October 2010

 

Friends

Friends? 

Anyone there?

Yoo Hoo?

 

 

 

It’s a new all-time record for a delayed blog posting, and although the title says October 2010, you all know that this didn’t really get written until after Christmas.  Sorry.  Stuff happened – and we didn’t take the time to stop and write down what was going on.  So tonight is the night – we’ll cover off the highlights from the last 9 weeks in three posts. 

 

I’d promised an update on Rachel in my last posting, and the really big development this fall is that she’s matured enormously from a social perspective.  She’d been a little shy and withdrawn, particularly at school and around kids she didn’t know.  Now, however – it’s like she found a big pile of confidence.  She'll engage other kids at the playground, she’s the social center of her preschool class, and she’ll say what she means and disagree with her brother. 

 

One by one, the “Rachel-isms” are also disappearing, and since this is the closest thing we have to a permanent record – the two that we didn’t want to forget about are:

“Aminals.”  For some reason, Rachel swapped the M and N for well over a year.

“I am not TIE-WED” – Rachel still uses W in many places where conventional wisdom would suggest an R, but they are gradually disappearing.

And one that showed up this fall was the statement: “Who could not like ice cream?” with “Ice Cream” substituted for many other things that she couldn’t believe weren’t universally loved.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Rachel has been going to gymnastics once/week all fall, and has great balance.  She seems to really enjoy herself there.  And though I can’t seem to find any pictures from swim lessons, she’s been doing very well there too.  By the end of the fall term, she could swim somewhat unassisted between platforms in the pool, and will be starting next term at “Level 4”, which we’re all happy about.

And she’s our little artist.  To show all of the variations of her work would require many, many pictures.  Suffice it to say that she’ll draw/paint/stamp/sticker/glue/sprinkle with great enthusiasm several times a day, and that she can go through art supplies like no-one else. 

Recently, she’s started focusing a little more on coloring in the lines, and the idea that something “looks like” something.  But the abstract period is not over – it’s been supplemented.

 

So then there was the rest of October.  I last posted on the 18th, and we were getting ready for Haloween.  Before that happened, we had a couple of truly gorgeous weekends, and the kids played in the leaves.

 

 

 

 

 

 

As previously disclosed – Daniel went out as “Captain Rex” while Rachel and Anida were cats.  For once it was a nice, warm evening, and we trolled around a couple of blocks in the neighborhood collecting way too much candy.  The kids took turns ringing doorbells, had a good time with it.

We had decided to let them eat as much candy as they wanted to, with the idea that the rest would get thrown away.  The latter part of the plan didn’t happen, but Daniel did get to discover that too much of a good thing might not feel so good.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And that takes us to the end of October around here.

 

Love,

ADRE