Our Little Scholar!!

Today Laurie and I had our second parent/teacher conference with Lindsey's teacher, Mrs. Bounds. She had nothing but great things to say about Lindsey!! They have started to work on reading with her and some of the other students. They cannot force them to do it because reading skills are not supposed to be taught until kindergarten... but Mrs. Bounds says Lindsey is eager to learn to read! Lindsey is also learning to sound out words to learn to spell them. Mrs. Bounds showed us a picture Lindsey had drawn of a flower and out beside the drawing she had written "flrw." There was another of them where she had drawn a house and she had written "hse." She said Lindsey had done this all by herself without the teachers asking her to do it!! Mrs. Bounds says she is more than ready for kindergarten!

Future Olympian?

This Saturday we went ice skating with a friend of mine, Daryn. Lindsey has always wanted to go since she's seen people on television do it. However, she found out quickly that it was much harder than it looked. At first she said she wanted to go home, but by the time Laurie and I were ready to go, she said she wanted to stay! She asked the whole way home "when can I go back?" She was never able to skate by herself. We had to help her. However by the end of the night she was able to stand without falling! In one of the pictures you can see her hold her leg up to the front. This was her version of figure skating!!

Muffins With Mom

On Friday February 3rd at Lindsey's school they had a "Muffins with Mom" morning. They invited all the moms to have breakfast with the kids. Laurie went to school late so she could go. She said they ate and then all the kids sang songs. Laurie said Lindsey sat at the front of the class and sang at the top of her lungs (you can see her sitting up front in the above picture)

Lindsey and Mom Cook

I came home Wednesday night from the gym and found my two little ladies cooking dinner! It was so cute because both Laurie and Lindsey had on aprons. Notice in the picture of Lindsey pouring the milk that she spilled some of it on the stove... she was so worried about her mess!

Lindsey Plays With Makenzie

My best friend from college, Matt, came into town to visit his family for the holidays and Tuesday December 27th he and his family came over to our house to let our kids play together. Last year Makenzie was just 3 months old at Christmas, so this was the first year they could play together. I was wondering how it would go since Lindsey is 5 and Makenzie is 1. It went well, but it was funny to see them play together. Makenzie had a BLAST playing with all of Lindsey's toys. Her favorites were the Cabbage Patch doll and stroller and a shopping cart. She pushed both of them around the house as much as she could! They stayed as late as they could until both the kids were worn out!!

Christmas at Pat Pat and Pop Pop's

Monday Decmeber 26th we traveled to Laurie's parent's house to see them for the holidays. Lindsey always loves going there because she doesn't get to see them as much as she sees my parents because Laurie's parent's live farther away. Lindsey got some pretty porcelian dolls and some money!!! We used that to buy things to finish decorating her new room!! We spent the rest of the time there relaxing and playing with Lindsey's new toys. Her favorite thing to do at Pat Pat and Pop Pop's house is to walk their dog around the block and she was very excited to do that!