Lots of Learning

First, an update on the toy post from last time.
The next day Ali remembered her airplane minutes after waking up and was so happy to have it back. And . . . the best part is, the lesson seemed to work. Now our pick up your toys conversations go like this:
Me: Ali, it's time to pick up your toys.
Ali sometimes still ignores me but then I follow with: Remember Ali, any toys you pick up you get to keep.
Ali: And the toys mommy picks up she gets to keep. I want my toys.
Then Ali runs and picks them up.

I am also so impressed with how much she has already progressed at preschool. Most days Grace (our wonderful nanny) drops Ali off at preschool so I haven't seen her morning routine at preschool much but it is as follows. The kids arrive and are expected to put their bag on a shelf, get their slippers off another shelf, take their shoes off and put them away on the shelf and put their slippers on. I got to drop Ali off this morning and while she still needed the reminder from the teacher to take her shoes off she did all the rest by herself without additional prompting.
- shoes off, socks in shoes
- slippers off shelf
- shoes put on shelf
- slippers put on

This morning when she got her slippers on she said "teacher I got them on myself."