The Ussery Update

Parker Holt, you are FOUR years old!  You went from this newborn babe in the hospital... To this one year old... To this two year old... To this three year old... To this four year old... Oh Parker, my heart can't take it.  Where has the time gone?  I still remember the day you were born so very clearly.  It was such a wonderful day!  And now you are four years old - wow. I often look back at your baby pictures and miss those precious times and how little you were. As hard as some of the early days were, there's nothing like a sweet little baby.  All of that being said, I love the age you are now too.  We have had so much fun over the past year. From baby days to toddler days and all the days in between you have remained the sweetest boy! As I did before you were born, and have every year on your birthday, I am writing you a personal, special letter so I'll try not to ramble on here. Notice I said "try". (Side note: I wrot...

Back in August, we started a new adventure, a homeschool preschool curriculum.   The curriculum we are doing is "Letter of the Week" (except we are doing a letter every two weeks).  It’s a year-long program full of a variety of educational activities based on each letter of the alphabet.   We should finish up at the end of the summer.   The lessons involve letter and number recognition, counting, basic math and spelling, pre-writing practice, sorting, graphing, fine-motor skills, crafting, games, and more.   It’s been a really great experience so far. Parker is really enjoying it and learned so much. Per the recommendation of the curriculum, we covered the five vowels first and then started back at the Letter B.  Once Parker knew all of the vowels, it would help us better with word building and recognition.  We started on Monday, August 31st - Parker was 3 1/2 years old on his first day of homeschool preschool. Here are LOTS of pictures of...