Valentine’s Day is close. Leilani is obsessed with hearts, she found this one to look like a heart and needed to take it’s photo.
And while she was at it: Still Life
Dining-kitchen
Feet
Year: 2010
“But Leilani, what would your teacher say if she saw you like this?”
“I don’t behave like this at school!!!”
“Why not?”
“I don’t want my teacher to see my badness level!”
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Goodness-level and Badness level are probably registered trademarks or copyrighted by Disney – she got the words from Lilo and Stitch.
Still not the entire blog, and it is better than it was… but I was so far behind that I did a Christmas blog article before Thanksgiving was done – so I did a few backdated ones, starting with Thanksgiving, and then Leilani’s Birthday. If you have not seen them but want to just use the “Older Posts” link at the bottom of the page, and go back till Thanksgiving.
There are still a few others I posted today these below went in between Christmas and now:
The 2nd Christmas
Driving to LA on the 26th and 27th, CA Missions
3rd Christmas this time with Grandma and David
La Brea Tarpits
The Getty
Rose Parade
Driving Home from LA – Santa Barbara Mission
Christmas and Beyond
and a few between Disneyland and the current posts:
Leilani has been attending Millbrae Nursery School since July, and all of us love it. Well, I’m not sure I love being the webmaster, but that’s a totally different issue. I begin to understand the difference between webmaster and webdesigner…
Although our previous preschool, Glen Oaks Montessori was very expensive and prestigious, Leilani had cried often about not wanting to go, now it is the opposite, I have a hard time getting her home.
The playground is awesome. Indoors, additionally to the educational toys there are dolls, plastic dinosaurs and animals as well as trains; There is dressup and pretend play, free play, creative play, and after having had Leilani in a school for a year that did not have any of these makes me really appreciate the difference. Leilani loves the loft area, a special area that gets opened occasionally, they climb up on the ladder, and play with the “special” toys that are up there.
The teachers are all super nice. They know all the names of kids and family, and they work with kids socially and teach them not to only play with their friends and within their cliques, but also play with others. I am so impressed how they work with behaviorally challenged kids and integrate them within a short time, I could not believe the change in behavior I have seen in at least 2 kids within a short time.
Leilani made huge progress, her communication and conversation skills I find impressive, she shows much more empathy and is able to listen longer (unless of course we preach or lecture her…). She writes her name in upper and lower case letters, and now starts reading the regular way. She does beautiful artwork, drawing, painting, that was an area she had regressed so much in within the previous year, and I am so happy that she developed that interest again.
I was a little scared of the co-op experience at first, but it is a real community, and very enjoyable, and educational for the parents. Leilani loves my workday, then I am teacher Sonja, and I often get to do art projects with the kids, that’s a lot of fun for me almost as much as for the kids.