Monday, February 11, 2019
Elizabeth at 9!
Elizabeth is 9!
She is 58 pounds and 4' 4" tall. She usually sleeps about 9-10 hours a night. She doesn't do that weird sleepwalking thing much anymore.She usually goes to sleep at 9:30 or sometimes 10:00. I wake her up in the morning for school around 7:30.
She likes school much better this year. There are not as many disruptive kids in her class. Last year, there were 30 kids in her class. They added another class this year, so she only has 18 kids this year. She leaves for school and comes home happy.
Her favorite foods are bacon, noodles, mustard, chicken and yellow rice, burritos, mac and cheese, eggs, and hershey kisses. This is mainly what she eats. She doesn't like any vegetables. She likes a few fruits. She does not get a lot of variety in her diet and she refuses to eat most foods. Therefore, she continues to be quite thin!
Her eczema is still a problem. However, we've been using a steroid cream more this winter that is really helping. We don't like using it every day but she has been and her skin is much better. She is still only allergic to peanuts, sunflower seeds, and hazelnuts. No new allergies thank goodness!
Her favorite subject at school is art. Her least favorite subject is PE and testing. Her favorite books to read are The Land of Ellen series and American Girl books. She is an excellent reader and does very well in math too. Overall, her teacher has no complaints and Elizabeth does very well across the subjects. She is still obsessed with rocks and has a habit of constantly picking up rocks
She enjoys playing with Nathan. They still play lots of imaginative games together. Some of her favorite games are My Little Pony and Blob Sports.
Some of her favorite friends are Charlotte, Josephine, Piper and Adrianna. She loves playing with her little friends. She has no shortage of friends and seems to like everyone as long as they aren't naughty in class.
She is extremely active and never stops moving. She just doesn't ever sit still! She hasn't wanted to try many sports. She does take tennis lessons once a week. She considered softball, but due to the fact there are sunflower seeds EVERYWHERE, she said she doesn't feel safe knowing how sensitive she is to those.
She loves to play with Lego Friends, My Little Ponies, her stuffies and her squishies. Her favorite color is teal. We recently painted her room teal and for her birthday Gram and Auntie Laura decorated her room with teal.
Sunday, February 10, 2019
Elizabeth's 9th Birthday Party
Elizabeth had a unicorn birthday party! Of course, we picked the absolute worst day of the whole year to have her birthday. There was an actual blizzard going on. None of the family from far away came because the weather was terrible. 3 families got stuck in snow drifts and deep snow trying to get their daughters to the party. Jeremy went and picked up one girl, a nice Mom managed to get the the other girl, and the third girl just stayed home because the parents had to dig themselves out of the drifts and deep snow. Keep in mind that all these girls lived within a mile of our house! The snow was that deep and the wind was blowing such deep drifts. Somehow 10 girls managed to make it. We were so grateful to their parents for making the effort on such a horrible weather day so that Elizabeth could have a nice party. Part of her party plans were to make snowmen and play in the snow but it was too windy and cold.
Elizabeth planned her whole party. When the girls came in, they got unicorn masks.
Elizabeth planned her whole party. When the girls came in, they got unicorn masks.
They then drew pictures of unicorns. Some brought their stuffed unicorns so they drew those.
Next, they played unicorn BINGO.
Elizabeth was very excited to be the one in charge of bingo calling the cards. When the girls won, they got hershey kisses.
Then, Elizabeth opened her presents. She got all kinds of fun toys like squishies and slime.
11 unicorns!
They had cupcakes.
Elizabeth was all decked out in unicorn gear. She had her unicorn slippers from Uncle Brian and Aunt Karen. We had recently found those unicorn capris and shirt!
Today was the last time she would see this friend. They've been friends since kindergarten and this little girl moved to Idaho the next day.
Saturday, February 9, 2019
The semi-blizzard begins
Our super cold temperatures and winds began on Feb 9th. The real snow also got started! Here's some pictures of Nathan shoveling us out on this cold, bitter, windy day. Sadly, it was also the day of Elizabeth's 9th birthday party. Because of the horrible weather, none of the grandparents could come, but Nathan was nice enough to shovel the driveway out so her friends could make it over.
Wednesday, February 6, 2019
The February of Snow and Cold Begins...
We had a very mild winter until February 4th. Then, we began getting snow and highs that never reached 32. I had to find everyone's snowpants and boots in February. We had never needed them all winter. My daily exercise was to shovel out the driveway over and over again. I also had to find the ice scraper and brush for the car.
The first few days were fun! We had a 2 hour delay one day but it was no big deal. The kids had fun playing outside.
I'm amazed at how little snow there was in these pictures. They were taken between the 4th and the 9th. Things sure look different now on the 16th!
Sunday, January 27, 2019
Piano Recital
Elizabeth had a piano recital at the end of January. I didn't get any pictures but got this short video! The video of the actual piano songs was too long to post.
Thursday, January 17, 2019
Night of the Notables
5th graders present the "Night of the Notables." Every student researches a notable person from history. Most of the notable people are American.
Nathan decided to research Nathan Hale! Several years ago, he discovered the book series "Nathan Hale's Hazardous Tales." The series tells about American history and is narrated by Nathan Hale.
We also visited Nathan Hale's school house in Connecticut this past summer so we had pictures of that for Nathan's project.
He created a board with facts and maps from Nathan Hale's life. He memorized a 2 minute speech about Nathan Hale's life. He then presented this at this special night. There were about 100 5th graders there!
We bought a colonial costume.
Papa Norm and Gram made a quick trip down to hear the speech!
Wednesday, January 9, 2019
Award Assemblies
Every month, the school has an awards assembly and one student from each class is selected to receive either an academic award or a citizenship award. I go to these short assemblies and then forgot to put up the pictures.
Elizabeth won an academic award for December. She is in the middle row in a dark purple fleece.
Nathan won a citizenship award in October. He's in the back row in a red shirt.
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