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Thursday, August 11, 2011
Let the Good Times Roll
Another amazing day here today. It's been one of the best weeks all summer I do believe. I had written a coworker (Erin) whose daughter is also in 4th grade this year and asked if Avery, her daughter, was available to play today. She got back to me and said "of course!" so she brought Avery over around 10:30am today. The girls went upstairs into Madi's room and drew on her new stencil/design set of fashion doll pictures. Riley, Jules and I played in the playroom and just let them get to know each other and talk. Avery is also good friends with Hannah, her playdate yesterday. Madi has really enjoyed getting to know the girls. It's been neat to see how they interact and the last two days, the girls have just clicked. Seemed completely natural that they'd be friends and it was just so fun to watch her making new friends.
So the girls drew and then played Wii Fit. It was cute watching them run... err, I mean Madi run. Avery just moved her arms as though she was running with her feet too. Was really funny because Madi was working SO hard to run fast and Avery is just pumping her arms as fast as possible, but Madi didn't know that she wasn't running until Avery told her at the end.
We had the same lunch as yesterday - fruit, pretzels and sandwiches. Since we got the free pack for reading books from the Frisco Library, we had two free games of bowling at Strikz. So I looked up online how much shoe rental was and the cost of adding an extra game. It was fairly inexpensive so the four girls and I went up to Strikz to play a game for only $13! I didn't actually play, but I helped Riley and juggled feeding Julia while the other girls bowled. We decided to use the bumper lanes after one frame and that helped a lot. Final score was: Avery, 61; Madi, 60; Riley, 58. The girls were so well behaved and smiled the whole time.
We dropped Avery at home and got to talk with her mom and pet their dogs. Madi also showed off her skills on the RipStick - she's quite good!! Then off we went to go get Madi's hair cut at Tony's. We let her choose how long she wanted it and Lindsay only cut off about 2 inches - maybe a little bit less. But it looks great.
Madi was going to go swimming with Jadyn, another girl from school, but between the weather and Jadyn's mom having to work late, we had to postpone it for another day. So we went home and hung out for a short while. Madi finished her IXL. I had given her really easy sections the past few days after she had such hard ones last week. Tomorrow is a tougher one, but there are two sections that I'll be going over with her that I know were covered in third grade here last year.
We had chicken with garlic, cream, parmesan sauce with rigatoni. It's become one of Madi's favorites. Madi read with Jeremy - Matthew 4 and a chapter of their book together. Riley and I had our night together.
I can't tell you what a difference this week has been from last week. One of the best parts about today was when I asked Madi what she thought of Avery and Hannah. Her response was "They are amazing." And she said it with pure emotion of just loving them to pieces and had that sigh in her voice that really showed how much she likes them. It's really going to be such an amazing year for her and I'm so glad she'll be with the kids she'll be with. She's asking a lot of questions about school and the clubs and getting excited about it.
Tomorrow she was supposed to get together with Mason, but his mom is sick :( I felt so bad for her when she talked to him and got the news. She's been SOOO looking forward to it. We'll be sure to find a Saturday during the school year where she can go spend the day with them. She handled it very well and didn't get upset, but was just sad. So I'm going to see if Hannah can play again and if not, we'll try to spend our last free Friday doing something really fun.
So the girls drew and then played Wii Fit. It was cute watching them run... err, I mean Madi run. Avery just moved her arms as though she was running with her feet too. Was really funny because Madi was working SO hard to run fast and Avery is just pumping her arms as fast as possible, but Madi didn't know that she wasn't running until Avery told her at the end.
We had the same lunch as yesterday - fruit, pretzels and sandwiches. Since we got the free pack for reading books from the Frisco Library, we had two free games of bowling at Strikz. So I looked up online how much shoe rental was and the cost of adding an extra game. It was fairly inexpensive so the four girls and I went up to Strikz to play a game for only $13! I didn't actually play, but I helped Riley and juggled feeding Julia while the other girls bowled. We decided to use the bumper lanes after one frame and that helped a lot. Final score was: Avery, 61; Madi, 60; Riley, 58. The girls were so well behaved and smiled the whole time.
We dropped Avery at home and got to talk with her mom and pet their dogs. Madi also showed off her skills on the RipStick - she's quite good!! Then off we went to go get Madi's hair cut at Tony's. We let her choose how long she wanted it and Lindsay only cut off about 2 inches - maybe a little bit less. But it looks great.
Madi was going to go swimming with Jadyn, another girl from school, but between the weather and Jadyn's mom having to work late, we had to postpone it for another day. So we went home and hung out for a short while. Madi finished her IXL. I had given her really easy sections the past few days after she had such hard ones last week. Tomorrow is a tougher one, but there are two sections that I'll be going over with her that I know were covered in third grade here last year.
