us it was a little scary but Mia did great. Annie did get a bit scared during a few loud parts but ended up falling asleep during the movie! It was fun and one we will for sure watch again.


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