Never a Dull Moment

We have successfully completed three weeks of school!  Success in many ways!  No Covid outbreaks, no calls from the nurses' office, no broken limbs on the school monkey bars, no headlice... So far, so good...

The girls are loving their teachers, and they seem to be doing very well with all the Covid regulations.  I think I said it before...but I feel that they have an upper hand because they know no different!  The girls hold hands from the entrance door to their classrooms, and I was told they give each other a hug each morning before they go their separate ways.  I may have a few spies on them throughout the day that report back to me.  

Academically, we're finding that it takes Johnalyn a bit longer to process things.  She's an extreme critical thinker, and it's shining thru even in the first few weeks.  She needs time to process her thoughts.  Her teacher, Mrs. Bushman, told me that she is a "Natural born leader" and is very social and helpful.  We work extra hard with English.  She is starting to read in the three short weeks of being in school.  She LOVES math.  She will sit at the kitchen table every morning and write out addition problems, greater than and less than equations... Math seems to be her comfortable subject right now, and we are SO proud of that!!

Johni working on homework with daddy

Johnalyn's math that she did completely on her own just 'for fun' before school one morning.  

Danika... everything seems to be coming to her quite easily to her right now.  She breezes thru everything, so we constantly tell her to slow. down.  She takes no specific interest between math or English... but the girl LOVES science. Anything science, she is so inquisitive.  Her retention of knowledge is quite impressive.  She is taking off with word recognition, and is very fluent with math (greater than/less than symbols, addition, subtraction, learning fractions).  She has been struggling a bit with the social aspect of being away from her 'social leader' sister.  She is realizing that she needs to make her own friends, and not piggy back with her sister.  She'll get there!  

Dani being silly during homework.

Onto the little mishaps in the past three weeks!  

Two days into school, we had friends over at our house on a Friday night, and Johnalyn got a bit... cocky. She wanted to do a flip on the trapeez bar on our playset.  I'll let the picture speak for how that went...  We're just glad school pictures were done, but she had quick the scab on her eye for the next week.  It was easy for the teachers and their classmates to tell the girls apart!  

That was Johnalyn... so of course we had to have a little incident with Danika too, right??  I got a text from daycare last Wednesday... "So, Danika decided to cut her hair.  😐"  Not sure if anyone would remember, but Danika was the one we have always had hair issues with... from 13 - 20 months she would obsessively pull her hair out... and ended up bald on one side. She has always hated ponies, and 'things' in her hair.  She decided this day, she wanted short hair.  She was obviously cutting it for quite some time... because we ended up with LOTS of different lengths.  

I asked her WHY... she said "I just did it once to see... but I liked the sound of it, so I kept doing it."  She knew what she was doing was wrong, because where did she put the hair?  Hid it under the rug at daycare...

Even at five years old... they're keeping us on our toes, constantly!   She promised me she will "never ever cut my hair again... until college!"  

Pandemic and school aside, we're enjoying what we can of Fall!  We went camping last weekend to celebrate Jojo's 7th birthday!  Always a good time... its SO fun watching the kids build a forever cousin bond!    Next up... Halloween!!   :-)