Coastal Storm Brings Awful Weather

Yep, we're getting POUNDED with rain. A full blown Nor'easter. The schools are all canceled today and it's really miserable outside. On a cheerier note, Sophia loves to play in the rain and yesterday morning she got all decked out in her rain gear and went outside to have some fun. The fun didn't last long and she was back inside within a half hour. I think it was too windy for her.

We had a fun day inside not doing much of anything and today will be more of the same. Maybe we'll make a cake. Speaking of cake, here's a conversation I had with Sophia yesterday:
Sophia: Mommy, do Moms get presents on their birthdays?
Shirley: Some Mommys do.
Sophia: Oh. Will you get a cake for your birthday?
Shirley: Who's going to make the cake? You and Daddy?
Sophia: You're the cooker, Mommy. You have to make the cake.
(I laughed so hard and her calling me the cooker).

In the afternoon Sophia and I played school while Lilly was rummaging though their bathroom drawers. At Sophia's parent/teacher conference last week Mrs. Harden told me that Sophia is ready to get her first phonics book and start learning how to read, BUT she can't put her into the book until Sophia can write her upper case letters. Mrs. Harden must have said it 10 times...she's ready to read! We've been practicing writing her letters at home, but I'm sure she listens to Mrs. Harden better than Mom or Dad. She goofs off every time I try to work with her. I bought her a few phonics story books and we've been reading them to her at night.

Back to our pretend school yesterday:

I wrote the word C-A-T on her chalkboard and she immediately said CAT. Wow, I thought. I said how about this one and I immediately wrote the word R-A-T underneath C-A-T. Sophia shouted out BEAR! HA HA

One more thing about Sophia's parent/teacher conference. Mrs. Harden stated a number of times that Sophia is really bright. She came into the year knowing her shapes, colors, letter and their sounds, and numbers. She can count all the way to 30 (not something a lot of kids her age can do). Mrs. Harden was especially please by her ability to rhyme words too. She said not many kids can do that at age 3. Sophia was described as a sweet little girl with two very opposite sides: One is sensitive "boo hoo" as Mrs. Harden put it and the other side is "domineering" at times. I had to completely agree with Mrs. Hardens synopsis, but all in all I'm so happy that I got a fantastic report about Sophia, my big girl.