Even more tantrums.....

Thank goodness for my mommy friends who have 5 year old daughters or I'd be going insane. After a bit of a break from tantrums, they are back in full force lately. The past 2 nights have been whoppers and over NOTHING!!! I suppose it's just Anya asserting her independence and testing her boundaries (she usually concludes the tantrum with "I don't like your rules" or something to that effect), but it's enough already! Baz's little mini-tantrums have nothing on Anya's.....I'll happily take the "terrible two's" over the f-ing fives!

When she's not tantruming, Anya is a delight, however.....she's still into "wolfland" in the evenings. I'm still not sure where or why this started, but she likes to dress up and act like a wolf and she playacts wolf school and wolf house, etc. Baz happily joins in and when we're not managing tantrums, we're a happy wolf family!

We're starting to really progress on the reading front, although when we push harder, the tantrums start. She's good at recognizing her "star words" and tries to guess words using context a lot. However, she can sound out words and is starting to do that more.