It is so hard to believe that it is August already. It feels like just yesterday the days were starting to get longer and the kiddies were just starting to get out of school. Now all I see are "Back to School" deals and information on "Tax-Free" weekends of shopping. Huge reminder that I am about to head back to school as a graduate student. Yikes! I can't believe it. Cory and I both ordered our books today. We are both registered for all of our classes and our lines of communication are continuing to be opened so that we are both ready for the teamwork that will be needed after August 29th. We are a great team as it is (ok I am completely biased) but after we both dive into the journey of higher education (together) we will need to be great communicators. No doubt about that. I have other big news.... of course it is about this precious little face...
Sydney has her last day at her in-home daycare tomorrow. After a lot of thinking and contemplating, we are moving her from the less structured in-home care to a more structured daycare center/preschool. It was not an easy decision to make and we are very sad to leave our current provider behind. But lately, Sydney has been such a little sponge. This is the age that she is starting to learn things so often and so easily. And the mind of a child just AMAZES me! It does make me wonder how some people are such 'mediocre' parents. Maybe that is harsh to say, but to me--that is the LEAST of the harsh things that I have to say about this subject and many others. But anyways back to the point. On Monday, Sydney starts at Great Bridget Kids Academy. The facility is so clean and structured and I love the program that they use with the kids. They use the system called Zoo Phonics, which uses animals in the shapes of letters and that correspond with the sound of the first letter of the word to aid in learning. Google it, it kinda amazes me. They also teach sign language and spanish. Sydney's teacher is bilingual. After thinking so much about it, we decided that if Sydney does have to be in daycare, why not put her somewhere that will use her development to the best of our abilities? So we are excited! They also do tons of creative and artistic activities and I am soooo looking forward to seeing all of the fun things that are to come for our little explorer! We are hoping to see this... and to think she actually knows what she is doing ;)
Oh and on another note, we seem to have a walker on our hands here soon!!! The other night she stood up on her own for like a minute! Ha! oh the little things... I am totally loving my little muffin right now. I have to share something else we watched not too long ago... we actually let Sydney watch this with us and she was AMAZED at the little thing she was watching. I am sure there was absolute wonder going through her mind trying to figure out what she was watching. She was about 2 months here...
Hope everyone has a great weekend! We are thinking about going to this Arts and Crafts festival in VA Beach where we took our family pictures. Grammie read about it in the paper today and it sounds pretty fun! Be safe and stay cool everyone!
<3 Emily
No comments:
Post a Comment