The Daily Hailey

My two older kids have been working on their writing. Dekker, because he’s in school and thats an obvious part of learning, and Laela because she wants to and has been seeing Dekker do it. I’m SO thrilled at how far Dekker has come! He has been jumping into every reading level along the way, staying right on par with where they want kids to be in his grade, even skipping a few because its coming naturally! Win! Laela knows SO MUCH going into kindergarten, which is the beauty of her having an older sibling, I’d say 🙂 She is so ready, yet still so little and funny. I hope all of children always write at least some of their letters backwards!

I’m starting with Laela today, because I ALWAYS go in order of age. Today, ladies go first.

I’m not sure what it says at the very top, but she wrote out her alphabet yesterday all on her own, and I’m SO proud of her!!! I think the E is my favorite, lol! The V is a close second. I’ll be the first to admit that I haven’t taught her much this year at all. This is ALL her! So considering that, or even not considering that, I think she’s doing an amazing job!! Laela, your kindergarten teacher won’t have any doubts about you 🙂

And to Dekker! Not so much focused on his writing, but what he wrote!

“I went to my eye appointment. I loved my eye drops.”

😭

If you guys have been here long enough, you know what a struggle we went through with Dekker and his eyes. It was small potatoes compared to lots of big picture things, but even small things need dealing on and talking about. The fact that this is what Dekker chose to write about for his homework blew me away. He was very proud, too, of his efforts to spell “appointment.” It was “apoytmint” first, which I LOVED, but he insisted I tell him the correct way to spell it so he could get it perfect. The message just choked me up, though. My little boy is no longer scared of eye appointments. I never pictured we’d reach this point. It felt impossible, but just that it was going to be our reality, and that was ok. Sometimes things are hard! But this is even better!!

Way to go, little smarties!! I’m sure proud of you guys!!!