Coralee

It seems like a good time to say a little bit about how & what the kids are doing. Coralee is in her 4th year of dance. Her recital in June was adorable. Their song was "Get Me to the Church on Time" and it was everyone's favorite. The girls were dressed as brides and it just couldn't have been any cuter. This is her first year without Mrs. Trish which is sad but she is enjoying Mrs. Jamie and learning new things. She's learned how to ride her bike without training wheels here in the last couple of months. It's funny how one day she just picked it up and started driving up and down the driveway. She's doing well in school. Math is her favorite subject. We've finally found a system that seems to work for reading. She amazes me with the words she'll read. Somehow the book we were using (which was super simple) just got on her last nerve and she refused to read out of it. She'd read books to me but not that reading book. I was still convinced that she needed to learn the phonics rules so we've changed to an online version of Explode the Code. She's loving Classical Conversations and has even attempted to teach Lincoln some memory work. It's funny to hear them talking about the 8 parts of speech as we drive down the road. Poor boy barely has counting by ones down but she wants to teach him skip counting by 2's, 3's, etc. She loves to draw and is anxious to get started on cursive in January. This year has been the end of her love of princesses.... except for her Christmas tree ornaments. I didn't know the princess stage was so short! She wanted to be a cat for Halloween although she was also Tinkerbell (to match sister). We bought a Sleeping Beauty costume for next year so hopefully princesses will be back in favor by then. She loves playing with her brother & sister. I don't know who enjoys playing trains more.... her or Lincoln. She wants to put on shows for us from time to time.... including a nice little presentation about her friend Riley at Thanksgiving. It was followed by a dance. She is really enjoying AWANA Sparks and the differences from Cubbies. We had our first hair cutting experience this year. Poor baby girl was trying to be helpful. Ken had told her she couldn't take her bath until she had the rubber bands out of her hair. Well, she got the scissors out and attempted to cut them out by herself. She cut a tiny slice out of her hair which thankfully is covered up. Can't believe we made it 6 years without that happening!