We're BACK!!!

Hello there, everyone!!! Well........keeping up with the posting on this blog has been a little in-between, hasn't it? That's what I get for dreaming big, huh? :o) We've still been doing "school" but not in the way where we sit down at a table every day and do paperwork........we've done a lot of "On the Go" learning! Creston is getting really good with his colors and with really wanting to "read" more. He's never been one to sit down and want us to read books to him, but over the Christmas Holiday, we actually did a lot of reading with him and Mackie both! Mackie is actually showing a bigger interest than Creston ever did! We re-discovered the Library! Creston loves any type of "fire" related book and then we "rented" a bunch of Christmas themed books too! They also love the train table that the Watauga County Library has in it's kids section, so I don't really ever have to pull teeth to get them to want to go!!

This past week, Creston said "Lets do school!" and got out all of his workbooks and papers and sat down at the table. At the time, I was doing something else, but decided that if he was willing, I'd drop whatever I was doing and do "School" with him! We went through SEVERAL pages in one of his pre-school workbooks. He showed me that he has the ability to know what things "go together" and he understood the directions about drawing lines from certain items to the things that they went with! We hadn't done that before and he took to it like he'd always been doing it! We went over the Alphabet again and his 1-10 numbers. He's getting really good at counting too!

On Creston's Birthday (1/3/10), Mackie counted to 10 for us all!!! All by himself!!! Without ANY help!!!! He had never done that before either (except for the night before), but this time he did it in front of Nana & Paw-Paw AND Mark got it on Camera!!! Smart kids! That's all I'm saying!!! :o) (I'll stop gloating now!)

So.........I'm finding that it's a LOT easier at this stage of the game to work learning in when we have those moments that the boys are more receptive to it. I don't want them to HATE learning before they really get inot it! Creston has been a little slower than some to pick up on certain things, but I'm also finding that he's a lot faster at picking things up now that he's 5!!! Maybe some kids just need a little more time to kick it into gear than others!

So...................we'll be reading and learning some more these next few months. I'll try REALLY hard to keep everyone posted on the progress!!! Now that the Holidays are behind us, it'll hopefully be a bit easier!

HAPPY NEW YEAR, Everyone!!!