WHAT S CAN DO AT 4 YRS OLD (4 YRS OLD)

- Go to the potty by herself (although she complains she's lonely)
- Wash her hands by herself
- Get her own glass of water with a help of a step stool
- Get dressed by herself: undies, shirt, socks, pants/shorts, dresses, and shoes
- Feed herself with silverware, eventhough she often uses her fingers
- Unbuckles and buckles up her seat belt (in the convertibles and booster)
- Dresses and undresses her baby dolls
- Can brush and floss her teeth (even though she insists she needs help)
- Can help mix and measure ingrediants for cooking
- Clean up after herself (with prompting)
- Help momma around the house

At the 4 yr wellness check, S was 75% in weight (39 lbs) and 80% in height (41.5 inches)(or was it the other way around).

FROG SWIM CLASSES (4 YRS OLD)

S just completed her "frog" level swim class. The emphasis at this level was swimming with your head in the water and learning to do "big" arm strokes. Despite missing almost a week of class, Miss Megan recommended that S move onto Guppy level. Momma attributes most of S success to her existing comfort level in the water.

P.S. All the swim classes has been up north near the swimming pool by daddy's work so he can takeover swim classes while momma does her thing.

EXCUSES, LAZINESS, & PROCASTINATION (4 YRS OLD)

Momma is surprised by S's frequent response of, "I don't know how" or "It's boring" when she doesn't want to do something. This morning, S didn't want to brush her teeth so she asked momma to do it for because she didn't know how. That's funny because S brushed her teeth fine by herself the night before.

A couple of weeks ago, momma asked S to pick up a napkin that fell off her lap. S responded with, "I don't know how" which caused momma to laugh. When S agreed to put away the silverware to earn some money, half way through she stopped and walked away saying, "it's boring." She even told the teachers at Starbright that she didn't know how to spell and write her name which she has been doing since she was three-ish.

Momma's not sure what to make of all of this. She misses the enthusiastic help that S use to provide. Momma guesses this is "norm" until S moves out and figures out the only person to put away her things will be her. And of course, the solution is to not let S get away with this!

SICK (4 YRS OLD)

After her 4 Yr old checkout last Tuesday, S has come down with a 100 degree fever that

MONEY (4 YRS OLD)

S seems to like the idea of getting paid for doing chores. Last week, she helped with the laudry (loading the machine, putting in the detergent and turning it on) as well as putting away the silverware. She loves counting her money but doesn't quite understand that each coin has a certain denomination. Despite this, she's a hoarder. She doesn't understand the denomination but does understand that money has value. Last time, when she collected up to $9, she went and bought herself "magic sand" from Toys R Us.

In relationship to money, last week, she came up to momma and said, "You're a good momma. Let me pay you." Momma responded that she didn't need to pay her because, "daddy's is generous with me." S came up, asked momma to put her hand out and then proceeded to put pretend money into her palm.

STICKER CHART (4 YRS OLD)

Today, while helping momma make her cup of coffee, S ask if it was possible to make a sticker chart. She proposed that she would get a sticker for every time she helped momma. Momma asked if that was all she wanted. S responded with, "yes, stickers." Then momma asked, "how about money?" S quickly agreed with money.

Momma has been thinking about paying her for chores and having an allowance so this falls right inline it. But, Momma wondered where did she get this idea from?