Friday Funny

According to Ellie:

I will be the favorite mom.  I'm going to buy them everything they want and everything they want to do.  I'll take them to fancy restaurants...McDonalds.  I'll get them candy whenever they ask.  I'll buy them real make-up and put it on the kids.  When they misbehave, they'll watch TV.

Her sisters have warned her they will not baby-sit.

Friday Funny

Justin: You'll have to turn the cute all the way up.

Ellie: All the way up to adorable?

Friday Funny

Shouldn't dementors be happy and full of joy, since they pull all the joy out of everyone?

Friday Funnies

We asked, “Alexa, can we have a marriagement?” but she said no.

It [the tablet] is connected to the interstate and the printer.

2018

Yet another year has passed!  A year in review:

 Climbing

 Snow

 Hosting a couple of sleepovers

Trail Life's Raingutter Regatta

Hosted a couple of baby showers

 Easter

 Preparing a pack of goodies for the father of a set of twins

Nate joined the Potter-heads

 

Camping

 Cake decorating

 Reading

 Birthdays

 Mother's Day

 Trail Life Awards

Home repairs

General silliness

 

When I came back from the national AHG conference

 A new school year

Kindergarten!!

 More silliness

More climbing

 

An Alice in Wonderland party

 5

 Repairing a tent...in the garage, so I didn't have to bring it upstairs for the repair

13

 Visiting a local park for a festival

 

Ellie got her ears pierced

 11

Halloween

 A healthy "cake" for my mom's birthday

 A Veteran's Day Parade

 

9

 A bit of snow

 Trip to a local church for a walk through Bethleham

 AHG Christmas party (cupcake decorating)
 
 Advent

 
 Gained: a new smile (braces)
Lost: 65 pounds and my glasses

 More reading, of course!

We actually all made it to the Christmas Eve service at church!

 

Twas the Night Before Christmas

Happy New Year!

Kristy

Friday Funny

We were visiting my parents on Christmas Eve-Eve.  As we walked out in to the cool rainy morning for church, “Ah, it feels like camping!” 🏕

Ha!

Kindergarten at Christmas Break

We've mainly worked in Five in a Row this semester, which I love.  We've done several fun books: Lentil, Cranberry Thanksgiving, and Ping to name a few.  Ellie is reading quite a few sounds, as we've passed the half way point in the Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons.  Her handwriting has grown by leaps and bounds, having started the year only able to write the letters "ElliE."  She still gets frustrated in trying to make things fit on those primary writing lines, but she has gained a great deal of skill.

I did find that the Miquon Orange book I picked up was not quite where she was yet.  The first several pages were a great fit, but it quickly switched to written numbers, assuming that had been taught previously.  While Ellie could count, we hadn't taught her to read and write numbers.  (My stance is that school begins early enough, so we don't do 'preschool,' beyond reading with the kids.)  So we backed up a bit.  We've been working on a dot to dot book, which starts with 1-10 and a chart at the top, so she can be sure to be getting them in order, and moves up to 1-20 as well as a Kumon book for numbers 1-30.

This last week, we've worked on geography...from planet Earth to our particular house.  Here is our gal, with her work.

House→Street→City→State→Country→Continent→Planet

 Excuse my blotting skills, but I don't exactly want to give out our address!

Merry Christmas!

Kristy