Braska Bear

We’re gonna do something new… but we can’t decide.  See the green things by the windows and the door?  We want them to go away. I mean, be a different color.  So what do YOU think? What color?? Here’s the top 4… maybe.  We keep changing our minds. So if you have any other suggestions, please share!

Since our van needs a new music player, Daddy thought he would give us his super cool one from his car.  Then he could pick another one or something… So Daddy went out to work on it tonight. And KiKi wanted to be Daddy’s car buddy.  First she held the cup with little pieces in it. But then she got to REALLY help.  She’s a pretty good car buddy afterall!

Daddy’s working on our new music player.  But for right now, we have to sing and make our own music in the car.  Sometimes we just watch what’s outside and have quiet time.  It’s kind of nice, we think.  But we will be happy to have our music back soon!

I’m learning lots of things at cheer each week.  One of the big ones is jumping!  I couldn’t jump all by myself with no hands when we first started.  And now I can… so that’s worth cheering about! Yay!!!  Here’s  a super quick jumping movie…

We have been going to a new church for a little while.  It’s not like regular churches that have church buildings. We go to Popcorn Church. That’s what we call it, anyway.  It doesn’t have it’s own building, so it borrows some movie rooms at the big theater place.  There’s popcorn going in there when we go on Sunday mornings, so that’s why we call it Popcorn Church.  It smells SO good…. They also have a fun game room, and while we were waiting for Mommy, we decided to go play a little bit.  I think me and KiKi are gonna be great drivers! But I’m better than KiKi, I say.  I practice a lot when Mommy lets me climb up to her seat in the van sometimes.  But only when we’re sitting in one place, not on the road.

I have been wanting to read everything lately!  Mommy and I do reading practice every day, and I like to read a lot by myself.  I know lots of words, but when I don’t know, I ask KiKi or I just pretend it’s a different word. Here’s a movie Mommy took of me reading today. (Mommy note: She is not a speed reader, but she is doing SO well and is so very into the reading thing.  She’s spending a lot of time each day practicing. My favorite parts are the “I mean…” she says each time she messes up and realizes it. Go refresh your drink and come back for storytime…) Later, I took a ride on my rocking horse.  I can use it all by myself. Well, except for the getting up and down part.  Here’s my first picture on that rocking horse from back in the day … (March 17, 2007)

We’re catching up on our daily stories, (and there’s some more movies down there to see, so if you haven’t read the other days, you should go back and see some of them!) but I wanted to tell you about this today! This morning, Mommy was writing sentences for us on the Magna Doodle, and then we would take turns reading them. She did a few little short ones that I read to her, and she was happy. Then she did a couple that were a bit harder. And I did them fine too!  She was surprised! So she wrote another one, and gave it to me to read.  She didn’t point at the words or show me where to look, and she took a movie of it….  Mommy was REALLY excited that I did so well! It is usually very hard for me to know where to look when I’m reading.  It’s not easy for me to keep my eyes in the right place, so even though I know lots of words, it’s hard to read in sentences.  But I’m getting better! I’m gonna be SO ready for kindergarten next month!!