Welcome to the new year!! You spent New's Eve at Grandpa's house partying with Hannah and Cale. From the sounds of it, you had a blast. It makes me so happy that you like going over to Grandpa's house, since he's a pretty special person to me.
Today we instituted Elise's Reward Chart in order to foster a little more independence in you. There are 5 categories; Getting Dressed, Eating, Cleaning Up, Being Independent, and Attitude. Each category has it's own list of criteria and you must meet the majority in order to get a star. See this is what happens when your mother is raised by educators!! Last night (first night), you got all your stars. Tonight you missed out on the getting dressed star, since we had to ask you to get dressed 5 times and you refused to let Dad help you on with your coat and said Mama had to do it. I was expecting you to be more upset about it (not that I wanted that), but you handled it well. After you get 10 stars you get a candy bar (of your choosing), and after 50 we are going to take you to Chuck E. Cheese. You seem very excited about the latter especially.
Amazing talent of the hour - You are sounding out letters! You are actually much better at this than you are at recognizing them by sight. The other day we were sounding out B, and then you just starting listing off other words that start with be all on your own!! You came up with Beaver and Butterfly. Aunt Allison and I were blown away. You can just pick a random word out of speech and tell me the letter it starts with. Your best letters are S, T, P, B, and M. Now if I could just get you to recognize them, we'd be halfway to reading!
