Is my child normal?

I was thinking last night - Is Bella really normal? So yes- we have imaginary friends. I know this is normal because my sister had them. However, Bella takes them to a whole new level. Let's take for example, Ella (her pretend older sister). Two weeks ago, Ella got married in Hawaii. Currently, she is living with us with her husband. He is sleeping on the couch. Ella is sleeping with Bill and I and Bella has the rest of the pretend friends sleeping in her room, stuck to the wall. I have now found out Ella is preganant with twins.

I get that she has them to replace siblings. We are working on it. Nothing like pressure from a four year old. This has also become greater since Bella knows my two closest friends are expecting. But the names- ok Ella normal. We however have Arthur and Tarantralla (yes a spider name) and our pretend dog Pooba.

I love that Bella is so creative. I hope this will be a good thing when she has to do creative writing at school. Ok I guess she is normal but I wonder- where does she get this stuff.

Flat Stanley

I know my family thinks I am nuts but Izabella really does like to do projects. One that I did when I taught Kindergarten was Flat Stanley. I read the book to Izabella and explained about the Flat Stanley Project. We talked about how we are going to do this. So we decide to start with out of state people. I think it will work well because not only do we have family out of state but Daddy travels. So here are the states we have



New jersey- many

washington DC

Arizona

Florida

Washington

Indiana

Missouri





I am going to email a few others. We will keep you up to date



Lisa

Winter fun

Day 8 of Hannukkah

Model pose at a Michigan Pumpkin farm

Bella and her Halloween candy

Bella Sledding

Bill and Bella Christmas morning

Happy New Year

I can not believe it has been so long since I have written. One of my resolutions is to blog more often. Where to begin? Well to start off lets get the bad news out of the way. On October 29th, Bill's mother passed away. As many of you know, she fell in June and quickly went down hill. For Bill, even though he grieves the loss of his mother- he is happy she is not suffering anymore. This brought Bill's family into town. For Bella, it was great to see aunt, uncles and cousins. She asked many questions but seems to understand.

On a happier note, my family is well. My sister and Antony will be returning from England in a week. 5 months went really fast but we will be happy to have them back closer to home. My folks are doing well.

Izabella is loving school. I am so glad I choose this school. She has learned so much. She has begun to read and is so excited. They have programs monthly for the parents. Bella really loves her homework. She also is going to lunch bunch, which is when she eats at school twice a week. Also she has been going to school all day on Fridays. I can not believe in the next couple of weeks, we will be signing up for Kindergarten. Where did 5 years go?

Izabella also is continuing to go to tap and ballet. She loves to dance and wants to add more class. She would like to also do cheerleading but I told her either another dance class or cheerleading. We will see in the Fall. Izabella is very much a girly girl but can definately hold her own with the boys.

The holidays were wonderful here. This is the first year, she has been born the holidays have been been at different times. During Hannukah, she was really into asking everyone if they were Jewish or not. Of course, she got way to many gifts. We also got to spend our annual New Years with Auntie Melissa, Uncle Aaron, Abby and Jack. We have done this since Bella and Abby were babiess. Next Year we will be adding another to the group. Auntie Melissa is expecting and we can't wait to meet Taylor in late March. Speaking of babies, it must be in if your last name is Johnson to be expecting. Our friends, Debbie and Mike are expecting baby number 4. Yes you read that right 4. We are so excited for both of them and mommy has already begun shopping. As for us, no news yet but we will keep everyone up to date.


Overall, things are good here. Check back regularly for updates. I hope to get some pictures up soon.

Isn't it suppose to get quiet when school starts

We are now halfway though September, school and activities are in full swing. I know my family laughs at me with all the activities Bella is in but she really likes to be busy. So here is our schedule.

Monday-
Storytime and Enrichment

Tuesday- Fall Detectives and school

Wednesday- School

Thursday- Ballet/tap and school

Friday School

Fall detectives are only 3 weeks. We hope to add gymnastics on Mondays. In the next few days I hope to post our new at home school stuff as well as update pictures.

Fall is always full of great things. Halloween plans are in swing. Bella wants to either be a ballerina or Pinkalious. She changes daily. I found a costume of popcorn but she does not like it.

This weekend, we are super busy. Saturday, we will be participating in our friend, Ally's walk for MDA at the zoo. We do it every year and we have a great time. Saturday night, we are going to our first Got Shabbat? of the year! Sunday is our big Heart Walk. We have about 15 or so friends joining us. It should be fun. I hope all is well with everyone.

School has started

The summer has ended and Bella has begun her final year of preschool. She is going to Lions Park preschool four afternoons a week. As when I was a child, I wanted the first day of school to be a big deal. We started with a special first day of school, treat bag. I put some fun back to school stuff in it like pencils. books, and stickers, along with kisses. I made Bill and Bella a special back to school breakfast of all of Bella's favorites. Bella really seemed to enjoy to school. I feel we made a great decision. Here are some pictures!

Been so busy

I can not believe the summer is quickly ending. Izabella is starting Junior Kindergarten next Tuesday. I can not believe it, where did the time go. The school she is in is awesome. Such a great fit. She will be going 4 afternoons. Her teachers seem to have it together and have many things going on. They seem to understand kids this age and what is a age appropiate. They have a program every month. They have a day for moms, dads, grandparents, art show, thanksgiving, holidays as well as 4 field trips. Bella is so excited.

It is so hard to believe that next year she will be in Kindergarten. I swear I only blinked. Come back next week to look at school pictures!