Feeling February

 Claire

She is quite competitive and likes to 'race' with writing practice but to win she always says "magic magic slow" so that I don't go very fast. She gets really distracted all the time and I usually have to encourage her to go faster each time but she is holding the pencil and getting good practice. Her reading is lacking because Shay always wants to help out and Claire gets frustrated when her space gets invaded then starts saying her brain hurts if we do it for too long. I hope I'm doing enough to help her learn, she is getting great at coloring and not scribbling all over the pictures, and she is very imaginative when she plays. I can tell she is learning things because she will explain things to Shay like what an ice cream truck is when we hear the music. She knows about checkers even though she doesn't know how to play it, and she remembers names of her toys a lot more often than she used to.

Shay 

We are only 10 days away until this little girl turns 3! I am in shock how fast she seems to be growing and even though it is still hard to understand her speech because she doesn't enunciate exactly right she talks really well. I was always concerned for Claire being behind when she was turning three and worried she wasn't talking enough but Shay hasn't had that problem! She is fully potty trained, knows her ABCs, numbers up to 20ish, can do easy puzzles, and has so many things that make her seem older than she should be. Something about wanting to be just like her sister is making her learn so fast and still she is able to have her own favorite things like PJ masks and Frozen. She does copy her sister's new games when they play together and has to have her turn doing everything even if it is just hiding under a blanket behind me in the kitchen so I pick her up and put her on the couch...super fun game.