Tuesday, October 16, 2012

Goings On

 On Thursday, I went to my first parent teacher conference for Ellie's in FIRST grade.

Guess what???

She is super smart!!! Go figure huh? They are going to pull her out of class for "intervention." I guess, so she doesn't get too bored. She gets to read books and write essays on them for about 45 each day.

Highlights: Her teacher said she has beautiful penmanship, and Ellie really does. We worked hard on it before she went to kindergarten and our hard work really paid off.

On some of Ellie's school testing, she scored higher than any first grader or second grader that her teacher has EVER taught.

A few weeks back, Ellie's teacher's grandma died. She was really sad. Ellie came home and spent hours drawing pictures and putting together a book for her teacher to help her feel better. It meant a lot to her teacher.

Ellie came home with a dollar in her pocket, I asked her how she got it. She said a high-school boy on the bus gave it to her. (huh?!?) I asked her why, and she said, the older kids made a rule on the bus, that they can't use bad words around Ellie, and if they do, they have to give her something. Apparently, one of the kids said a bad word, and his friend made him "pay up". She is pretty happy about the dollar, and is looking forward to getting wealthy from the potty-mouths.

We celebrated Ellie's achievements with greasy chicken(rotisserie chicken) corn bread and baked potatoes. The next day Ellie had off of school, so we played ALL day. First she made strange pillow people.(pictured above) Notice her brandbe-new school shirt. (She bought that with some of her birthday money Grandma.) She is so excited to wear it on school spirit day.YEAH!
Next, Ellie and James found some string on the stairs and decided to make kites,(wouldn't you?) they colored, cut out and constructed for hours. I warned them several times in the process that you have to have WIND to fly a kite, and we were having a strangely calm day. They had no doubts.




WANTED!! THIS BROWN EYED RUFFIAN. REWARD OFFERED!


Our winter supply of wood, gathered in one day! Barry lifted those logs on the trailer. ...and he wonders why his back hurts.
 As soon as we went outside, a little wind started right up for my munchkins. They had no trouble flying their kites. They quickly gave up on the homemade ones, and resorted to the ones Grandma and Grandpa gave them.
Lauren's favorite thing to do was get the kite going real high and then let go off the string, laughing her head off as her foolish mommy scrambled across the yard after it. It only took me three times to realize the RAT was letting go on purpose!



 Barry and I went on a first-ever-trip-without-kids to Park City. These are the mugshots my parents took of the kids while we were gone. We certainly missed the kiddos. We hiked around, got a bit lost looking for the Huber Homestead. we drove through the beautiful Guardsman pass. We went to a fun restaurant and visited the outlet malls, where I was able to find an awesome deal on a down coat. We stayed in  a nice studio suit, and got a chance to listen to conference uninterrupted. Overall we made some great memories and it was nice to spend some one on one time with my hubby of almost 9 years! Whoa ho!


I think the brown-eyed ruffian needs a nap, but is still very cute, and strangely loves wearing other people's hats.

1 comment:

Anita said...

You have such cute kids. I can't believe how fast Lauren is growing.