Lessons in Motherhood

Can I put my Mommy bragging hat on for one second? Ok. Don’t mind if I do. Hailey and Sophia have awesome vocabularies. It’s true. Hailey comes out with some SAT words every once and a while; when she uses them right, I can almost see the scholarship money coming right off of her college savings bottom line.

Now, here’s the big but…that’s but, not butt. Don’t get confused. But…Hailey has no sense of time. She uses lengths of time and words associated with time in completely inappropriate ways constantly. It’s hysterical. She often says things like…

Everyday on Tuesdays at school we go to gym somedays.

I am so tired because I was outside for 20 hours today.

Sometimes everyday my friends don’t wear their coats outside.

Huh? It can be hard sometimes to even understand what she’s trying to say because she gets the words all garbled up. She can’t tell time yet either, but she can read (kinda). She’s actually getting pretty good with the reading. The writing is ok, but the spelling is atrocious. Eh. It’s only kindergarten.