JoJo is adorable.
She is also very determined and can be demanding. It is hard to fathom being pushed around by someone with a voice that sounds like Elmo, but it can happen, believe me!
Jo goes to preschool 2x/ week. She has an adorable group of preschool friends and moms who teach. We are so blessed to have such a great group. It is her favorite part of life. Every day she says, "mom, how many more days until preschool?" she is always bummed on Friday when it is 4 more days until preschool day. She loves bringing something to share that correlates with the letter of the week. Her preschool class is Reef Meacham (mom Hillary), Jenna Wilde (Heidi), Zoe Law (suzanne), Eve Sabin (amy), Afton Simpson (Melany).
Jo is loving her dance class in Fridays. Some days she says she doesn't want to go, but then when she thinks about it, she decides she does want to go because she loves dance. She is also expressing interest in trying other sports next year so it will be fun to see what she grows to love most.
Jo has known all her letters for a while now. She can write most of them and knows all the sounds. I thought maybe she would be interested in learning to read since she seems pretty ready. She loves looking at books and sometimes says she wants to read them, not just look at them!! So, we've started the book Teach your child to read in 100 easy lesson. She is loving it. She does great. If we keep up she will be reading by May 1st. That will be fun for her.
Jo spends a lot of her non-school time doing my chores with me. We love our morning walks with Meyer and our friends - Gabby and Zach (Meadows) and Holli (Ewell) and dog Teddy. We go to lots of school meetings, dr. appointments, grocery shopping, etc. and Jo is almost always a great buddy. When she's not on errands she likes to ride her bike, play at the park and go to the beach. At home she likes play doh, legos, coloring, writing letters and notes to people, playing on the tablet, watching movies. Lately her favorite is sound of music. We've watched the first half of it 6 times in the last few weeks. It is a favorite of mine as well.
Jo wears footy jammies most of the time. If she needs to go out she will put on tennis shoes over the feet of her jammies.
Jo likes to say funny things like, "Mom, I am so hungry. If you hadn't made such a yucky dinner I would have eaten it." "I was awake all night and didn't sleep at all."
Jo is a delight. I am half heart broken that she is going to K next year and won't be home with me all time, yet I am super happy for her. She is very excited to learn more and be growing up like her sisters.
Speaking of sisters, probably Jo's most favorite thing of all is being with her sisters. She plays whatever they are playing and likes whatever they like. She and Lexey are especially good buddies. At night they read each other books, play made up games, giggle, laugh and have a great time! Jo will not go to bed without lexey. She will cry her eyeballs out if we tell them we are going to separate them if, for example, they are being too rowdy.
We have a lot of dirt in our front yard right now, and a bunch that came down into the front of the driveway with the recent rain/muslides! Jo loves to play in that dirt. She is adorable.
We love to go feed the ducks at Lake Poway.
In her footie PJ's (without the top button done)
Helping me make lemon bars
playing memory with daddy
Showing how she can read words. When we have "sharing a talent" time during FHE each week she demonstrates how she can read.
Playing a game with the girls
Playing in the dirt
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