Saturday, December 5, 2015

Updates on Zuri!


I kept sitting down to do a post on the kids and then something would come up!  They are both such busy little kids.

Zuri has been going to school.  She LOVES her montessori school.  It is actually a school that goes from pk3 all the way till 12th grade.  I like that she will have the same teachers for 3 years and so they will know her and what she needs to work on.  Right now she loves just doing "work" in class.  Work, meaning she likes to water the plants, juice oranges, polish silverware and wood.  She has also been enjoying coloring.  She knows how to trace the letters of her name, but still cannot write them on her own.  She also can tell you how to spell Z-U-R-I.  And definitely can recognize all of the letters and sounds.  The classroom is extremely organized because the kids have to put away each thing before they can take out a new thing.  

Zuri will not nap at school and so she is extremely tired from the minute I pick her up from school until she goes to bed.  Which is a lot of fun for me (not really!).  She likes to pick out her own clothes to wear and will frequently come out in something different each morning and tell me how it matches.  She also likes to make her own breakfast.  For instance she likes to make toast or even pour her own milk into her oatmeal.  She is very proud of herself.

She is also quite difficult some days.  She likes to yell at Avi and grab things from Avi, which then leads to Avi crying. Since she is so opinionated it can be hard to deal with her and convince her of something.  Just an example of her opinionatedness is that I will tell her I love the color blue and red. You would think that most kids would say they like it too, because their parents do.  But not Zuri, she says I don't like those, I like pink and purple.  

Her favorite animal is a Zebra because it starts with a Z.  She wants to wear her hair down, or possibly with a braid.  She wants her clothes to match and wants there to be "something" on her shirt. Something means a flower one day or an animal the next, but I never know what "something" it is that she is adamant about having.  So, now she just takes her chair and goes to her closet and grabs the shirt she wants, since apparently I am no help at all.

Zuri loves to eat pepperoni's.  Her favorite breakfast is cold oatmeal.  Her favorite lunch for school is dumpling soup with cheese, tomatoes, fruit and pepperoni's.  Her favorite take out meal is buffalo wild wings and she loves to eat this as leftovers the next morning.  


Zuri took a sports of all sorts class and loved doing lots of sports.  She has also been in swimming lessons, which I think are not very good, but she likes going.  She also has loved going down the waterslide with us.  

The last week we have taken Zuri to her first movie at the theater, The Good Dinosaur and she was very good and sat there the whole time.  We also took her to go see Disney Frozen on Ice.  Which really confused her that the people were actually alive and right there! 

 Sometimes her maturity surprises me but then the meltdowns remind me that she is 3 years old (almost 4!).

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