PomPoms

We made pompoms!







We attempted to make a garland, but never quite finished. But the making of the pompoms was really quite fun. Q5 made a wreathy type thing, and C7 just made pompoms.

Santa talk

We had some chats about how Santa can see everything we do.

If you have to wear a crown

If you have to wear a crown, you should go for a teeny tiny crown.





Notice ... it is taped on.

Many ways to read

Seriously, she's reading a lot.

I love these pictures.

Q5 is reading things like The Magic Treehouse series, and attempting to read Choose Your Own Adventure books, with limited success, I might add, because, as a sight reader, words she doesn't know, she just doesn't know! Which has made reading the Choose Your Own Adventure books fun, but difficult. Some difficult words last night: civilization, Mayan, ancient, Yucatan.

I think what Q5 is reading in this photo is a Dorrie book by Patricia Coombs. We have two old library copies, and I'm thrilled that she's reading them. I remember going downstairs in the Lunenburg Library and reading all the Dorrie books they had. I picked the two we have up at a church sale, and am in search of more. If anybody reading this has any of the old Dorrie books please send. They don't show up at the thrift store often, and they are just awesome.

As always

I'm babysitting for two neighborhood kids ... and Q5 complained and complained beforehand about how she didn't like R4 and E2 ... and then they came over and immediately C7 ran upstairs to play with R4 and Q5 ran downstairs with E2 to play. And they were talking about when their friends left we'd do xyz. From reviled neighbors to friends in 30 seconds flat.

Smokin' Hot

Q5 crawled into bed with us this morning around 5:50 and proceeded to tell us about an incident from yesterday.

Apparently D6, D5, and S5 (the boys) were talking with H5, P6, and Q5, (the girls) and D5 said that P6 was "Burning hot!" and Q responded "I don't think we should talk about this "love talk" right now" to which D6 agreed, because "we may hurt some people's feelings"

Then at recess, the girls were chasing D6 and P6 caught him and kissed him.

Right after Q5 told us this she dove under the covers with embarrassment. And C42 and I laughed our heads off and told her NO ROMANCE until she's 18.