We had chicken with garlic, cream, parmesan sauce with rigatoni. It's become one of Madi's favorites. Madi read with Jeremy - Matthew 4 and a chapter of their book together. Riley and I had our night together.
I can't tell you what a difference this week has been from last week. One of the best parts about today was when I asked Madi what she thought of Avery and Hannah. Her response was "They are amazing." And she said it with pure emotion of just loving them to pieces and had that sigh in her voice that really showed how much she likes them. It's really going to be such an amazing year for her and I'm so glad she'll be with the kids she'll be with. She's asking a lot of questions about school and the clubs and getting excited about it.
Tomorrow she was supposed to get together with Mason, but his mom is sick :( I felt so bad for her when she talked to him and got the news. She's been SOOO looking forward to it. We'll be sure to find a Saturday during the school year where she can go spend the day with them. She handled it very well and didn't get upset, but was just sad. So I'm going to see if Hannah can play again and if not, we'll try to spend our last free Friday doing something really fun.
Wednesday, August 10, 2011
Awesome Day!
Today was one of the best days so far! Madi woke up in a fantastic mood. Ate some yogurt and finished 3 IXL sections in about 7 minutes. We had to get ready fairly quickly today because Hannah came over around 8:15am. Gonna be crazy when we actually have to walk out the door on Monday at 6:45am with everyone set to go. So not ready for that in some ways, but ready in others.
Hannah and Madi got along fantastic. Best playdate yet. They started off by playing some PhotoBooth on the computer and then doing some games on the iPod. I took everyone to the mall where I got Jeremy some new white tshirts and then took the girls to Justice and Claire's to walk around.
They were running a great sale where if you bought $50 worth of stuff, you earned $50 Justice Bucks to spend in the future. Madi really wanted to get some necklaces, bracelets, a friendship bracelet making pack and earrings. Since they were all 40% off, she used her allowance money. I purchased 4 new bras and really cool drawing kit. Thought it would be fun for the girls to do. It has pages of girls and many plastic tracing outfits so that you can design new clothes, accessories and stuff. Madi and Hannah had a lot of fun doing it and Madi spent almost the entire rest of the day drawing, tracing and coloring in it. Looks really good!
We ate sandwiches with fresh fruit and what doritos we did have left. Madi finished her IXL - which took almost no time - and then we left to go meet up with the Lebsack's at my parents' house. We ate pizza, some ice cream and brownies and went for a nice swim. Pool was quite crowded with 10 of us in it, but was a lot of fun. After the swim, the subject got to singing. We told them that Madi was a great singer so they asked if she would sing for them. She was a little bit nervous and at first, didn't want to. So she asked if I would sing with her and wanted to sing "Mystery" from the Alice in Wonderland movie. Jeremy knew it too so the three of us sang accapella. Doug (the dad) commented on what an amazing singer Madison is and was very impressed with her voice.
Madison was extremely well behaved today. Was so impressed with her manners and have been impressed with them in the last two weeks or so. The 'Thank you's' and 'please's' and such have been used often. We've been sure to tell her that we've noticed and how great a job she is doing on her manners. She's also eating with her mouth closed at meals and not chomping near as much. Did an awesome job at that during the playdate. Hannah had such a great, great time today. Her mom wrote to say how much fun it was and to say thanks for having her over. Couldn't be happier that they will both be in class together this year.
Madi had a challenge at church two weeks ago. The challenge was that for one week, she wasn't supposed to pray or read her Bible. For the next week, she was to do a devotional and pray on her own. Then she is to report back to church and tell about how each week went and which week was better. So Jeremy and I were talking with her about what kind of devotionals to do. I got the idea that we could read through the New Testament together - just one chapter each night. We started a few nights ago. Tonight Madi and I read Matthew 3. It's been great because she's asking questions about what things mean and what it has to do with God and life. We're almost finished with "My Only May Amelia." But Madi was getting so very tired so we stopped halfway through the chapter, prayed and then she crashed.
Really great week so far!! Madi is so incredibly excited about school and I'm really glad she'll be able to go soon. I think she's really ready and she's worked very hard this summer, on math in particular, and will do great. I feel confident that she's as prepared and studied up as she could possibly be to have a great start to the year. Will definitely help!
Hope you're good! We should be home in the morning if you have a chance to call. Anytime works for us! Or Facebook me to let me know when a good time for Madi to call would be!
Hannah and Madi got along fantastic. Best playdate yet. They started off by playing some PhotoBooth on the computer and then doing some games on the iPod. I took everyone to the mall where I got Jeremy some new white tshirts and then took the girls to Justice and Claire's to walk around.
