5.75 years old

Nadia will be six years old three months from today. Say it isn't so. Over the past three months:

1. She's made terrific strides with reading! She's started reading chapter books such as ones from the Magic Tree House series. She's currently half-way through the Level 3 All About Reading curriculum.

2. We worked on breaking her thumb sucking habit. She wore the thumb guards for four weeks, and then we switched to putting a foul tasting nail polish on her two thumbnails every other day.

3. She participated on a basketball team for the first time. She has begun to learn how to dribble a ball and to play some defense.

4. We added science to our daily homeschooling routine.

5. She's made slower progress with her spelling skills. We have been working on spelling words with a silent "e" and knowing when to use c, k, or ck. She's about one-third of the way through Level 2 of the All About Spelling curriculum.

6. She finished her first Sparks book for AWANA for the second time and started completing the extra credit cards.

7. She switched from wearing dresses almost every day to wearing pants far more often, in part because she gets herself dressed most mornings, and she can't reach the things that are on hangars in her closet.

8. She's continued to make progress with math. In particular she's been learning about place value and has begun to add and subtract with two digit numbers that don't involve any regrouping (ex. 72 + 25).

9. She finished the 1st grade textbook from Handwriting without Tears. Today we started another Draw Write Now book.

10. She lost her first two teeth, and the two permanent teeth came in. The hygienist today at her 6 month cleaning appointment said that her 6 year molars have started to come in. She loves the Strawberry Shortcake balloon she got at the dentist today!

11. She fell in love with the Liberty Kids dvds. She would watch them EVERY day, if we let her.

12. She switched from her favorite ice cream flavor being cookies and cream to chocolate chip cookie dough.

13. She had oatmeal for breakfast far more often than she had in a few years.

14. She had her very first case of a full blown stomach virus.

15. She made improvements in gymnastics. Lately she's been saying that she misses ballet. We shall see whether she picks ballet or gymnastics in the fall. I told her she can't do both since she also does soccer and basketball.