Lead role!

Audrey had the lead role in the play, "The Little Old Lady Who Swallowed A Bat". I'm shocked that she seemed to like taking center stage. :)

Our respective jobs

Audrey's job is to feed Isabella. Since Ian really wanted a job, too, his job is to open the door for Isabella to go outside. Audrey realized yesterday that she hadn't gotten her allowance yet, which meant we were a day late (probably will never let us forget that one). Eric had traditionally been the one giving her allowance since he's also working on helping her learn to count money.

Audrey: "Hey, can I get paid?"

Me: "Yes, but you can wait until daddy gets home since that's his job."

Audrey: "Well, my job is feeding Isabella. And Ian's job is to open the door for her. And daddy's job is to pay me. What's your job, mommy?"

Me: "I don't have a job. Just the way I like it."

Audrey: "No, mommy. I know what your job is. Your job is to tell everyone what their job is!"

Yes, she's got it! And she also announced to Eric when he got home from work: "Your job is to give me money!"

First day of kindergarten

Nothing like starting kindergarten in October...

Pumpkin patch

In pictures. A few of my favorites:

We each picked one gorgeous mum

Waiting, patiently

Our ride is here!

Enjoying the ride to the pumpkin patch

Look at these awesome pumpkins we scored!

Three of my favorite people

Kindergarten...here we come?!

Eric and I had a parent-teacher conference today with Audrey's pre-k teacher. With no concerns with her academic development, I had one question in mind: how does she do with the other kids? Well, before I could ask my question, Audrey's teacher told us about how top notch she is in her current classroom, and how bad she feels that Audrey already knows the curriculum, and of course is the only one in the pre-k room who does not nap.  So, Ms. S asked if we had thought about moving Audrey to the jr. kindergarten/kindergarten class. Well, noooo. But, we thought about it. How she is reading and wanting to do addition and subtraction whenever there is downtime. And mostly how her main group of friends had moved on to the kindergarten room back in August. And we decided it was a good idea for Audrey. As sad as that made me. Especially since it meant she would be at school 5 days/week. No more Mondays at home with her. :(

Oh, and I did ask my question. Clarifying that I was wondering if Audrey is too bossy with the other kids. And I added that she could be honest with us...Ms. S's response? "Audrey has great leadership skills!" Ahh, just as we suspected! :)

Reading

Audrey is reading! Really reading! She had been recognizing sight words for the past year, but we had admittedly become lax at helping to foster her reading development. Dr. M recommended the Bob book series since she knew Audrey's phonological skills were strong. Audrey loves these little books! They don't necessarily have the best storyline; however, they do a good job of helping to recognize high frequency sight words.  Audrey had also started reading some Dr. Seuss books such as 'Go Dog Go'.  Eric said she also read the Jack In The Box sign. Definitely reading the important stuff! :)

I knew it would happen, but it doesn't mean I didn't tear up over it! Audrey lost her first tooth yesterday. She had fallen in the kitchen about 6 months ago and had knocked her top two and bottom two front teeth loose. All had tightened back up except for one of her bottom teeth, and after the dentist took x-rays, she said that she was probably going to loose a tooth soon. Audrey had been closely monitoring it for days. I told Audrey the night before that I had no idea how it was still holding on, so we took a picture and kept our fingers crossed that she would wake up with all her teeth! She did, and successfully made it thru breakfast, but her tooth was no match for the peach she later bit into. She was soooooo excited that the Tooth Fairy would be coming that evening. Turns out that the evening takes a reaaaaaaaaallllllllly long time to get here when you want it to come fast! But, evening eventually came, and she tucked her tooth under her pillow and went to sleep like a pro. I was in our room this morning and when Audrey woke up, she came waltzing in with swinging her dollar bill. She was very excited. Especially since the day prior was her pay day. Two dollars in two days. Not bad for a 4 year-old! She's now working on getting her other teeth lose so she can break the bank!