Thursday, December 31, 2009

Dan explained to Jozie about the New Years and the ball dropping in New York. She is now set on going to New York and watching the ball drop. I told her that we are just going to watch it here in the house because New York is alittle far for us to be driving tonight, and she is not happy about it. She really wants a New Years party. So it is 8:45pm and we are leaving to go to Kmart to get "party supplies" for our New Years party at our house... with just Jozie and I. Look for pictures to come.

Update: We had a blast on New Years. K-mart sucks for supplies. But we bought clappers and construction paper and with the help of nickjr.com made hats and pipe cleaner fireworks. See the fun below! Also, after we said Happy News Years, I started cleaning up and Jozie said "what's next for the party?" I had to disappoint her and tell her that was it.... she was not impressed. Maybe she will just sleep through next year.





3 going on 16

Jo and I were driving to the mall today and there were two men on motorcycles next to us at the stop light. I noticed that Jozie had stopped talking and when I looked back she was waving and giggling at these two guys! They weren't even looking at her. I asked her "are you waving to those two guys?" and she answered "Yes, I like their motorcycles and helmets. They have skulls on them!" Awww great.... Finally they turned around and noticed her and smiled and waved. She then was all caught up in seeing where they went after the light turned green. They had left us in the dust of course. When did she start liking boys? I need to make sure the girls club is still alive and well!

Tuesday, December 22, 2009

Grades

Jo got her report card and she seems to be doing well. She mainly got satisfactory and a few excellents. There are some stuff she has to work on, like knowing our address, phone number, and 911. Some other things, I think have to do more with her being really quiet in class. Like one of the things she has to work on is class participation. She is so quiet in class. Little by little she is coming out of her shell, but she is so scared of getting pennies taken away and not getting to go in the treasure box that she doesn't want to ever be loud in class. Good for the teacher, but then it just seems that she is extra introverted. Oh well... it will all work out in the end.


One of the things I have been afraid of is that due to her being quiet (and tiny) the other kids would treat her like a doll baby and she wouldn't learn to do things on her own. I know somebody who's daughter is now in 2/3rd grade and had that issue when she was in preschool and now has issues with her daughter not even being able to complete tests in the time frame allotted. So one of the good things that came out of the parent / teacher conference was that Mrs. V said that another little girl was hovering over Jozie and doing things like pulling chairs out for her and helping her walk around (the other little girl is big for a preschooler, in my opinion) and was basically treating Jozie like a doll. Mrs V saw this and then told the other little girl to leave Jozie alone, that she was big enough to do things on her own. I was glad to hear that her teacher is aware that this can happen and making sure it doesn't. Yay for great schools and wonderful teachers!

Last night there was a trailer for the Chimpunks movie (the Squeakwal) and the little chipettes were singing "Single Ladies". Jo decided to make up her own version:


If you like it then you shoulda put a "insert anything she sees here" on it.

So we had...

If you like it then you shoulda put a marshmellow on it
If you like it then you shoulda put a cup on it
If you like it then you shoulda put soup on it

oh oh oh oh oh oh.... there was also a bowl, a couch, a bed, a crown, etc.

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