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Katherine has been attending Mothers Day Out since January. It took her a little while to adjust to being away from mommy for 5 hours but she does great now. She had been in the youngest room with Ms. Peggy, a sweet grandmother who was so great. One challenge at MDO is getting Katherine to nap. The only way that Ms. Peggy could get her to nap was to rock her for about 20-30 minutes until she fell asleep and then put her in the swing. I could not believe it because we gave our swing back to the friend who let us borrow it about 8 months ago.

Katherine is practicing (not) sleeping on her nap mat.

At the beginning of June she moved up to the Toddler 1 class. In this new class they take naps on NAPMATS! You have got to be kidding! I have a hard time getting Katherine to take a nap in her crib, Ms. Peggy has to rock her and put her in a swing and now she is supposed to sleep on a napmat. I laughed at the suggestion.

So, we went to get a napmat. We practiced at home. She would lay on it all of 2 minutes if I was laying right beside her. So, last week was the test, would she sleep on the napmat? They tell me that they all eventually do.

NOT KATHERINE!

Apparently when they put the mat on the floor she starts screaming. She knows that means she has to take a nap and she is not interested. The first week they pulled the swing in from the baby room and she did take a 45 minute nap. Every other kid fell asleep on their nap mat on the first week. Hmmm, I think I have a stubborn one. This week they pulled in the swing and she took a 10 minute nap and then just talked to herself the rest of the time. The teacher commented that Katherine talks more than any other toddler she has had (she was worked there for over 10 years). She said it sounded like she was speaking another language with all the correct intonations and expressions. Thats my girl!

In the toddler room they do color. Each week her picture has been neatly labeled with her name and put in her bag. Either they only have red crayons or that is Katherine’s favorite color.

I wanted to share my new favorite thing about blogs for my blog community out there. It is surely old new to many of you.

I am technically challenged. I am so glad that my hubby and my brother in law are around to help me out. My friend Amy (La Villa Gringa) also has a husband who is more technical than her. She told me that he set it up so that she could read all of her blogs from one page. I vaguely knew that she was talking about subscribing to their RSS feed but when I had tried it before, I could never figure out where it went. Again, technically challenged. So, my sweet hubby helped me figure out how to set up Google Reader.  

Google reader is so cool. Go to www.google.com/reader to set it up. Literally follow the directions. You add subscriptions to the blogs you read. Then instead of checking all your blogs each day, and then wasting time on the ones that have not been updated, you have all in one place all of the updated blogs. So I open the page and without navigating away can read all of my updates. Sooooo cool and a big time saver for those of us who like to follow a lot of blogs. For some reason some of my friends blogs will not subscribe (Chrys, Kane, Shannon) so I have to remember to go back and look at theirs on my own. Regardless, I thought I would pass the tip on and maybe it would help some of you out as well.