Sweet Sisters

Every day Lauren and Caroline play together. They like to watch pictures on our computer screen saver. They watch Dora, Oomi Zoomi, and Max and Ruby together. Max and Ruby is Lauren's favorite. Thankfully, I might add! Dora drives me a little nuts. I think it's cute enough, but pretty silly too. Lauren says she learns math from Oomi Zoomi.

All these pictures were from last week. I caught them being sweet while watching the pictures.




Last Thursday Lauren had Kindergarten Round Up. She did great! Jennifer, her Speech teacher, had told me Lauren was ready for Kindergarten, and the Kindy teacher who evaluated Lauren pretty much said the same thing. Lauren can count to ???--I know past 100, the teacher stopped her at 40. Lauren can recognize her letters and knows most sounds they make. She knows her shapes and colors.

Things we have to work on over the summer: making sure she holds a pencil correctly and practicing cutting with scissors. Julia also held her pencil incorrectly before Kindergarten, but not Austin. Interesting. Lauren also needs to practice writing her name with capital L, then lowercase letters. Now, I tried to teach her that way, knowing she'd have to write it like that for school, but Lauren refused to do it! She isn't thrilled about it now either, but knows the teacher said she had to learn the lowercase letters!

Lauren was so excited to go to Round Up, but then got a little shy when it was time to be evalutated. It was pretty cute. She got a snickerdoodle cookie when she finished going to each station, and told me, "All the kids who did good get a cookie!" Never mind that Caroline got one too... ;) They also got free chocolate chip cookies at the Vons bakery. A lucky cookie day. Ha! They do always remind me to get a cookie there!

Back at home, after Kindergarten Round Up and grocery shopping at Vons:

I think someone will miss her big sister when she goes off to Kindergarten!

They were drawing with chalk and dancing around the patio.

Caroline incognito!