Katie did this again!
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Katie’s coliseum
It was a group project for social studies and her group won second place out of all the classes!
Katie’s 6th grade curriculum night
Tom was recuperating from a nerve block procedure so I was in my own. All her teachers are great and they all like her!
I was supposed to measure her locker for shelves and I had been worried I wouldn’t be able to find it. Haha. She had given me the number but turns out I really didn’t need it.
Katie was in the art show!
Katie’s art teacher picked a painting of hers to appear in the community art show so we went to check it out before the parade (which Owen was in).
Katie’s been busy today!
A great start to this mother’s day.
Sleeping in, hubby cuddles, crispy waffles (cheesy eggs and sausage not shown!), a handmade card, and hot chocolate…
Katie’s school avatar
They had to create a computer version of themselves and add things they liked. I’m not quite sure about the weights, LOL.
Grandparent Camp 2022
All photos and captions are from Gramma Jean!
Katie’s 4th grade open house
I loved seeing Katie interact with her teacher—who gave sass right back to Katie! Both her teachers had great things to say about her.
Owen went with us because he wanted to “check out his old stomping grounds” and visited with his third and fifth grade teachers! He’s now taller than both of them!
Art is happening!
Maggie is back home.
The turnaround time from Lap of Love was astounding. Maggie’s ashes were hand delivered to us this morning. Katie put her with the other pets (and the sign she made).
Cue tears. (And more random tears when I’m writing and posting this on 3/6.)
7 Tips to become a successful student
Owen doesn’t bring home too many projects so when I saw this I was in love…and so proud. Great tips, awesome drawings, and nice handwriting. I told him I’m keeping this one for sure.
Katie’s good at cookie decorating!
Katie’s art project turned into a gift!
Grannie said that Katie decided this was going to be a gift for one of her friends!
Kati
A note from Katie
Do your kids leave your apology (and sometimes love) notes outside your room?
Katie’s 3-D hand!
Katie’s card for Tom
So long story short, the kids didn’t get anything for Tom for Christmas because I told them it was up to them to give me some ideas and tell me when they wanted to go shopping. It never happened because, well, kids. And it’s always all about them.
Of course we don’t care if we get anything from them, but we’re trying to teach them to think about others. ON THEIR OWN.
So when I asked on Christmas Eve what they had gotten for him, they both looked so sad. I suggested they make him cards with coupons in them—which they both liked but didn’t get around to actually doing until today after I’d reminded them TWICE. And when they eventually did sit down to do it, they still didn’t really grasp the concept of coupons. And of course they didn’t really want to listen to me because they know everything. And I kind of hoped that a lightbulb would go off for Owen (because he hadn’t gotten me anything and was sad about it when he realized it) but nope. No lightbulb whatsoever.
So anyway—look at all the options Katie gave him of things he can choose. Yep, they’re pretty much all stuff she wants to do. Merry Christmas?!
Sidenote: Owen went shopping with Tom to get Katie something but didn’t think to get me anything. Gramma Jean asked him what he got me and he just hung his head and looked ashamed.
Katie’s quite the watercolor artist.
Katie needed watercolor paints for art so I got her some nicer ones from Amazon. She wanted to use them before art class of course… But she’s quite the little artist and did these really neat pages and I told her I wanted all of them!
Out of the mouths of kids!
Our neighbors brought us some sweet corn from the local stand that is often hard to come buy because it goes fast. The kids decided to make them thank yous. Katie did this… Hahaha. She used scented markers.
The kids’ PTO calendar submissions
I finally got the kids to make pictures for the annual calendar contest…I loved both of them but unfortunately they didn’t get selected.
Katie left us notes again tonight.
Of course Tom’s has an I love you in it. Mine she just asks for something.
Owen left these on my side of the bed.
He usually comes downstairs at or after his bedtime to show us these things he draws, so I think this was his compromise.
Chalk art designs
I kept seeing this on Facebook so I let the kids do it today. They had fun but since I wasn’t involved there was no cute shape or hidden letter or the full driveway filled. But it got them out off my hair for about 45 minutes.
Katie was one happy poop face.
I gave Katie some new face paints awhile back and she’s been begging to use them but she didn’t want to do it herself—and Owen wouldn’t let her paint on him—so today Tom promised he would paint her face. And they decided on a poop emoji.
She was so excited when it was done and she loved it so much she could barely stand still.
After this she did get Owen to paint on her arms…and eventually it led to getting paint all over the couch so that wasn’t fun. But I got it mostly cleaned up so all was well.
This is why I don’t do kid crafts.
I thought I was going to be Fun Mom™ and make Kool aid play dough with them. Katie loves play dough and Owen enjoys “cooking” so it would be perfect, right?
Seriously, like 30 seconds in and I’m annoyed because they had issues getting the ingredients out. Then mixing the dry ingredients was a mess because they didn’t listen and do it gently so there was flour all over (plus I got attitude from Katie because she just. wouldn’t. listen.) and then the whining while they stirred because it wasn’t mixing in PERFECTLY like they apparently thought it should.
Katie kept whining and complaining about the smell (one was Strawberry Lemonade and one was Fruit Punch?!) saying it was “awkward” (what?!). And once it was done, Katie decided she didn’t want to play with it.
😒
To his credit, Owen was good. Katie was the one who annoyed me the most.
Owen’s P/T conference
All great things to say from both of his teachers!
Katie’s P/T conference
Teacher says she’s doing great—she’s a great reader. Huh? What?! Well, we know she is…but we can never get past the complaining. She doesn’t complain at school, of course. Here are some of her projects.
I guess we should start the wedding plans?
I found this on Katie’s door this morning. Could Zander be any cuter?! I thought this was from the cruise but she said it was from this summer. Which means I’m very unobservant…or she didn’t mean summer and just meant one of the times they were at our house before the cruise.
I come from a family of hoarders.
This was from 1977. 😂
Katie’s Curriculum Night & Tornado Warning
Parents who do their kids school projects for them? UGH. Our second graders had to create a square about themselves/their family. Are you kidding me with these?! I mean she they’re GORGEOUS and amazing but c’mon.
The letter Katie left for me:
All the things she references are other projects hanging around the room:
Baseball sheet:
Her shirt (her goals):
And she wins the most organized desk over Owen:
When we all walked in it was sunny and nice. Then we were in the basement and couldn’t see because it was getting dark out. Then everyone’s phones started going off…
Then there’s nothing like being sent into the hallway to wait out a tornado warning! There’s a first time for everything!
I checked in with Tom because they had been at baseball practice and he said it had been cancelled so they were actually already at home…eating dinner in the basement. And Owen was showing Tom what to do in case of a tornado. (Interestingly he wasn’t nearly as scared as he used to be with wind issues. So that’s a bonus.)
They ended up cancelling the rest of curriculum night as we had had ended up waiting for like 30 minutes. Thankfully our teacher had been about done.