First meeting

Today was the first meeting for the new Lego League group.  There is one new girl but the rest we knew from last year.  She seems great and the kids had a lot of fun with her.  Today was mostly playing to get the group used to each other.  Bohdin pulled out a board game and afterward they played various things including a variation of duck duck goose that involved the goose posing the ducks.  It's at our house this year and I think it will be a lot of fun for the kids.  Bohdin and Nyla really enjoyed it.  I think Cora will warm up by the end of the season.  She wasn't holding onto me as much as she was two weeks ago. 

Yesterday was a social day as well when the M- clan came over in the afternoon.  Nyla wasn't interested in playing at first because she had a shot earlier in the day and wanted to be sad about it.  Eventually she realized that playing would be more fun and she started playing tag with the rest of them.  When we bought our house we knew it was a great tag house and it has certainly been utilized in that regard.  I don't think we'll even have a circle in the next house.  They are spoiled here with the double circles or triple circles if you include the kitchen island. 

I caught whatever the kids had and it hit me the hardest.  Cora has begun to play more with Bohdin and Nyla instead of hanging out with me all of the time so that was helpful.  She'll go with them for a while but they often play big kid games that she can't do.  Cora tries to play Playmobil but she wants to touch what Nyla touches which results in a screaming Nyla.  She will play chase with the older two and some of the other physical games like jumping from the bench onto the couch.  She's been trying harder to act like them.  She chooses cereal for breakfast like Nyla even though she doesn't like cereal.  Today she wanted to do schoolwork like Nyla.  I copied Nyla's page for her and she scribbled on it.  She was quite proud of her work.  She also has fallen in love with the ladybug shirt that Nyla is wearing on the screensaver I have on the laptop.  Tonight at the library, Cora ran to the board book section and grabbed a stack of books.  She put them in the library bag and carried them herself throughout the library, into the car, and then home.  She looked at books on the way home the same way that Bohdin likes to do when he goes to the library.