Amy, from back in 2008

Last of the old info!

1/7/08 – Amy loves going to "school"! We took several days off over the holidays and Amy was really ready to get back to school and her friends.

1/23/08 – So I've been hesitant to say this for fear of jinxing things, but Amy is officially potty trained! It's been probably since the middle of December. Life is a lot easier now – no diaper bag to lug around, we just go! WOO HOO!

2/20/08 – Amy can pretty much write her name! The A has been going strong for a couple of weeks, and now the M and the Y are coming along. Sometimes she writes them in the wrong order because she runs out of room, but nonetheless it's pretty amazing! On her Valentine cards for her friends, she signed the A part of her name on all the cards, and I wrote the M and the Y. Her fine motor skills are terrific – she's still drawing lots of faces, which include eyes, ears, nose, mouth, hair, arms and legs. Wow!

6/14/08 – Today we were leaving Aunt Jennifer's house and Amy accidentally pulled the fire alarm that was just at the end of the hand rail at the bottom of the stairs. She was very traumatized as we waited for the fire trucks to arrive and explain to them it was an accident. I'm not sure she's going to want to go back to visit any time soon!

Reed, from back in 2008

Okay so it's quite a bit later, but I'm just now getting back to posting the last of my old notes about the kids. Here's the little bit I had about Reed in 2008, before I started this blog.

1/15/08 - On school days, we tend to struggle with you getting dressed and ready to go. A while ago, Tod had what has turned out to be a brilliant idea - he leaves a few workbook pages for you downstairs, so that you'll be excited about getting dressed to go downstairs. Lots of motivation things like this (sticker charts, etc.) work with you for just a few days...and we're grateful for every day something does work. But this has been a long-lasting thing. You are so eager to get down there and work on your sheets, you get dressed right away. Right now we're doing kindergarten sheets but I'm thinking we'll have to get first grade workbooks soon.

2/20/08 - You haven't taken naps at school probably since last summer, other than once in a while. Instead you spend all of nap time reading books - they put your cot in the library area just for that purpose. One day when I was dropping you off, you reminded the teacher that she'd said she was going to put some new books on the bookshelf; she said "you've read all of these, haven't you?" and you answered "Yes! Even the dictionary!". On weekends we can get you to take a nap probably half the time, if we lay down with you on our bed. Sleep just isn't really your thing!

Oh, I know it...

The other day I said to Amy, "Would you please stop growing up so fast? I'd like you to stay just like you are right now." and Amy enthusiastically said "I will, Mommy, I will!!" But then she whispered "Mommy, I can't really do that"....oh, don't I know it, baby girl.