Every year my parents' neighborhood has a fun party on the block. This year they had pony rides, bounce house, food, games, face painting and a costume contest. It was really chilly!!! Madi was super excited to wear her new cape. Grammy and Poppi came by and dropped it off in the morning. It is awesome!!!! So incredibly soft and looks perfect with the rest of the outfit.
We spent some time with Poppi and Grammy this morning. Just hanging out and chatting mostly. After Julia had her nap, we headed to my parents' house. It wasn't as large of an event as it has been in the past, but it was still fun. Riley and Jules rode the ponies and Madi and Riley got to go in the bounce house. The girls all loved the nothing bundt cakes and popcorn.
When it came time for the costume contest, the girls really weren't interested. Riley and Madi did decide to go up front and stand in line for a chance to win a prize. They had a contest for the most original costume and there were several kids who went up. They asked Madi what she was and what her name was. And she won!! She has a gift card to Main Event. Not sure how much it's worth, but it's really great that she won. After all, her costume is original! And awesome.
We went back to the house and had jack o'lantern pizzas from Papa Murphy's, changed into pjs and had a candle lit music time at the table with my mom showing her violin skills! She let Madi hold it and showed her how to use the bow. Madi loved it!
Then we went upstairs and watched the new Tinkerbell movie in their living room upstairs. Had popcorn and snuggled everywhere in the room. The girls had tons of fun and so did we. Madi said she wishes she could rewind the night because she loved it so much.
Today we went to church. I love that Riley and Madi often talk about what they learned and recite the memory verse together. It's really great.
This afternoon Madi finished IXL (She had laps one day this week and had to sit out of recess on Friday for not having her homework done. Actually she had it done, but cleaned out her bag where she had tossed all the papers instead of putting them in her binder. When she cleaned it out, she set them on the counter and we recycled them. And her homework was in the pile so she had to stay in and do it). I helped her with the end of the section by doing the problems and then going over each one with her. Very impressed with how great her math skills have come along. Her multiplication in particular is so much easier for her and she's gotten fast at it while still getting it correct. She then did her Fasttmath work. And got her iPod back!!!
We had planned to give her the iPod back this weekend. We were fairly busy with things on Saturday so we waited until her stuff was done on Sunday. She was so excited to have her games back. She hasn't had her iPod in a month now due to the lying. She now has it for Friday - Sundays but we aren't letting her take it into her room at night yet.
She had earned back the computer, but the day she earned it back she chose to open a blog under the name "Emily" and link it to ChatNow or ChatLog or something like that. Don't remember the whole name. And then opened up her twitter account. When asked about it all, she said she wanted people to be able to talk with her. We asked what kind of people. She wasn't really sure. We talked about cyber safety and the type of people who can be out there and how it is really in her best interest to play some games, chat with people she knows and not open accounts. She shared that she had opened the twitter account in the Philippines and that you didn't know about it. And then reopened it here to start chatting. There isn't anything on the account. And we have again taken away computer privileges because we told her that we needed to have time to go over limits and more cyber safety things that we thought she knew or did know, but wasn't using. She has access to Facebook to see pics when you tell her about it and she can do her homework and projects using the computer. I changed the password to her account so that we make sure she cannot access the twitter, chatnow/chatlog/whatever it is or the blog. I wasn't so worried about the blog. It's all about being able to talk about Artemis and Greek mythology. But being linked to chatting with others... just not a good idea. We'd rather be a little overprotective about it than not enough.
Her grades are doing awesome. Progress reports come home this week. As of right now, she has 100 in all of her english subjects and science. 94 in Social Studies, 97 in something else and 98 in Math. She's really doing great in them.
She's looking forward to seeing you in 20 days. It's going to come so soon!!!
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