Five years ago on August 29th, 2005, Hurricane Katrina slammed into New Orleans.
Four days later, my little Stephanie made her appearance. She was delivered by the nurse since she refused to wait 3 minutes for the doctor to get there.
She was my tiniest baby ~ weighing in at 6 pounds, 5 ounces.
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Today she is 5 years old. She is 3 foot 9 inches tall and weighs 48 pounds.
She's already been in school for a couple of weeks. And it's taking some getting used to! It's hard work sitting in a classroom all day and having to learn and pay attention. When she gets home, she's usually a little tired and very - emotional, I guess I would say. Everybody "be's mean" to her when we first get home. I probably need to spend a little quality time with her when we first get home but normally I'm downstairs working then. Poor little GooGoo.
Other than that, she loves school. She loves having friends that she gets to see every day. And she loves her teacher too. The other day she counted to 39 for me without any help. (Then I just had to help with the transitioning to the next step, i.e. 40, 50.) Before she started school, she would always skip either 14 or 16, but she's been practicing! She's still having trouble remembering how to spell her name but she does have 9 letters so that doesn't make it easy.
She loves to play games on the computer. Mostly WebKinz or Wizard 101.
Duck Blankie is still around. He is needed always at night and sometimes during the day too. Luv Frog is another lovie that goes hand-in-hand with duck blankie.
She's a sweet little thing and probably too smart for her own good ~ definitely too smart for her parents' good!
