Ruby has spent a lot of time at various day camps. She Went to SSTVS and wrote the funniest story about a wolf that did not have a good day, learned to cook at two different camps, did some math reasoning, made secret formulas, learned how to beat summer boredom by reading, did some bird watching and birdhouse making, improved her piano skills, studied Fairy Tales, and is about to perform her first off Broadway show about 4th of July on Friday! She is such a busy girl...if only I had 1/4 the energy she has I would be ecstatic!
Lily has changed preschools because she basically learned nothing at her previous school for the entire school year...wait, she did learn how to behave in a chaotic environment so I guess she did learn something! Not that she isn't smart, but the teachers at her old school had zero classroom management skills and so for most of the year she wasn't joining the class for circle time or story time because they didn't know ow to make her sit still....funny that this has not been even a minute problem at her new school...hmmmm. She doing much better now, but has to hurry and catch up to the others that have learned letter identification and writing already. We are trying to help her so that she can move up the next class when the school year starts. Until last week Lily had not even picked up a pencil at school except to scribble. She is having a very hard time understanding that you don't scribble the lines of the letters, but I bet she'll be the best letter tracer by the end of the summer!
I have been trying to night potty train BOTH girls this summer, and so far only Lily has been successful. She stays dry all night while poor Ruby soaks her sheets more that once and doesn't even wake up. We've tried everything, but I guess she is just too tired and sleeps too hard. We try not to make a big deal out of it, but it still bothers her, especially since Lily isn't having this problem. Ruby used to be night trained, but stopped for some reason when she was about 4 1/2 and hasn't been able to bounce back. Oh well, we will just wash sheets every day if we have too!
On a much more fun note, GiGi just bought a pontoon boat! So, we will get to spend the weekends at the lake now! The girls are so excited to go the beach and GiGi and I have had quite the frustrating time of finding swimsuits that are some kind of flattering...not very easy!
I haven't taken many pictures in a while, but I do have these from Sunday of the girls after they played in the sprinkler. Ruby was trying to be so glamorous in her towel wrap, which of course made Lily strike a pose!
