Addison and Lily are quickly approaching the 3 1/2 year mark. They started preschool two days a week back in September. For the first few weeks we had a bit of separation anxiety, but they now happily go off to start playing when we drop them off. Just yesterday I went for my first parent/teacher conference. Mike, unfortunately, was out of town for work. Addison LOVES dress up clothes. And she loves the dress up clothes at school. Apparently a bit too much. I was informed that she would put on her favorite dress and then that it was nearly impossible for the teachers to get her to go and do anything else. Ultimately her favorite dress had to be hidden away. I guess the teacher's best description of Addison is shy. In fact one teacher said she is sure that she has never heard Addison say anything. But all of her development and activity is normal. Yea! The only concern I heard for Lily was that the teachers have a difficult time hearing her when she talks. Yikes! If they could only hear her shrill new sound at home. It is deafening! And Lily is also "normal".
One fastastic thing these days is that Addison and Lily can dress themselves. A few negatives...Lily was wearing multiple layers and long sleeves back when it was still in the 80s everyday. These days she usually only wears 2 layers. She has gone through phases of wanting to wear everything backwards, everything inside out, two different colored shoes, shoes on the wrong feet, two different colored socks. She still seems a bit disappointed if her outfit matches too well. Addison, on the other hand, believes that the fewer clothes the better. Her favorite thing to wear is a bathing suit top and underwear. It was a change to go from no-sleeves, to short sleeves and finally to long sleeves. These days Addison will easily put on all of her long sleeves and leggings to go to school or wherever we happen to be going that day. But the second she gets in the door, she gets in her bathing suit or a dress without sleeves. Addison also loves changing clothes. She might go through 4 outfits in a day.
On Tuesdays Kelsey attends Kindermusik during Addison and Lily's school. She loves dancing, singing, clapping and running around in class. She is SO different from Addison and Lily in this respect. Addison and Lily didn't really participate in Kindermusik until they were 2 1/2 or so. Kelsey is the youngest child in her class, but she fits right in with the others. On Thursdays Kelsey goes to the Community Center with me for Wee Wigglers. This is a time for young children to play with a bunch of stuff. There are big foam blocks to climb on, a jumper, trikes, a balance beam, hula hoops, balls, balls and more balls. Kelsey's friends who also attend Wee Wigglers are more athletic than she is. Carter is the OU Volleyball coach's son. Luke is the asst basketball coach's son. And Ellie has three older sisters who are all athletes and have given her a boost in her desire to play soccer. Ellie's mom had to remind her to kick the ball gently to Kelsey. Otherwise she'd knock Kelsey over with the ball. Watching the other kids kick and bounce the balls around at Wee Wigglers has motivated me to not only work on kicking, throwing and hitting with Kelsey, but also her older sisters.
This past weekend the whole crew flew out to San Antonio, TX for ND/Washington St game. We stayed with the Tubbesings. Mike and I attended the game. Thankfully we won easily. We all went to Sea World. I'm pretty sure I enjoyed Sea World more than anyone else.
Back in August Mike and I attended Dave and Ann's wedding in Minneapolis. Mike served as Dave's best man. My mom and dad spent the weekend with the girls. It was a wonderful time.
Flying to and from San Antonio was quite taxing. For the girls and for Mike and me. On our last flight from Atlanta to Columbus, the plane was scheduled to leave at 9:30p. It ended up leaving at 10:25p. Needless to say, we had some tired girls. I was sitting with Lily who was getting rather frustrated because the cabin lights kept going on and off during our time sitting at the gate and taxiing out to the runway. She wanted me to stop turning them off. I explained that it wasn't me turning them on and off, it was the pilot. After a pause, Lily said "The pilot is really good at turning the lights on and off." Mike was sitting directly in front of us with Addison and we both had a good laugh at that.
Following are some pictures from the past few monthdays. The last one I took today. All three girls got to finger paint with Cool Whip that I colored with food coloring.
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