The state of attachment

Overall, things are going really well.  PB is spending more time out with the family.  She's reaching out to KC by trying to teach him Chinese.  He's enjoying the kidding with her, but then there are times she wants to do it when he's just exhausted.  She's doing better about sleeping until a semi-normal time (contrary to Jelly who wakes up before the sun!), but if she hears us at all, she will get up.  She does not like to go to bed early, but KC & I do b/c KC works early and Jelly wakes up so cotton pickin' early.  Besides, we need some time for each other.  I've told her this week that we are heading to bed around 8:30ish and if she is not tired, then she can read before she goes to sleep.  That has seemed to work, and she doesn't make quite the groan as she used to.

We've been working on English and math.  Considering she's only been with us about 6 weeks, she does pretty good with English.  Since I am not a teacher (well, not for kids anyways!), I'm kind of flying by the seat of my pants.  I have a phonics/writing book that I got for Jelly a LONG time ago.  I sort of forgot I had it, and in many ways she's past it, so I pulled it out for PB.  We don't use the book as it is intended, but use it as an opportunity to spell the word for each picture as well as color, etc.  Its providing us lots of great opportunities to help her pronounce the words/letters, etc.  She really likes to work.  I also found a great website for working on math.  You can find it HERE.  You can play math games, print worksheets, complete quizzes online, etc.  Great website!

At the recommendation of the play therapist, I've gotten several family fun activities to try.  Some of them require way too many materials, but there are several that are just plain fun/good.  I'm still going through them and hope to have some we can try in the next few days while we're at home as well as this weekend to do as a family.  KC went back to work this week...and has had to work late every night this week (except Friday).  Not exactly an ideal way to "transition" into him going back to work (for any of us!).  Oh well.  Can't do much about it.