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They were running a great sale where if you bought $50 worth of stuff, you earned $50 Justice Bucks to spend in the future. Madi really wanted to get some necklaces, bracelets, a friendship bracelet making pack and earrings. Since they were all 40% off, she used her allowance money. I purchased 4 new bras and really cool drawing kit. Thought it would be fun for the girls to do. It has pages of girls and many plastic tracing outfits so that you can design new clothes, accessories and stuff. Madi and Hannah had a lot of fun doing it and Madi spent almost the entire rest of the day drawing, tracing and coloring in it. Looks really good!
We ate sandwiches with fresh fruit and what doritos we did have left. Madi finished her IXL - which took almost no time - and then we left to go meet up with the Lebsack's at my parents' house. We ate pizza, some ice cream and brownies and went for a nice swim. Pool was quite crowded with 10 of us in it, but was a lot of fun. After the swim, the subject got to singing. We told them that Madi was a great singer so they asked if she would sing for them. She was a little bit nervous and at first, didn't want to. So she asked if I would sing with her and wanted to sing "Mystery" from the Alice in Wonderland movie. Jeremy knew it too so the three of us sang accapella. Doug (the dad) commented on what an amazing singer Madison is and was very impressed with her voice.
Madison was extremely well behaved today. Was so impressed with her manners and have been impressed with them in the last two weeks or so. The 'Thank you's' and 'please's' and such have been used often. We've been sure to tell her that we've noticed and how great a job she is doing on her manners. She's also eating with her mouth closed at meals and not chomping near as much. Did an awesome job at that during the playdate. Hannah had such a great, great time today. Her mom wrote to say how much fun it was and to say thanks for having her over. Couldn't be happier that they will both be in class together this year.
Madi had a challenge at church two weeks ago. The challenge was that for one week, she wasn't supposed to pray or read her Bible. For the next week, she was to do a devotional and pray on her own. Then she is to report back to church and tell about how each week went and which week was better. So Jeremy and I were talking with her about what kind of devotionals to do. I got the idea that we could read through the New Testament together - just one chapter each night. We started a few nights ago. Tonight Madi and I read Matthew 3. It's been great because she's asking questions about what things mean and what it has to do with God and life. We're almost finished with "My Only May Amelia." But Madi was getting so very tired so we stopped halfway through the chapter, prayed and then she crashed.
Really great week so far!! Madi is so incredibly excited about school and I'm really glad she'll be able to go soon. I think she's really ready and she's worked very hard this summer, on math in particular, and will do great. I feel confident that she's as prepared and studied up as she could possibly be to have a great start to the year. Will definitely help!
Hope you're good! We should be home in the morning if you have a chance to call. Anytime works for us! Or Facebook me to let me know when a good time for Madi to call would be!
Tuesday, August 9, 2011
Usual Day
Madi and the girls went to Kami's house for the day. Then we came home to eat pizza for dinner and Madi is working on her IXL for the day. Tomorrow Hannah (a girl who will be in her class this year) is coming over in the morning and then we'll get together with the Lebsacks. If my blogs are getting shorter, it is only because things are getting incredibly busy with the start of school on Monday. Like completely, crazy busy.
Monday, August 8, 2011
Weekend At Kaki's House
Subject title reminds me of the movie "Weekend at Bernie's" - but in title only. Love that movie!
Anyway to more important things! :)
Madi had a great time at Kathryn and Ranny's house. They went swimming, painted, built forts, baked brownies and just had tons of fun together!! We've missed having her with us, but are really glad that they got time with her before school starts. I'm sure Tripp will miss her too!
Madi did a great job finishing all of IXL sections for the weekend. And with a great attitude!
This morning Kathryn and Madi went to see the new Harry Potter. Said it was awesome! She's dropping her off later this afternoon at my parents' house. Some really good family friends are in town for the week so we'll be going over there to hang out with them, possibly swim and spend time catching up. They're excited to meet Madi too. Then we'll go to Buca for dinner and head home for a relaxing night.
Anyway to more important things! :)
Madi had a great time at Kathryn and Ranny's house. They went swimming, painted, built forts, baked brownies and just had tons of fun together!! We've missed having her with us, but are really glad that they got time with her before school starts. I'm sure Tripp will miss her too!
Madi did a great job finishing all of IXL sections for the weekend. And with a great attitude!
This morning Kathryn and Madi went to see the new Harry Potter. Said it was awesome! She's dropping her off later this afternoon at my parents' house. Some really good family friends are in town for the week so we'll be going over there to hang out with them, possibly swim and spend time catching up. They're excited to meet Madi too. Then we'll go to Buca for dinner and head home for a relaxing night.
Friday, August 5, 2011
Lost Tooth!
Forgot to mention that Madi lost her second tooth yesterday at lunch! Was wiggling it and it just came right out! So now there are two teeth missing on that same side. Will post a pic soon as I forgot to take one!
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