Syona at School

Syona has been doing really well in school lately. She still has her moments when she is dropped off and picked up, just a pick me up kind of ask, but we watch her on the video all day and she seems to be partcipating and doing well. We have our first parent teacher conference in November so I am very excited for what the teachers have to tell us! When I pick her up from school, she helps me gather up her used bibs, sippy cups and hello kitty lunch bag. In the car on the way home, I try to always bring her a snack and while she eats she asks for music (!) music (!) and then recites all her friends in class Arnap (Arnav), Reeeya (Riya), Andwew (Andrew), Raygan (Reagan), Marco and then goes through her teachers, Miss Claudia, Miss Vieta (Violeta), and her new teacher Miss Mim (Kim). She says everyone's name with a super big smile so I feel good knowing she enjoys the people she is with all day. She made an apple one day in art class and if you ask her what she made in school she always says "Apple!" even though she has made lions, numbers, elephants, leaves, etc.

Sticker in my Ear

Syona has learned new ways to express herself. She loves stickers these days, and this is one of the ways to reward her now- though sometimes she does a pretty good job just asking for it non-stop and you give it to her anyways. She can spend endless amount of time sticking these hearts, stars, DelMonte banana, Gala apple, wedding circles, etc all over her hands, arms, legs, ears, my foot...The last couple of days, she seems to believe that she left a sticker in her ear and keeps asking us to check there. When I do, I just blow in her ear and that gets her giggling. She is a great fun these days and go through phases of really loving/caring for me. Like today, before I could pick up a phone call, she asked, "dada, where are you". Maybe it's because I've been bribing her to sit on the potty with different types of treats- like gummy bears, lollipop, an other mints... The crazy thing is that she knows how to see each kind of these treats and will gladly wait on the potty for a long time while I go retrieve the treat. Unfortunately, I haven't gotten her to actually sit there long enough to go in the potty itself. I'm saving a ice cream bar as the main reward when she does eventually go.