Here is a picture of a mammoth sunflower I planted in June. Now if I can just have a whole backyard of these sunflowers and other wildflowers. Instead we'll probably end up having a golf course behind us...lol. BTW, that sunflower is taller than Soph.
Soph really likes Kindergarten and likes her teacher, Mrs. Westover, a lot. Heck, I even like Mrs. Westover. She's a very nice, soft spoken, but stern teacher placing a lot of emphasis on reading. Based on previous experience, she has seen great strides amongst kids reading abilities when parents read to their child every day versus the ones that didn't. I read to Soph every night, if not several times throughout the day. For every 10 mins of reading, Soph colors in an apple for each day during the month of September. Once all the apples are colored in, she can hand in her "colored apples" to her teacher. This is an on-going assignment until the end of school.
Mrs. Westover's way of discipline is something I never heard of; she uses the marble method. She said when kids hear that marble drop in the jar...uh, oh.... it's a sound kids don't like to hear. They know they better shape-up, wise-up, otherwise parents will be receiving a phone call. Soph's a pretty well-behaved child and very mature for her age, so I'm not too worried about it.
She looks forward to school every day and wishes she could go even on the weekends. I can already see she is very interested in how everything works, including the human body. She saw a human body model at Barnes and Noble and immediately wanted it....NOT the barbie dolls, not anything one might think a 5 year old little girl would be interested in. From the time she was a baby, I can recall she showed definite preferences and was quite willful. She knows what she likes and what she doesn't and is still quite willful even to this day. However, she isn't very noisy about expressing her wants unless she wants it badly. So I broke down and got her the model human body even though it was geared for 8+ year olds. She absolutely luvs it!
If I had to point out one of Soph's strengths, it would definitely have to be her knack to memorize. She has excellent memory, memorizing all her favorite shows, commercials, books, etc. I find it quite humorous and amazing.
Hubby is home for this long weekend laboring around the house and work as usual. He's also enjoying his new car we got a couple of weeks ago. It's a beautiful bluish, gray sedan that has a lot of cool features. We had our car search narrowed down to one of three Mini JCW's and an R32.......BUT....... I received in the mail an outstanding, smokin', sweet deal for the BMW 328 iX. ....almost too good to be true....so, we thought....surprise, surprise!! Even though the BMW is more expensive than my Tiguan, payment wise it's cheaper than my Tiguan (same terms and all). I'm beginning to believe my.....ahh, never mind :o)
Enjoy your long Labor Day weekend!
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