Josie has been working on her own word skills lately too, the written ones. We have a work book that does colors, numbers and letters that we’ve been steadily working through. Her counting is good, although tougher with the higher numbers. Now she can instantly recognize small groups of 2 or 3 though without putting her finger on and counting them. For letters she loves for me to print out pages of dotted letter font. I found one online and I make home made tracing pages for her to practice her letters because they were the favorite part of the book for her. She’ll do a page while I put Celia down for a nap, win win for us. I enjoy using them to express my own feelings and wishes like ‘Mommy sure hopes everyone takes a nap today’ because she can’t read them anyway, she’s just practicing letters. She also now takes great pride in writing her name on gifts and cards to other people and can identify her own name and Celia’s sometimes. She wrote my parents a letter today containing all of our names (Josie, Celia, Mommy, Daddy, Mio, Ezzy, Kaya, Fred, and George). Along with the writing has come some more recognizable drawing. Normally everything is just a scribble and art is a ‘process’ not a result for Josie. Recently we got this which was very exciting as a head, eyes, hair and arms were definitely identifiable [right hand side]. Her paintings continue to be one big blob of color that she has a lot of fun making.

Oddly Josie has decided to start climbing everything in sight now. She tried the TV today, yikes. She’s getting the hang of the monkey bars at the playground.

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