Time4Learning, and general updates

I just decided to sign Erika up for the Time4Learning site. She seems bored with preschool online stuff, and thought the demo activities were fun. We'll see how it goes!

We've been playing a lot of board games lately -- Gobblet Jr., Set, and Uno are the favorites right now. Erika also recently did a moderately complicated maze in her head before setting pen to paper, instead of trying out different routes with the pen. We thought that was pretty cool! There are constantly new developments in her drawings; last week, she drew a picture of a house where she left the clouds un-colored-in and colored the sky blue; it's the first time I've seen her take advantage of the color of the paper as part of the artwork.

She can read all of the Bob Books in the first two Costco collections (goes up through the end of "Bob Books Set 3"); I haven't given her the third collection yet, because I thought she needed time for the stuff she learned in the first 2 collections to really sink in.

Her German has been really taking off in the last few months; she now initiates conversations with me in German quite often. Yay!