Vocab

M: Seth, I'm really proud of your reading.
 
S: You can say fluency, Mom. I know what that means.

Papa

Today would have been my Papa's birthday. He always told me "a girl without freckles is like a night without stars" and "when an idea gets loose in an empty head it has the time of it's life." He taught me how to parallel park, what matzos are and what the word family means, as well as some moderately questionable lyrics. He was one of the good guys.

When I grow up...

S: When I grow up I want to be a Pitbull.
M: A Pitbull is a kind of dog.
S: OK. Well then I want to be a parolee.

(He had seen a commercial for a show called Pitbulls and Parolees.)

Sick Boy

Poor Seth had to sat out of school for a couple of days with a stomach bug. I can always tell by his eyes, if he isn't feeling well.

Field Trip

Mark and I had a great time chaperoning the class field trip to the state museum. We were in charge of four very excited little boys and I was glad that Mark had the day off to help me corral them!

Science Project

Seth had to make a model of either the Earth, moon or sun for science and he decided he wanted to make an Earth cake. (He and Mark have been watching The Next Great Baker.) I was skeptical but we more or less pulled it off. We baked the cake in pyrex bowls and put the two halves together. Then we frosted the entire cake with blue icing for the oceans and piped on green icing for the continents.

Funny Faces