Love of Learning!

I took this picture of Lily with her stocking that she decorated last night in the car this morning before school. :D She did a great job on it. She is a little artist and so creative!
Earlier, I took this picture of Kaylee in her new dress/leggings we got her last night. I'm not sure why it's all weird looking at the top, but I thought she looked cute :)
Kaylee was trying out for UIL spelling, creative writing, and oral reading this year. Her teacher held tryouts in their class and then Kaylee was allowed to try out officially for those teams. I was very proud of her because she made it to the final 5 on spelling and she's not technically in the GT class (although I think they made a mistake since she's making all 100's in her class!). Anyhow, she made the creative writing team! Yay! We never did hear back if she made spelling, but they can't be on two teams, and she said she would rather be on the writing team
anyways. I am just so proud of her! She LOVES to read and when she told me what her story was about that she wrote for tryouts, I was amazed at how creative it was!

Madison tried out for several teams again too. She has been on the spelling team the past two years. She got 1st place in 3rd grade and 3rd place last year, but she made it all the way to the final tryout round and then didn't make it this year. She missed one word and that was enough! I am still so proud of her though and I told her that it's nice to give someone else a chance this year. Ha! She didn't even have time to study for the tryout rounds, so it's probably best she didn't make it since she's so busy with dance this year.

I'm so glad that my girls are doing so well in school. One of my main goals in life is to never stop learning and I hope that my girls will have a love of learning just like I do. I always used to joke that I could be a professional student. I love school!!!

Madison has always picked up things really quickly, without really any help from me, and she just knows things.......just like her Dad. She isn't a big reader though, unless it's a book series that she just really loves. And she is just so laid-back. Even when she didn't make spelling, she was like, "oh well." She has always been in the GT class and consistently makes high A's in them without really even studying. She loves to draw fairies and is currently writing a book about fairies. :)

Kaylee is more like me. She loves to learn, tries really hard, and takes it really seriously (that is SO like me) and she LOVES to read. She begged me for all the Harry Potter books for Christmas. She is also our resident artist and loves to paint! She is very creative and sensitive, and a constant rule-follower. She likes things to be a certain way and she will not deviate from what she believes is the proper way! At any given time, she has about 10 books piled up in her backpack. LOL!

Lily is doing well too! She knows how to count to 10, write many of her letters and her name, knows most of the letter sounds, and can say her ABC's. She can already add and subtract simple math and do pattern worksheets and things like that at school. She still won't say much at school, but she talks non-stop at home.

It's so fun to see their own little personalities coming out. I like to sit and just think about their uniqueness and wonder how God might use that as they grow up. I hope I can encourage them to always be themselves, to be who God made them to be, instead of trying to be like others or who they think we want them to be.