Happy Birthday Dear Millie Jane!!

On September 26, 2006 little Millie Jane will be two years old. She will enthusiastically answer "TWO!" if you ask her how old she is, but if you ask her what her NAME is, she'll tell you she's two as well. hmmm. The real problem is that she thinks she is 5 years old. Maybe from having a doting older sister who is in fact 5 years old, but Millie doesn't even have any FRIENDS who are 2 years old (thus no birthday party--my first time in 5 years actually NOT having a party... I feel a little guilty, but she doesn't seem to mind).

The other day Millie went to visit Penelope in Kindergarten and she just sat on the rug with all the kids--the teacher didn't even notice her because she was just blending in with the crowd, so well behaved. She went to an assembly with them, just following along in line and sitting with all the big kids, and then afterwards sat in the little chairs like all the kindergarteners. When the teacher read a story, she would sit and listen. .. she puts up a fuss only if she has to leave the class.

She is already identifying letters, and I had no idea she even knew any letters! She brought me a book to read with ABC on the cover, and when I said it said ABC she corrected me, saying, "no, that's an O!" And when I looked at it, the C DID look like an O, because on the cover a hand is drawing the C, and covers up the open part of the C, making it look like an O. I was so surprised, I had her show me other letters she knew. And she knows M, N, and E.... and loves puzzles, so I have a wooden puzzle of letters, which we've been going through, talking about the letters and the sounds. Like I said, she thinks she is 5.