Three. Three. Four.

I called it yesterday! Today was a really busy day. Really productive, but really busy! And it started off with an addition to the reading log!

She read this one with ease. I'm going to have to go harder on the books when I go to the library! She'll be reading Harry Potter herself soon!

In Math, Babe practiced a bit more with measuring and sorting shortest to tallest. Then came the estimation and, like always, she had a bit of a tough time being wrong, but not nearly as bad as the last time. I reminded her that estimations were guesses, not answers, and she was OK. I asked her to grab a bunch of stuffed animals from her room, and then sort them shortest to tallest. Then I had her estimate how many inches each animal was. Then we measured for real! She actually did really really well with her estimations here!

Math took a while today because she was having fun using the connecting blocks and ruler to measure her animals, so I let her do whatever. After her worksheets were complete, I asked Babe and Bubs (Z was out today) to sit on the couch and handed Babe the remote control for the DVD player. We listened to an audio book for "Julius, the Baby of the World" by Kevin Henkes, but I had Babe do the commands for the player. She couldn't remember the eject button, but I handed her the flash cards we made and she found it right away with the help of those. She did each command - power, eject, play, rewind, stop, and eject, and power again.

After that, we headed to the library, where Babe got to help the teacher out with a story for the little kids. Babe eats that stuff up and the teacher loves her, and the kids pay more attention when a peer is involved, so it's win-win-win. Even Bubs, when I put her in her car seat after class, said, "That was fun!"

After library and lunch, Babe added a second book to her reading log today. Another one she read with ease. Although, the dog's name in the book was Princess, and she kept saying "princesses." I guess all those soft 'c' sounds can be all confusing. But after I corrected her a few times, she was good to go for the rest of the book.

When I put Bubs to bed, I told Babe we were now going to write instructions using the sequence words she learned yesterday, but instead of baking a cake, we were going to write the steps to brushing your teeth. She remembered that the order of words went "first", "next", "then" and "last". While she was illustrating the instructions, I couldn't help but laugh out loud at her cute drawings.

Directions as follows:

1. Put the toothpaste on the toothbrush

2. Brush your teeth

3. Spit (notice how dirty the spit is, filled with "corn and broccoli")

4. Brush teeth again.

5. Spit again (this time, clean spit comes out)

6. Brush your tongue

I put the cards out of order and had her do the actions in silly ways and she was laughing the whole time.

"How can I spit if I haven't brushed my teeth yet!?"

We then rolled into Science, where we learned about what months are in each season. First, I had her put the months in order. When she did that, without one mistake, I had her cut out the season pictures from her worksheet and place them each on their own sheet of paper, in order (Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter). I then showed her the months in Winter, knowing her slight compulsiveness would be upset that the first month of the year was in the middle of Winter. With Winter's months done, she was able to figure out that the first season of the year, Spring, started in March, and so on and so forth with the rest of the seasons. To conclude this activity, we looked through magazines and catalogs for one picture to cut out and glue for each season. This will be an ongoing activity.

To end the day, I brought out one of the brand new books from our Scholastic order that I've been hiding from her. I knew she'd freak when she saw it, and I was excited for her to read it herself, but I was convinced it'd be a little tough for her to read on her own. When I showed it to her, she did exactly what I thought she'd do. Drop her jaw, gasp, and want to read it immediately. I explained to her that it might be a little hard for her, but that if she read it all by herself, I'd let her place the stickers where they needed to be in the book. She was determined to read it, and you know what?

SHE TOTALLY DID.

All by herself. I was so impressed. I thought it'd be tough because there were more words than usual on each page, plus lots of conversation between characters. But while she read, I asked her questions about what was happening and her comprehension was spot on. Towards the end of the book, she even guessed what was going to happen!

It was very impressive and I had goosebumps after every page she read. It was perfection.

And you know what that made today? A three-book day! Three! That's never happened before.

Amazing.