Reading Books: Ashley really loves looking at books and "reading" them. If there is a book that I've read to her a few different times, she tells me she'll read to me. And she does pretty good at remembering what happens in the story and reading it to me. She also has this thing that when she's looking in books, any girl - whether big or little or white or black is "Ashley" and any boy in the book is Bennett and any parent looking figures are Mike or I. And, any gray-haired, cane in hand grandma looking figures is my mom haha.
Singing: She is really getting good at singing and it's so cute! Her favorites include the ABC's, Twinkle Twinkle, The Wheels on the Bus and Happy Birthday. Bennett is learning new songs at school this year and he is become way more vocal with his singing too and is willing to sing them in front of us at home so Ashley is picking up on some of those already too.
Puzzles: Ashley loves puzzles and is very good at them! Any 9 or 12 piece puzzle is too easy for her and she'll have it done within a minute. We have advanced to the 24 piece puzzles and even the puzzles with weird shapes in them. She needs alittle help getting started on these but once a couple pieces are put together she can do the rest. We have a couple of 64 piece ones and she can do quite a bit of these but she'll usually get stuck and need alittle help. It's pretty amazing to watch her whiz through these. My mom told me that I was like that at this age too.
Potty Training: Uftda. This has been quite the process. We have been going hardcore potty training since July (if not even earlier). And we have been diaper free for alittle over a month now. I'd love tell you she was totally trained but that's not the case. She will go every time we take her. And she can go by herself if we tell her to or bribe her to but, if we don't take her or remind her, she will wet. There were many many many days where she wet 4-5 pairs of undies a day. I haven't had a day like that for awhile and the past couple of days she's been really good so I'm hoping (fingers crossed) that she's almost got it. I also stopped diapers overnight and she had been in undies for that too. I always wake her up around midnight right before I go to bed and then Mike wakes her up around 5:00am before he leaves for work and then at 8:00am when she wakes up, she is usually totally dry. She had such an interest at this at such an early age that I though she'd be super easy to potty train - boy was I wrong!
ABC's: She loves the alphabet and is constantly pointing out letters when she sees them. ...on the step stool, on people's shirts, on signs, in books etc. She knows them all and I feel like because of her love for letters, it should be pretty easy to teach for to write and read. ...Speaking of writing, we're still trying to figure out if she is right or left handed. One second she'll be writing or coloring with her right, the next second she'll switch over to her left.
That is great that she is so good at puzzles! Stryker was like that at that age, too. And the potty training sounds just like at our house with Peytra. Everyone said training girls would be easier than boys - wrong! Anyway, what a cutie! Great pictures.
ReplyDeleteGabriel just recently started singing along to songs in the car. He would NEVER sing along with anything before, and then literally overnight, he started singing along all the time. Even when he doesn't know the words! Gideon is not really into puzzles or letters yet, but he does really like to sing.
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