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Tuesday, October 2, 2012

3 Years Old and Kindergarten!!

It has been busy busy busy around the Gallagher household.  Izabell turned 3, Brady started kindergarten and I started back teaching!  I can't believe my baby girl is 3.  At her three year check up she weighed in at 30 pounds and was 36 and 3/4 inches, just below the 50th percentile for both.  So when she was born she was off the charts and now she is just a little peanut!  She is just now into her 3T clothes but some 2T things still fit her.  She is doing really good with puzzles and will do about a 50 piece puzzle all on her own.  I can't believe it!!!!!!!!!  She LOVES strawberry shortcake and has decided that is what she wants to be for Halloween.  She also loves, babies, books, coloring, her taggie and blankies, lip gloss and chapstick, the pool or anything with water, dressing up and wearing her dress up shoes!  But as much as she loves the girlie things she also loves to wrestle with daddy and Brady, have pillow fights with Brady, jumping, climbing and running everywhere.  She also can't wait until she can play t-ball when she is four!  We are thinking about putting her in gymnastics this year and then dance next year along with t-ball of course :) 
My birthday girl (we let her open a few presents right away in the morning!!


More presents from GeDa and Grandma Sandy and Grandpa Rick!  Grandma Deb sent a Wii for the kids for their birthdays and we have really been enjoying that :)

We did a joint birthday party for Brady's 5th birthday and Izabell's 3rd birthday.  I decided on a "Beach Theme".  It turned out really well and was fun putting it together!












Brady is now in kindergarten!!!!!!!!  Again I can't believe it, he is just growing up so fast.  They changed the kindergarten program at the school he attends and he now goes every day all day.  He is LOVING it but is pretty tired and hungry when school is done.  He always finishes eating whatever he has leftover in his lunch and kind of just chills out as soon as he gets home.  He is making new friends and also seems to be doing good on school work.  They are making sight word books at school and he has brought home about five or six of those so we try to read them every night.  He has only learned a few words so far but he still enjoys reading the books!  Just today he brought home some math homework that he worked on, patterning, writing numbers, an addition and subtraction problem and he did a good job!!  Thankfully this is all still math that I can help him with :)  He has also wanted to get hot lunch a couple times and there is just something about him getting hot lunch that makes me feel like he is so grown up!  He is also really into writing "words" now and asking me what they say.  Sometimes it really is a word but sometimes it's just some letters together but even that is really good :)  Brady also gets to go to music, gym, art and library.  They keep them pretty busy in kindergarten, which I LOVE!!!




Hope everyone is having a great start to the school year!