Ella-TON John

We had parent teacher conferences with the girls last night and I must admit...I was a little worried. Sofia is a very studious kid and really does enjoy school. In Kindergarten when Mrs. Merrill sent home her homework packet for the week (which they were supposed to do one page a day) Sofia would cruise through the entire thing and have a weeks worth of homework done on Monday- the same day she got it. hehe.

 

She has told me numerous times that First grade is alot harder...yes, yes it is hun. But according to her teachers, she is doing really, really well. She is reading at a MUCH higher level than she should be and just as a few things that she can improve on. YAY! We met with both her home room and her Spanish immersion  teacher and I could have HUGGED Senora Santos when she told Sofia that she had to keep up on ALL her languages- including Russian. So we tested her on the spot and had her count to twenty in English, Spanish and Russian. It was awesome! I love to see her mind work as she seperates all the many languages that she has romaing around in her brain! We were pretty proud parents.

 

Ella had her meeting next and Mrs. Merrill gave us the BEST compliment we could have had as parents. She told us Ella is like sugar to her. She makes her day SO much sweeter. Ella is the sweetest girl, always looking for the kids who dont have someone to play with and she asks them to play. She looks to help and is genuinely just sweet. Cute girl. She still is a bit spacey and can lose focus from time to time, but that is what makes her our ELLA! She is doing REALLY well in school and as we were looking at her writing journal, she had an entry that had a picture with "My Mommy has a baby in her tummy..." Hmmm. Well we had to tell Mrs. Merrill that no, we did not. But we want to!! It made me tear up that she had put that in her writing journal...So cute. Then Mrs. Merrill told us that we had such good genes, we needed to make more little Martushevs! Loved it!

 

I wore my glasses to the conferences and the minute we got home Ella donned these. She looked SO much like Elton John to me. It was hilarious. She wouldnt take them off till bedtime and then this morning- they were back on!