Today we had a meeting at Zach's preschool regarding the preparation for next year. Nothing like sitting in a room at 8:30am to discuss where your child should fall on the scale to make you feel the smack of reality. Zach is right where he should be for his age and can write his own name better then most of the kids in his class, but I am worried about the process of teaching him to read. Zach and I don't work well together on his homework and usually I have Gary oversee it with him. When I sit down to do his homework he wants me to do everything for him even though he knows the answers, but when Gary helps him he does it perfect as if he enjoys getting the "good job" from him more so then me. I doesn't bother me though, because it is a good bonding opportunity for them.
We discussed in the meeting about all the "self help" things that they could be expected to do by the time they start next year. Of all the things on the list only tying the shoes Zach was able to do. I was surprised when they said that they still had kids in his class that could not zipper their own jacket. I have a book that we bought to help teach him how to tie shoes, but right now he is only able to get the first step of crossing the strings and tying the first knot.
I can not believe that he is already registered for Kindergarten. I have always said that having kids makes life go by so much quicker. It amazes me just to look at pictures from a year ago and see the difference in him. This picture is his school picture from this year...
I could not believe how much he looked like a little boy and not so much like a toddler any more. I actually thought at first glance that they had sent me the wrong pictures. Thankfully you can't tell in this picture that this sweater is quite big on him. He got it from my brother and sister in law for Christmas and it was a 5/6, but it looked good on him none the less.
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