Every day with Keira is an adventure, a laugh, a challenge, and a joy. Here are some of the things I have written down about her in the past couple months...
February 27- I colored my hair, and Keira used the unsupervised time to build a massive couch fort and decorate it with Costco muffins.
February 28- Took Keira to the park today to wear her out... 10:30 pm I am falling asleep on the living room floor and she still won't settle down and go to sleep. Keira 1 Park 0.
March 5- Keira spent the night at Grandma's house and when I went to pick her up today, she had completely disowned me. She said she wants to stay there forever. She wanted nothing to do with me! We decided her next sleepover should involve spankings and no chocolate milk so that she will want to come home in the morning. :)
March 7- I must have watched too much Psych in Keira's early years, because she refers to black people as Guss-es.
March 23- Keira just asked me for a ring because she and sister are married forever and ever. lol These girls are best friends. :)
March 29- I was doing my 20 min exercise video and Keira insists I hold a dvd in each hand in lieu of optional weights that I don't have. Then she tells me to flap them like a bird which I did to humor her to which she responded, "That's the spirit!" What would I do without Coach Keira?
April 1- I was getting juice for sister and Keira wanted some too and I said who do you think you are? And she said "Keira! K-E-I-R-A!"
April 3- I've been spraying this big black bee through the screen with poison and he keeps coming back. I was like how the heck is he still alive? And Keira said, "I'm telling ya! He has three hearts!" (like in video games)
They said that kindergarten has gotten much more challenging since I was a kid and gave me a paper listing some things she should start working on. I made her a numbers book to help her learn to count to 100, a 3D shapes book, and a random order alphabet book with upper and lower case to work on recognition and letter sounds. I let her choose a Disney Princess for the cover of each book and she loved them. I am shocked at how quickly she is learning. She can recognize almost all of her lower case letters, when I have never purposefully tried to teach them to her. Best I can figure is she picked them up reading the Dr. Seuss ABC book. She is also remembering the names to the 3D shapes faster than I expected. And when I went over the numbers book with her, I could see she was actually reading the numbers on the page instead of reciting from memory.
I had been really worried about Keira going to school because of her disinterest in writing, coloring, and learning on command. I mean really worried. Then, all of the sudden, she has started demonstrating more interest and intelligence than I thought she possessed. For example, one day after church I was examining a doodle she made in class and realized that in the very center of her drawing she wrote almost her whole name on her own. She had NEVER attempted such a thing before, I didn't even know she knew how to SPELL her name, but on that paper she wrote K-E-I then the beginning of a backward R which I think confused her then on the back of the paper was her letter A. That's why on April 1st when she spelled her name out loud I was shocked. I'm starting to realize that the knowledge is all in there, but for some reason she doesn't want me to know just how smart she is.
She has also just become interested in doodling and writing. In the past, I could never get her to sit down and draw or write letters. If you ask her to do something, chances are she's not going to do it, but of her own accord she has drawn a snowman, dogs, ladders, faces, and will write several random letters on paper having received no instruction from me. The only letter writing she has done previously was a tracing application on my phone that she does with her finger. It just amazes me that she won't sit down and trace letters with me on paper and let me teach her, but she randomly manifests amazing intelligence and ability. She sat down on the kitchen floor and made this robot "with wings" all by herself in a matter of minutes. She cut the shapes, glued them all together, and drew a face on it before I even realized what she was up to. I'm so glad she has taken a sudden interest in learning and hopefully she will thrive in transitional kindergarten this fall.
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