Product Review and more

So, Ada LOVES to learn.... but she's going to be another two years for kindergarten because she's going to miss the deadline.  Not the end of the world but she's bored.  We did a Joy school which she loved, and then the new baby came and I really didn't want to sign up for something until I got a schedule down.  But we signed up for an online preschool.  It's AMAZING!  We've done the free ones before like starfall.com... which my kids still love, but it's mostly reading and math.  But the one that we're doing now is www.abcmouse.com .  And it's pretty cheap too.  $100 for 2 years for up to 3 kids.  Since we only have 2 kids it's about $50/year/kid... Which is about $4 dollars a month per child.  You pay more than that to go to the aquarium, etc... Both my kids love it.  Ada's been learning letter recognition and math better and "reading" books.  Sammy has been matching shapes and colors.  It's my favorite one so far because it has tons of different activities and lots of subjects.  It has math, reading, art, music, science, and geography.  It also has a reading path that your kid can follow.  If you don't want them to do the lessons then they can just play the games.  Ada does the lessons (she asks if she can do her lessons) and Sammy mostly does puzzles and games but will occasionally do a lesson as well.  They get points and can buy things at the virtual store for their virtual room... at this point has mostly pets and Sammy has bought multiple beds.  The have 6 years worth of lessons.  I think it will take Sammy a good few years to go through all the lessons, but he is starting at two and already knows how to find his way around the website and knows where his favorites are.  Ada gets so excited about the lessons that she's halfway through a year in about 2 months.  It will probably slow down soon, but I'm glad that they're enjoying it.  At first I needed to help them, but now I just set them on the computer and they do it all themselves. 

On a side note, every time Sam sees a letter S anywhere he says, "Mom!  A-M 'SAM'!" 

And Ada has been telling me "time".  She says things like, "Mom, it's 59 o'clock on the hour." or "It's 52 seconds o'clock."  Maybe I should actually teach her, but it's just too cute.