Happy Birthday Elli Bug!

Can't believe almost 1 year has passed since the last post!  So many developmental milestones have come and gone that I have barely been able to keep up with our now 5 year old!  Elli began Pre-K in August.  We have made the hard and difficult choice to home-school our little social "ladybug".  Due to the nature of her rather extrovertish characteristics however, we did enroll her in a home-school community that meets one day a week to help satisfy this need, as well as several other academic desires. Classical Conversations, as it is called, follows a classical model of educational curriculum of the same name.  We have been working on math skills and mainly reading at home. Elli officially became a rather fluent reader when she was still four.  I am still amazed at how this happened!  Where was I?!!!  We continue to watch our daughter thrive in the world around her as the intense observations and questions abound.  This is where I begin to question my own knowledge as well, and realize how much a child can teach us things we never knew, or remind us of things we have long forgotten. 

Today we celebrate five years of her exuberant life in true Elli Bug fashion!  We are undoubtedly bewildered, as this little 28 lb., 38 inch tall child of God continues to grow and consume our daily lives!

The Elli Bug Party!