Progress Report: Georgia

From Miss Jones:

Georgia has shown significant growth since she has been in Pre-school. Initially, Georgia was having trouble using nice hands. Now, she uses nice hands and reminds others that they need to use nice hands as well. Georgia's fine and gross motor skills are developing nicely. She is very persistent and works on an activity until she is successful. Georgia recognizes many of the letters in the alphabet and those in her own name. We are working on recognizing and identifying letter sounds. We will continue to work with Georgia on writing the letters in her name. At home, you can work with Georgia on identifying and recognizing some letter sounds and writing the letters in her name. Georgia is very helpful and enjoys responsibility.

Nov. 14, 2011

What's About to Happen Here...

Hold onto you're hats, it's about to get pretty wild over here. We've been completely lax in our blogging the last few months. My excuse is that we all got sick on vacation and there has been just a lot of recovery stuff mixed with other deadlines ever since. Not a great set of reasoning, particularly since Sophie is unlikely to appreciate those excuses in 10 years when her blog is 50 percent of the size of Georgia's...but I digress.

Now we get back on track.

I'm going to post a lot of old photos in succession to get us up to date. Later, my plan is to go back and change the post dates, so that they reflect the actual chronology, making it much easier when I make this into a book for Sophie, as I did for Georgia after 3 years of Gorgeous Georgia. That's my plan, at least. And my deadline for being current? Thanksgiving Day. I'm just putting it all out here. It's called accountability, folks.

First Field Trip!

Today (and I do mean that, it happened today) was Georgia's very first field trip ever! After finishing up the "family" unit at school, Miss Jones has been teaching them all about the grocery store. Here is the in-classroom grocery store, complete with a very popular cashier spot.
So after a few weeks of talking produce (seriously) and bakery items, the class was ready to take the city bus (oh yeah, citified) to the big grocery store we've tried desperately to keep Georgia out of every time we have to shop there...

 Daddy was a chaperone. And photographer.

Just for your information, below and to Georgia's right is Von, the boy Georgia has told me is her "prince." His mom was there, too, which makes her a queen, but G did not make that connection.

Outside the store.

First stop, Miss Pearl and the deli counter.

G told us at dinner that if she had to pick a job at the grocery, she wanted to be the fish seller.

 The checkout line was too long for them to wait, so they took the self-service route.

 She got to put her money in herself.

Group shot...so cute!

G and Chloe - according to Daddy, these two were the only two to have a "physical confrontation" inside the store. They seem to be key characters in each other's school stories, frequently including some serious fall from some piece of playground equipment. Georgia made a special card for Chloe last night before bed. It had to have "a princess, a queen, a table and a jewelry box."

 Georgia and Maddie enjoyed their fruit snacks on the bus back to school.

Double ear infections!

AGAIN! Tubes in the New Year, mark my words.

Precrawl

Lunch date

Sophie just rocked her flu shot booster - no tears! So we celebrate at a fancy restaurant. As long as she likes the food (flatbread, yogurt), she fits right in at this cloth napkin joint!

Fwd: To crawl or not to crawl?

According to Miss Toccara, Sophie'svmain project at school is learning to crawl. She particularly gets excited when you sing, "go Sophie, go Sophie, go Sophie!"