What a Clutz!

I was jogging in the street and fell. I was in the street because there was still ice and snow on the sidewalk. Somehow I rolled my ankle. Don’t know how, since I wasn’t on ice and snow, but I landed on my right knee and left hand. The hand didn’t look as bad, but it hurt WAY more. The knee made for a better picture. That’s what I get for exercising!

Kittens are soooo cute

First day back from vacation. I was doing a little work in the back of Sabrina’s class. The teacher called the kids to the rug to read them a story. Since it was about cats, she first asked the kids who had a cat, then she asked them if they knew anything cats did. The first kid shared that if you handle them too tightly, they’ll scratch you. Then she called on Sabrina. Sabrina shared to her fellow 7 and 8 year old classmates that if their master dies, a cat will eat them. I was mortified. I apologized to the teacher. She took it in stride, told me she’s heard worse and moved on. Though what Sabrina had said was true (I very much regret having opened my big mouth to give her that fun fact), I still can’t believe that after 1½ weeks of playing with grandpa’s kitten, she chose to share THAT.

A Picture Says A Thousand Words

Sabrina’s “pet” mealworm in school. This is the first day they let them crawl on their fingers. She said it tickled. I think she looks like she's about to cry.

Overscheduled?

I went ahead and let Emily over schedule herself this year:
Mondays she does GATE after school (Odyssey of the Mind).
Wednesdays she does the student store and saxophone at school.
Twice a month she does an activity day after school.
Thursdays she does saxophone at school and drama after school.
Fridays she does an hour piano lesson after school.
She still has to do homework and practice her piano and sax every day.
This is her last week of drama, but she's just starting up in a brass/woodwind band that will be 2 Thursday evenings a month and starting the ski team in January. She’s also keeping straight A’s so far. I keep waiting for her to crack, but
so far so good. . .

First Day of School

Sabrina on the first day of school. We haven't taken 1st day of school pictures for a long time. I have them for Kindergarten for each of the girls. I told them to set out clothes the night before, but I didn't check them. Didn't even pay any attention to it - until we got to school. I had to take a picture to document Sabrina's sense of style

Sparkle Blue Shoes

We did school shopping in Utah this year. Sabrina and Emily picked Converse-type shoes out at Old Navy. The cousins like the shoes so much that Sabrina asked her dad how much the shoes were and how much she makes washing cars. She figured out that she could wash 6 cars to earn the money to buy her cousins the shoes. She was willing to spend the last day of vacation washing so she could buy them. Very sweet and thoughtful. Once we got home she quickly forgot about the idea in favor of earning money for a hippity hop ball instead.

Kids Say the Darndest Things

We went to Tracy to go to Dylan Hendricks' baptism. Sabrina came up with a couple of funny ones. Friday night, about 9pm, we were all still outside, but going to go on a walk. Sabrina walked up to her Daddy and asked, "Can you turn on the lights please?" Then she took a moment to look up to the sky and mumbled, "Oh. Never mind, it's nighttime." Appearantly, she thought Daddy could turn on the sun again.

Saturday, after the baptism was over, she wanted to tell me something in my ear. I bent down and she whispered to me, "My butt is sweaty." Hopefully, the people who were behind us in the aisle waiting for us to get out of their way didnt' hear her. To her credit, though, at 6pm, when we left to drive the long way home, it was still 107 degrees. I don't remember what temperature it was at 2pm, but we were all stitting on metal chairs. Everything gets a little sticky and sweaty on metal chairs in that kind of heat.