She is a very outgoing and friendly little girl. When she is at dance class she always talks to all of the girls and their moms. She enjoys "performing" for everyone her recital is in May and I think she is really excited. I don't know if she will continue dance next year or not as she has some other things she also wants to do and I am not sure how many activities we will let her do at one time. You see so far she has asked if she can do tennis, soccer, music lessons and dance. Plus she should start preschool next year.
Now preschool is a whole other subject! I never went to preschool and did just fine in school. My dad is certain she does not need to be going to preschool. According to the schools she should have two years of preschool before starting kindergarten. I am on the fence on this subject for a couple of reasons. She will not be able to start kindergarten until she is six and part of me wants to have her home schooled the first year and then see if she can start in first grade at six instead of kindergarten. Then again I hear several people who say they think the extra year was good for their child. Anyway back to preschool. I listen to the things that friends say their child is learning in preschool and a lot of them are things Kassi already knows and has excelled in. I am afraid she is going to get bored in preschool! See she already knows how to spell several words, she can read some things, she can almost count to 100, she can count in tens, she can do simple addition and subtraction, and she is starting to get writing her name down. So I wonder will her mind get bored doing things she has been doing for sometime? Then again I think the interaction with others would be good for her. As I said she is very outgoing and social and doesn't get much of a chance to be around other children her age.
Kassi has been stuck on the idea that we need a baby. She really thinks she needs a baby brother or sister. The other day we talked about this for our entire grocery shopping trip. It doesn't matter what kind of response I give she is able to think it over and come up with a way around it. Lately her argument has been that there are lots of babies at hospitals that need families who would love them and take care of them so why don't we just tell the hospital that we could be their family and bring them home. While she knows about her birth mother she still does not really understand the whole adoption process. So she thinks we just went to the hospital and they let us bring her home because they knew we would love her and give her a wonderful family.
Another sign she is growing up...she has a real four wheeler now. When we brought it home it wouldn't start and had engine problems. Well after a couple of hours this weekend Wes got it fixed and it starts and runs like a charm. Kassi already knows how to start it which is really scary, what the throttle is and all the levers do. Wes takes her out and rides it with her for now. Him and I are agreeing that she needs to be a few years older before she gets to ride it on her own. At least she is really good about wearing her helmet and it has an adjustable throttle.
