First performance!

Sasha had her first performance at school! It was incredibly cute. Unfortunately, because of privacy issues, I'm not able to upload pictures or videos in which certain other classmates appear. But here is a cropped picture in her performing outfit. She did really well - She sang loudly and did all the hand motions. Her class was representing Lebanon. They learned a song in Arabic, but for some reason only performed it in English. Still, it was really sweet.



Her performance coincided with James' birthday! So, afterwards we went for birthday ice cream!



Choosing which flavor she wanted:



At school the children have been learning to prepare their own snacks. They spread butter on crackers, peel oranges, and chop bananas. I just hope the teachers took off some of this butter before she ate it!



A picture from her birthday walk a couple of weeks ago. Children hold the Earth and walk around a candle (representing the Sun). She walked around the "Sun" three times, while the rest of the class sang a little birthday song about how the Earth goes around the Sun.



She loves cooking in her new kitchen:



Reading her book while she waits for the oven timer to go off:



She loves helping us fold clothes, and she's gotten really good at it:



For a while, after she woke up from her naps, she would ask me if it was time to take a shower and go to school. I realized she was confused about the days.. it seems she thought that after she awoke from her nap it was the next day. So we made a calendar together that shows the main events of each day, with a little paper doll representing Sasha. After each main event, we look at our calendar to see that these are all occurring on the same day, and when it's a new day, she moves the little "sasha doll" onto the next day.
(In case you can't understand my drawings: first is the sun (when she wakes up). Next is her school, then her nap, then dinner, and lastly, the moon represents bedtime! these events are all spread out, of course)



Here she is moving her doll to a new day:



Working with Daddy: