Hanging with Rea-rea

Even though I miss Katya when she is at school, I have been LOVING my Reagan time. We are having so much fun together through out the day, and without a big sister to disagree with, there is very little drama. She is a three year old, but such an agreeable little thing. Craig and I admit that thus far she is our easiest kid. But one thing that I have really been struggling with is what to do about preschool for her next year.

I originally thought Reagan would follow K's path to Holy Redeemer's Pre-K program before starting kindergarten at Holy Cross the following year. But HR changed their morning pre-K from 3 days a week to 5. I have really gone back and forth but I just can't seem to settle on 5 days a week being okay. It is just not what we want. I have looked into other preschools but there is nothing that fits my list. So we are considering leaving her out all together. There is a lot of research in support of preschool, yet the studies are all of at-risk, low income (often single parent) kids which doesn't reflect our family at all. So the research is not helpful. Part of my concern of not enrolling her is that kindergarten will be full time and is pretty hard core. Ms. Baird is the first to admit that it is what 1st grade use to be. But being the second child, Reagan is doing so much more at this age than Katya did. She is starting to trace letters, and cut with scissors and all those things because Katya is. And another helpful thing is that she is really comfortable with Holy Cross, the kindergarten classroom and Ms Baird because of Katya being there.   I plan on doing some structured play for a few hours a few days a week starting next fall (at home). And I am talking with another parent in K's class who has a daughter Reagan's age about doing something like that with her. She is also leaning towards no preschool and that girl will be in R's class:-)

Some cute pictures of our silly girl (that tongue kills me) wearing one of her sister's uniform dresses.