Loose teeth!

Kylie has two loose teeth. Both front top ones. She's been watching a few of her friends and classmates lose teeth with eager anticipation. This week she asked me to feel her teeth and they all felt firmly attached. But this evening, she mentioned that she thought her top one was wiggly. So I felt it and it does move a little bit. While I checked that one, I checked her other top tooth as well and noticed that it was wiggly as well. How exciting!!

Oh and school pictures are on Friday. Brett wants the teeth to stay put until after the pictures, I hope she loses one before pictures, just for the cute effect. Stayed tuned for more tooth updates!

Self Portrait Project

Kylie finished her first homework assignment for Kindergarten. She needed to make a self portrait. We were encouraged to be creative! So some brainstorming, a trip to Joann's and supplies from my scrapbook area produced this:


She has a brown dress with cupcakes on it, so she wanted to use that for her dress here. And on hand has a small bandaid on it to cover up where she gets pinched (there is a little girl who has been pinching other girls in her class). And she's holding an American flag in her other hand. Kylie picked out a paper with roses on it since her middle name is Rose. And we spent a good deal of time searching through all the cross-stitch thread to find some that matched her hair perfectly. Not too bad, if I do say so myself!

"Reading is so fun!"

That's what Kylie said this evening to me. My heart soar!! Here's the story:

She has several "beginning reader" books. Books with short, commonly used words such as: the, at, we, us, I, as, can, will, and. She has never shown any interest in these books, she prefers more advanced books that I read to her.

Her school has a reading contest going to encourage kids to read and be read too. She's been coloring a cowboy hat (for the Reading Round Up program) on this paper nearly every day that we read together. Tonight she wanted to color a hat but I told her we needed to read first. I had found this beginner book when I was picking up earlier in the day and asked Kylie if she wanted to try to read this to me. It was called "Popcorn Day". She really expressed interest in reading this book to me.

So we started. Kylie worked hard at sounding out the words she didn't recognize, which were most of them. The vowels were hard for her since it would be a long or short sound and the "sh" and "th" as well as "I" were confusing for her too. She sounded out an H sound for the N's because h and n look alike. But once she would figure out a word, she remembered it. And since the book had lots of repetition, she grew more confident as she recognized the words.

I didn't want to push her so had her stop after 8 pages. But after we re-read those 8 pages, she said "Reading is so fun, let's do some more!" so we read 8 more pages. We stopped once she started getting worn out.

I gave her huge hugs as did Brett. What a special night for us, I watched her read 16 pages!! Woo-hoo for her!