Quinn's Spring 2011 Progress Report

It has been a delight to have Quinn in our class this year!! She is always proud of her ability to sign in daily.

Quinn is very creative when playing with her peers, both at centers in the classroom or outside. Occasionally we continue to remind Quinn she is not the "boss" or "teacher." She quickly re-approaches the situation and restates the comment. We are proud of Quinn's success.

We know next year will be a terrific year for Quinn in Pre-K!!! Thank you for sharing Quinn with us!!

I've got bad news quote

"I've got bad news.... Brock is following me." --Quinn

Sleeping at dinner

Yesterday, we somehow managed to exhaust Quinn so much that she fell asleep during dinner. Literally mid-bite.

Reading and words

I was reading, waiting for Quinn to go to sleep. I don't know if someone said this to her or if she made it up, but I loved it: She said, "You read in your imagination. Sometimes I talk in silent words."

Quinn wins

Quinn and I were trying to decide who was hungrier. I raised one hand and said I was hungrier. She raised one hand and said she was hungrier. I raised the other hand. She raised the other hand. I raised a leg. She raised a leg. I raised the other leg. So did she. I said we must both be equally hungry. She said she raised her head so she was the hungriest! It's tough when a 3 1/2 year old beats you at your own game. It was just the kind of argument Drew would have won at that age too. It's really fun to see him getting his own back. :-)

Sounding like mom

Well I've heard two quotes from Quinn that are straight from her mom:

What the hay!
Mother of god!

What's daddy's job

So, as we dropped off Quinn at school, a recent art project was hanging on the wall entitled "What does your daddy do at work?"

Quinn's project said: "He helps John" :)

This is referring to John Bennett, a co-worker and friend who has been over to dinner several times.

Thank you to myself

Quinn, who happened to help choose my new deodorant, said it smelled "Wonderful!" and that she needed to say thank you to herself, for choosing it.

"Thank you self.... hehe hehe hehe"

360Flex conference

Quinn loved meeting some of my friends from the conference. She also enjoyed learning about pool (billiards).

Role model

Teaching Quinn the word role model and what it means. I think she likes having that job

Denver

Trip to Denver for daddy's conference and to see Jee Sun and Leah.... Despite crappy customer service from United, a pretty good travel day overall

Spinach

Mild miracle tonight... Quinn says she does not like spinach but she does like leaves... So while she was munching on spinach leaves from our separated salad, I asked if she knew what spinach looked like. She confidently said yes.

Fiesta & SeaWorld

What a crazy weekend! Frontier Fiesta with a 4 variety shows (including Alice in Wonderland) on Saturday. The road trip to San Antonio.

We got to SA around 11, and Quinn was still awake! and wanted to jump on the bed at the hotel.

Then we spent most of Sunday at the Bay Of Play in Seaworld. Followed by Kiddie Park and then Magic Time Machine.

What a whirlwind of a weekend.

Beetle juice

Quinn got the 2nd round of blister beetle juice for her molluscum. It looks like it is working, but the blisters also seem irritated so Quinn is complaining about the hurting. I hope she is able to sleep soundly tonight.

Darn Purim nightmares

Quinn had a nightmare about Haman, the bad guy in the Purim story.

It really freaked her out, because normally she goes right back to sleep... But not this time... She was up for a couple of hours.

Daddy hero

Daddy got to save the day when he rushed home to get costumes for Quinn when we forgot it was dress up day at school.

Alexandar and the terrible horrible no good very bad day

Took Quinn to see this show today. She loved it. It is too bad that there were lots of negative messages... Teasing, dentists hurt, hurting peoples feelings..

Lots of teaching points, but it is hard to do in the middle of show.

Mac too flat

Apparently the mac and cheese was too "flat" for human consumption

Thoughtful art project

Quinn made a "book" art project tonight that she then told Pam that she could read it in case she got a headache. Then she ran to leave it next to her bed...

How insiteful

"Facing" frustration

If I can only figure out how to clamly get Quinn to see that grabbing Brock's face is a bad idea and not to to constantly be frustrated and mad at her when she does it.

Signs of Intelligence

The test of a first rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald

Quinn says tonight that one is big and small. Brock is one and he is becoming a big boy, yet he is still small. He is both, or maybe medium.

Guitar Pickin'

This morning, a folk song came on the ipod, Quinn ran to grab her guitar and was playing along with the song. It was great!

Which Outfit

Quinn, most certainly is a girl, as she had gone through 3 outfits this morning before we even left for school

Dinner tantrum

Not sure why, but having a spaghetti pizza (which was quite well received previously) resulted in a hug tantrum... but we came up with a good new dinner policy. You can have fruits and vegetables now, but if you want something else - you have to wait until everyone else is done eating...

Then at least she has to calmly wait while she is starving, or at least eat something healthy.

First haircut

Can't believe that it took 3.5 years to cut quinn's hair.

To young to be a teenager

So when we asked Quinn what all she did at her sleepover, knowing full well that they went to Stomping Grounds, Lupe Tortillia's and played at Adrian's house, all she said was "I don't know"

Sleepover

Quinn just left for her first sleepover with Adrian! Yeah!

Best quote

Quinn, denying that she took a nap in the car, quite confidentally proclaimed "I wasn't sleeping when you woke me up!"

Not feeling well

Quinn complained today that her brain hurt (headache) and she was limping because of her staph infection. :( :(

Staph infection round two

Well looks like Quinn's staph infection on her molluscum came back