Our first parent teacher conference

While Ellie stayed home with Nans tuesday am ED and myself went to Ellie's first preschool conference.

We are very fortunate to have a great local preschool that has similar learning goals as we do.

The head teacher, Ms. B, brings the children into her room one on one in the week leading up to the conference. Each child is given a set of tasks to complete. The results are reviewed with us.

The tasks that were given to Ellie are all similar to things we have done and do with her on a daily basis. Ellie is able to do all of these things (cut a line with scissors, count to 10, recognize letters not in ABC order, follow three step directions, match similar objects, etc.). The amazing thing is that she didn't do all these things for Ms. B. She would show her some things and then just become silly.

I walked away having to remind myself that she is 3. As Ms. B said "she is intelligent, but she has the maturity of a three year old."

Ellie is our little smarty pants and she makes us proud.

BTW- Her fever finally broke and she is starting to feel better. We have a little ways to go but the end of this virus is in site.

-EM

Our little sickie

We have been so lucky to have made it 3 plus years without too many illnesses. Ellie started with cold symptoms this past friday and since then has been the sickest we have seen her. Two visits to the doctor and a few calls to the nurse line and it is just a virus that needs to run its' course.

Our little one LOVES to drink, especially soy milk. If she had her way she would drink it all day with no limits. All signs pointed to really sick when she started turning her milk away.

This morning the fever broke for a while and Ellie at more at lunch then she had in days, but still no real desire for soy milk. I'll know we are in the clear when this returns.

Fingers crossed that this is the worst we pick up at preschool for the time being and that she wakes up feverless from her 4 plus hour nap.

Visit to the Fall Festival

Treasure Land

The teachers at Ellie's preschool are using a reward system for good behavior. After about two weeks of helping the kids learn the system the teachers rewarded those who have been behaving well. Ellie was one of them. She was rewarded with a trip to treasure land. Ellie picked an item for nans and one for pa. I love that this was a reward for her, but she wanted to get something for someone else. She is the sweetest.

We have been spending quite a bit of time trying to curb Ellie's drive to be first at everything. I appreciate her motivation and hope that she continues to have some of this drive as she gets older, but at this point always being first doesn't fly in preschool. After her visit to treasure land a note came home from one of her teachers that after her treasure trip she was heard saying, "I'll always be second so that I can go to treasure land again."