The last few days

Again, I'm blogging several days worth of school at once. I can't really remember what day we did what, so I'll just give an overview.
One day we made yarn dolls. I held the yard and the girls got to cut their yarn. It was good scissor work. Emma has an easier time with that than Alex does. The practice was good. Then we turned their yarn into dolls. Each girl got to help hold the yarn while I tied the right places. They carried those dolls around all day.




We've continued working on letter recognition and today we spent half an hour writing. That seemed to be Alex's limit before she was tired and frustrated. The problem is she wants to keep going but just can't. She did a great job of tracing and then writing letters, all uppercase right now. I worked on drawing circles and crosses with Emma, two basic shapes that lead into writing skills later.
We tied the fine motor skills and alphabet together by doing some connect the dots. A dinosaur book that we got on our trip to the museum in Eureka Springs last month. Each dot has a letter and it was good practice. We did a lot of hand over hand work and then they each did a little bit independently. I've noticed that Alex is using mainly her left hand right now. She seems to do equally well with both hands. I think that Emma favors the right, but it's still hard to tell.
Drew got each of the girls a Hannah Montana glitter art set and Saturday we all sat at the table and played. Markers, glitter pens, glitter paint, stickers and rhinestones. They had a lot of fun... we all did.



Emma seems to have big & little down. She likes to point it out whenever she can.
We are also starting the potty thing again. It's hard work but we are going to give it another try with a different approach this time. I bought them each a new potty chair and we are keeping them in the living room for quick use. Emma doesn't seem to have much control. Alex tries really hard, but the physical requirements for going potty by yourself are very difficult (getting clothes down, getting on the potty without falling off, etc.). We are giving it a try though.
We have also made a habit of meeting Lisa, Hannah and Abigail at the park on Thursday mornings. Fun play/social time and great exercise. I've started a new class at church on Thursday nights and although there isn't a class for the girls, they get to play with Mollie and a few other friends for the evening.