TwiceToddlers and the Charter School

Since my twins were infants, I had asked this charter school down the street from me when I could send in my application. It was not until this February that I was able to send in my twins application for admission.

Well, this month, on March 17th, both my hubby, myself and my twins went down to the school and with a class full of parents, waited to hear our names drawn from this basket. Well, you would think that with both my twins trying to get into this school at least one would be accepted. I mean, we had a two out of one shot of being accepted, but no, with this lottery system, not even ONE of my twins names was drawn.

It made me sick to my stomach. I wanted to cry, I was so livid. I mean, now I will have to register my twins at this elementary school my husband went to in kindergarten.

A week later, if I am not mistaken, we received a letter from this charter school showing our twins both at 21 our of 30 in the waiting list. Well, how sweet is that. I wonder if my twins will ever get in now. Honestly, how on earth did we get to 21 out of 30 on the waiting list?

Before we drove to this school, my hubby asked if we wanted to pray. I just said, "Thy Will be done Lord" and I guess this was His Will. He knows more than I do about this school and what is best for my twins at this time. Needless to say, I am still livid, but am willing to live with what the Lord has in store for my twins education, even in kindergarten in the Fall of 2010.

TwiceToddlers Learning to Spell Their Name

Ever since my twins began preschool last August, they have started learning to spell their names. Well, this week, my twins are now learning to not only spell their first names, but their last names too.

Since last week though, Twin "A" has not been wanting to write her name the right way. She sees how Mommy or Daddy are writing her name, and we even put our hand over her hand, right hand, to show her how her name should feel we are writing her name with her. Anyway, she does not seem to understand how the first letter of her name needs to begin at an angle, and end at a point, at the top. For a while, she had been making the first letter rounded, but now, Mommy and Daddy are showing her the correct way to write the first letter of her name.

Twin "A" is not doing it correctly. I wonder, if she too could be left handed. But, what are the odds of my twins both being left-handed? Also, I know, she is only in preschool, but this is the best time to she her how to write her name, before she enters kindergarten next August.

Twin "B", on the other hand, is writing her name much better now that she is writing more with her left hand, and not right hand. Mommy, on the other hand is having a not so easy time helping her write, since I am right handed.

So, it looks like Mommy and Daddy will just have to continue working with Twin "A" until she begins to understand that her first letter, in her first name, needs to be pointy, not rounded.