Jazlynn

i just wanted to give some updates on the kids since i know some of my family who doesn't live in Az. now read my blogs. so i thought it would be nice to share some things that they have done and learned. so this post will be about jazzy and then ill do one on Jayvin and Ridge later. concores

Jazlynn Aliece Brauer-Woodworth

Jazzy Is so sweet and such a cuddler. over the last 3 years she has gone back and forth from being a Mommy's girl to daddy's girl and at the moment is back to being a Mommy's girl. she is now three and we feel blessed to have skipped the terrible twos and threes. she has gotten a little antsy the last few months from my lack of being able to be a active and tolerant as i used to be but trust me as soon as this baby is out we'll get back to the swing of things. now that she is three she knows her shapes and how many angles and sides they have ...well she know what a Pentagon, octagon, triangle, square, rectangle, circle, heart and star are...oh and an oval. so maybe not ALL the shapes but a fair amount. she knows her colors, the main colors anyways =). she is REALLY into letters and numbers. she loves to write her alphabet and even though some end up backwards, overall she does a great job. she can do easy addition with her fingers but we haven't even tried to tackle subtraction though. she loves to be read to and can actually read approx 40 words herself. she gets smarter and smarter every day and i love to see how much she thinks learning is fun. i never push them but i do challenge them however we never challenge them to failure. she is so loving to. she is the one who corners her brothers and gives them kisses (reminds me of what i used to do to my cousin. poor Luke I'm so sorry lol). she is the little mommy of the house. she is always looking after her brothers and always wanting to help me around the house. she does have her own chores though but to her i think she thinks of them as games. she has 3 chores, she makes her bed every morning, unloads her plastic dishes and silverware and puts them away and she loads her own dishes and silverware to the dishwasher. obviously she cleans up hers toys and what not but that's not a chore that's just something she needs to do. we pay them for their chores to. she gets 25cents for each chore she does. so 75cents total but its not all for spending. one quarter goes in a spend pouch, one quarter in the save pouch and the last quarter in the give pouch. the spend pouch they can spend on whatever they want and we usually take them to the dollar section in the stores. the save ...that's common sense and the give is for them to give to there Sunday teacher, or money collector at the grocery stores and what not. well that's kinda of where we are with jazzy. were not around other kids so i don't know whats normal or not but i do know that i love her and she makes us so proud!!!