I am so proud of that little girl.

She’s staying at pre-k all day by herself now, and she’s coming home with lots of work that she’s done during the day. Her teachers adore her and rant and rave about how smart she is.

She’s so tiny compared to the other kids, she barely comes up to the bottom of most of their rib cages. There is one little girl that’s only a few inches taller than her, but the rest of the class towers over her. But she isn’t the least bit concerned about that. I watched her play the other day when she didn’t realize I was there and she was right in the thick of things.

Yesterday morning at speech therapy the therapist was trying to get her to say chair. TT was saying it like care, and they worked on it for a few minutes and finally TT stopped and looked at the therapist and said her version of “sofa”. I was in the observation room and while the therapist laughed she held the picture up so I could see it. And yes, it could also have been a small loveseat, close enough to a sofa. But the meaning was clear, it was like TT said, “I’m tired of not getting it right, so we’ll just call it something else, okay?”

She loves her little dance class, and they had the tiniest ballet shoes that actually fit her. One of the other little ones was in a mommy-and-me class last year so she already knows the little warmups and stuff that they do. TT is doing them right there with her, and the other little girls are mostly sitting in their moms’ laps and watching at this point. But my little one is out there shaking her little rear end every chance she gets. Cute doesn’t begin to describe it.

It’s funny, there are things GG was doing at two that TT still isn’t ready to do. And now there are things TT is doing that there is no way GG would have been ready for at this age. Their little personalities are so different. And they each have their own talents.

As I type this, GG has TT in her lap and is reading an Elmo book to her. I had not been letting GG count reading these books as going toward her required 30 minutes a day of reading, but her teacher said that she could count ten minutes of it by reading to her sister. She stressed that GG can read to TT as long as she wants, but only ten minutes of it count. And GG still has to do at least another 20 minutes at her own reading level, but her teacher said that reading out loud to her sister is also a good thing.

I think that’s a pretty nice compromise, and it means that TT has been getting an extra couple of books a day read to her. I count my blessings every day that those two girls love each other so much.

RK has some stuff going on at work and will likely work most of today and tomorrow, so it’s just the girls and I. Right now the game plan involves a play ground and probably eating out somewhere fun. Or maybe I’ll put a picnic together and we can eat at a park somewhere.

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