Lots of updates

If you've been watching the Twitter feed, there's no doubt you've seen a lot of the exciting changes that have happened in the past few weeks. Sania has taken leaps and bounds through quite a few milestones. As you can see in the photo gallery linked from the picture above, Sania is now sleeping in a (little) big girl bed. She is now also potty-trained, though still sleeping with a princess pull-up, mostly because she likes them.

Reid got his progress report from the old kindergarten, and he did very well. Kindergarten is a strange animal; he's there for all of two hours and forty-five minutes, and there isn't a ton of instructing that can be done in that time. Still, they lay out the kindergarten equivalent of standardized tests to basically create some kind of baseline for his reading, sound-making, and other fundamental skills. The teacher ran through them with us at a crisp pace during our first parent-teacher conference, and although she refrained from declaring Reid a super-genius, his numbers were pretty solid.

Reid is wrapping up his first extracurricular activity. I haven't thought of it as such until just this second, since again "curricular" activities are contained within a half-day of kindergarten, but his K-3 drama class has been lots of fun, it appears. He will perform an un-named role in the finale performance of "The Brave Little Tailor" this Wednesday. Reid has emphasized that he doesn't have a major role because he doesn't have a costume. Apparently, neither astronauts nor Spider-Man have a role in this particular play. Quite a shame.

Emotionally, you know Reid is sometimes a touchy sort. I think, though, that overall he's been more stable, and less likely to burst into tears when signs point to him not getting his own way, which is a nice thing. Unfortunately, Sania has picked up where he let off, throwing hissy fits and demanding an enormous amount of personal freedom, considering she's two and a half. Not, however, a surprising development. Enjoy the photos.