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.

Choices

Sabrina informed me that she didn't want to get baptized when she turns 8 - because then she'll have to listen in church (4/25/10). She said that she knew she'd have to, though. I told her she didn't and that it's a choice she needs to make. So, the next day in FHE I did a lesson about choices. I talked about the why and consequences for our choices. I figured I have a while to discuss this whole thing with her. The next Saturday (5/1/10), I told her she needed to go through her money and figure out tithing. She told me she didn't want to pay tithing, she wanted to keep all her money, and that she knew it was her choice. After talking about the why for tithing and the blessings involved, she said fine. I figured it was just to get me out of her hair. However, the next day, she told Brian she needed to pay her tithing and she brought it down herself. During Easter break, she worked for Grandpa White and earned a few bucks. When we went to pay tithing, she said she wanted to give it all to the church to build more temples. I guess it's her mood on the day you ask her as to what she'll say.

Willy Wonka

Yes, the girls were all in Willy Wonka. An adaptation by Disney for kids. And, of course, a musical. Tailor played Veruka Salt. She was perfect for the part, especially with her 12 year old self. Emily was Charlie Bucket's mother and an Oompa Loompa. Sabrina was a candy kid and a squirrel. Instead of the goose that laid the chocolate egg, there were squirrels and their acorns for Veruka to be mean to. After the Saturday performance, we had a cast party at our house while the other adults took down the set and cleaned up. About 30+ kids. It was a lot of fun. Good thing we have the perfect front yard (the courthouse back yard).