Emmi

Well, Emmi is napping (!!!).  This is somewhat monumental!  It is like pulling teeth these days to get her to nap.  She will go up in her room and play for 3 hours but not nap...and she still really needs a nap.  She has a cold now with a cough and a runny nose and she just looks exhausted, but despite that, she is still like the energizer bunny!  So, I have a little time to update my blog (Max is currently laying on the floor next to me in his little play tent, happy as can be.  But that can change very quickly...
So, Emmi has just moved up at school from the 3 year old class to the Pre-Kindergarten class (!!??). My baby girl is now in Pre-K!  Well, she is only almost 3 1/2 and they separate it into 3 year old Pre-K and 4 year old Pre-K and then Jr. Kindergarten.  It is really a great program at The Goddard School.  We were very impressed with how well prepared Aiden was for kindergarten.  Emmi will miss the cut off to start kindergarten because she has a September birthday, so she will turn 6 right after she starts.  I don't mind though because it gives me one more full year with her at home with me :-)  Plus, then she will be one of the older students in the class and I think that will be a bonus. Especially in high school.  She is really doing great in her new classroom.  She really likes her new teachers (there are 2 of them) and she loves being with her buddy Matthew.  He had been in her class but moved up to the new class about 4 months ago and she has missed him a lot!!  Then new classroom is actually in a whole new building so it was a big change for her.  It is right next to the gymnasium though and that is a plus.  In the other classroom, they didn't make it over to the gym very often because they would have to bundle all the kids up to walk across the parking lot and into the gym and do it all over again on the way back.  They also have a much more structured curriculum.  They start with circle time and break off into 2 groups for some learning about colors, shapes, numbers, letters etc.  They get to use the computer for some learning too and she loves that!  She seems to be adjusting well and is very social.  I am so proud of her!

She is very excited about our upcoming trip to Disney in April.  She is already talking all about it and we are going to start planning our "Girl's Club" activities.  We are definatley going to do the Bibbity Bobbity Boutique again.  She has decided she wants to wear her Cinderella dress for that.  In the mornings after we drop Aiden off at school, we pretend to hop on a plane and fly to Disney for a bit before she gets to school.  She has a very colorful imagination and loves to get caught up in it!

I am posting some pictures of her that I took the other night.  She actually smiled and posed for me!!  She looks so beautiful!