Guess who took home 1st Place for her grade level. Ellie did! She did a great job and worked really hard putting it all together. Ellie and Fern have been working on it for the last two months, usually a couple of nights each week. Ellie thought up the experiment (making gas with wet and [...]
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Science Fair - First Place
April 27, 2007First Time Running
April 27, 2007On Wednesday, Ellie had her first experience running. I’ve been running for a while now, and Ellie has always seemed interested in what I was doing. So I recently offered the chance to go with me. On Wednesday night she took the challenge. We had a great time, we started off with some stretching, then [...]
How to Get Your Kids to Read
October 25, 2006While reading the online mussing of one of my favorite authors, Orson Scott Card, he mentions a great way to get your kids to read a book that he recommends,
Or you can slip it to a twelve-year-old or ten-year-old, after you’ve read it yourself, and say, “I think you’re old enough to read this now.” [...]
The Tooth Fairy Finally Comes
October 24, 2006Well the Tooth Fairy finally made a visit to our house last night. After a month of waiting for that loose tooth to finally fall out, I gave it a yank last night and it came out.
Fern was at a meeting and I was getting the girls ready for bed. Like we do every night [...]
Another week, another bag of trash
September 18, 2006It’s Monday! Time to pick up the trash. Walked our child to school today and was amazed at how much trash had accumulated. Thankfully I had a few bags stashed in the storage area of our younger child’s stroller, and on the way home I pulled one out and started filling it up. While [...]
The Tooth Fairy
September 17, 2006We knew the time would eventually come for the Tooth Fairy to visit our house. If all goes well she will be visiting our house in the very near future (maybe even tonight). Yes, Ellie has her first loose tooth. In fact she has two of them, and they are her bottom two middle teeth. [...]
First Day of School
September 1, 2006On a cool and rainy Friday, Ellie had her first day of Kindergarten. Because it was raining, Fern drove Ellie to school. Just before pulling into the parking lot Ellie said, “Mauma (her grandmother) said that if I’m afraid, to take 3 deep breaths.” At which point Ellie took 3 or 4 deep breaths.
The following [...]
Kindergarten Room
August 28, 2006Last Thursday Ellie’s school had an open house and we stopped in to take a look at her Kindergarten room (her teacher was not there). Tomorrow morning we/she has an orientation, which we are all attending, and where we’ll meet her teacher for the first time. Her first full day of Kindergarten is on Friday. [...]
Growing Up and Minor Flooding
June 25, 2006Tonight was a busy night. The first big adventure was converting Sarah’s crib into a toddler bed. If we had our way, I’m sure we would have waited, but Sarah forced our hand. Last night I woke up to some terrible screaming. It seems that Sarah had tried to climb out of her crib, but [...]
First Haircut
May 19, 2006Ellie finally had her first haircut on Tuesday. After 5 1/2 years, she decided that she wanted to get it cut. Because her hair is so curly it’s really hard to tell how long it was without it being wet. She wanted it to be cut up to her shoulders, but it ended up being [...]
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