Joy School

I got a few pictures from Leah's Joy School adventures this week.  Despite the very occasional protest from her about getting up and out the door so early (9:00!), she loves Joy School.  There is a great group of kids in her class, including Jacob, who she has recently declared as her best friend.  This isn't anything new- she's always liked him.  I just continue to find it adorable.  As long as she still wants to marry Adam, she can like any other boy she wants.

I am slowly gathering a group of moms that are interested in doing another Joy School next year.  I love the class just as much as Leah does, and I'm really hoping we can get another great group of families together.

Even though I always assumed Leah would go to a formal preschool, it's just not what's right for her.  So I've adjusted my expectations, and now I'm really looking forward to another year of Joy School.

Leah is really interested in numbers right now- she loves counting to 100, can do basic arithmetic ("if we have two and then we add three, then that makes five!"), and always wants to know what a series of numbers makes (1 and 1 and 1 makes 111). 

She also loves dinosaurs and is so curious about why they aren't on the earth anymore.  She will ask me several times a day if other animals are still alive, ususally in hopes that they aren't.  Snakes?  Wolves?  Lemurs?  She hates lemurs because they have such beady eyes. 

We are definitely in the throws of Why? Why? Why?  It's occasionally trying, but I usually love watching the little wheels in her head turn as she processes the information, such as why we have to live on the earth because it's the only planet that has water.  She is definitely my little sponge.