Madi

Today Madi is celebrating her 100th day at school this year.  She has been doing an amazing job at school and is loving it.  She still meets with her principle first thing in the morning to tell her good morning and give her a high five.  Mrs. Sprinkle stopped me in the hall last week and said she just loves having Madi stop in the morning.  She always has a big smile and is such a happy girl to be there.  Madi loves it as well.

She is also so eager to learn.  She is always wanting to write lists or sentences.  And she is getting pretty good.  We practice flash cards in the afternoon with her sight words and letters and numbers.  She was so excited when she was finally able to count to 100 all by herself.  She even has counting by 10s down and we will start working on 5s.

She is still waiting on that first loose tooth though.  I noticed several kids at school with lots of missing teeth and she has yet to get her first loose tooth.  Every once in a while she will say excitedly, "Mom, my tooth is loose!"  But I check and no such luck, nothing yet.

Other things that she is doing:  she likes to make her own breakfast in the morning.  She stopped taking afternoon naps several months ago :(  She is excited to start gymnastics again at the end of the month.  She loves drawing, painting, or writing.  We have so much paper floating around this house.  It is crazy.  She loves making pictures for everyone and they pop up on the walls all around the house.  And of course she is still crazy about her little brother.  They play pretty well together.

Last week (1-31-12), she participated in the Little Dance Team at school.  They practiced and learned the performance on Saturday morning before.  And then Tuesday night they performed during halftime of the girls basketball game at the high school.  It was so cute and she did an amazing job!

Check her out!  Last one in the front row!

Have a great week!
Love, Amy

From January 2012