The Daily Hailey

We’ve all been some form of sick for a little while now. Thankfully, its NOWHERE near as awful as our spell of sickness last year. Its just kind of an annoying, persistent cold. No big deal, really. Yesterday, however, Laela developed a super yucky chesty cough, and while she tried pretty hard to cough into her arm every chance she got, it was probably successful once every five coughs. I decided yesterday already that today wouldn’t be a good day to take her to school. Even though her mood was happy and she seemed capable enough, I didn’t want her to be coughing on everything and everyone at preschool. When I broached the subject this morning, she hesitated, but surprisingly agreed to stay home. She loves preschool, so I knew right then that she was’t feeling great, and she knew it. She was content to stay home and colour.

A few minutes before I left, she pulled out her paper and some markers, and asked me to draw the number 2 at the top of the page. I did it, and she started practicing!

She did great! But lost interest pretty quick. I then remembered that I was armed with education, lol!

I bought these little work books in summer with the intention to casually run through them with Dekker and Laela right before school and preschool started, just to get a good refresh for Dekker and some motor skills with Laela. August turned out to be not our best month, if you remember, so it never happened. Well, today was the day 🙂 I pulled out Laela’s pre-K one and she went to town on it!

She held her marker the right way, even, which was awesome!! Sadly, I had to leave right as she got started, but once Laela got to the letter portion, Brady documented it for me.

I was so excited to see how eager she was to practice letters, and how she herself initiated the whole thing! She’s such a sweet little girl <3 Even when she’s sick, she’s still impressing me.

Way to go, Laela!!!