Carolyn is doing fabulous. She is a little book worm. I often have to tell her to stop reading to go to sleep or to eat. She has read all seven Harry Potter books and is jamming through them for the second time. That girl would read all DAY. She is doing well in school and is currently working on her 3 times tables. She already knows her 1s 2s 5s and 10s. She scored above the 90th percentile in every part of her California standardized tests...she sure is smart. She is doing great on the piano--mom has to practice Carolyn's songs before helping her. Sam thinks Carolyn is smarter than Dad. If Mom's not home, Carolyn is next in Sam's pecking order--he only wants her. Maybe that boy is on to something!!!
Hannah still loves owls. They are her thing. She is fascinated by their silent flight and pellets and anything owl. She doesn't even care that the pellets are pieces of bone and fur that the owls puke up, she still would love to find one so she could try to decipher which kind of owl made it. That kid is so smart!!! She has a great memory and is breezing through second grade. She sure has a silly bug. At church on Sunday a baby came crawling under the pew towards us and Hannah just got the giggles. Her giggle are always contageous so soon our whole family as well as the family owning the baby were giggling...Hannah is so excited to get baptised and thrilled at the idea of getting her own big set of scriptures like Carolyn's.
Katie is in joy school. Joy School is the bane of my existence. I do it every year and I love how much my kids love it every year but every time it is my turn to teach, I rue the day I ever decided to do such a thing. Katie loves joy school though. She thinks it is so very fun. Also, she met her future husband there. Katie told me she was going to marry Benny from Joy School. The conversation went as follows:
Me: Why do you want to marry Ben?
Katie: Because he was a monkey for Halloween (said in a duh mom sort of way)
Me: Oh really
Katie: It was cute (again, duh mom)
So I am glad for joy school. I wish someone had told me that finding a husband was as easy as finding a guy who'd wear a monkey suit. I'd have found Cyrus a lot sooner. Katie loves High School Musical and spends a good portion of every day dancing to the CD's and singing the songs.
Sam was his usual self on Halloween. He wouldn't keep his costume on (cowboy hat, vest, gun) so he had to wear a too big fireman suit that he couldn't get off!
Everyone was too excited to stand around and take pictures so sorry about the random shots but at least you can see how cute they all are!!!
3 comments:
Oh how I miss those girls. I can't wait til the next time I can have them show me what they are playing on the piano! They all look so great in their costumes. What a beautiful family you are!
Keep those kids reading!! It's the best thing for them right now. Soon they won't even want to touch a book until after college when it becomes a hobby again. At least that was the way it was for me. I was a bookworm until High School and after college I returned. There's something about getting to choose the books you want to read instead of being forces to read the classics like Dante's Inferno. Well...not all of them were bad. Sam is so cute!! But after all of these pictures....are you sure that you want another boy?
What a nice blog! I know where you can find owl pellets, by the way! There are great horned owls that live on the top ledge of the Psychology building at Sonoma State. Find the front of the library (easy to find) stand with your back to the library and the building to your left is the psych building. These giant great horned owls live atop the ledge three stories up. Quite often you can see them just hanging out. They look about two feet tall. On the ground all around the building are owl pellets. Also in Woodacre we have screech owls and I heard them every night as I walked the dogs, after it is pitch dark. There are also owls in Roy's Redwoods. At dusk you can often see them and you can always hear them. Roy's Redwoods is on Nicasio Valley Dr. just 1/2 mile north of Sir Francis Drake Blvd. You will see a gate and posted rules. It is muddy this time of year, but I guarantee you will hear an owl.
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