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Year: 2015

Kidisms 20

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Me: Katie, can you help me put these [dishes] away?
Katie: Of course, my dear!

We were shopping at Marshall’s and testing out a squeaker dog toy.
Me: [squeak squeak]
Katie: MAMA! That’s Maggie’s sound!!

I cracked my neck.
Katie: Mama! Don’t break your bones!

Katie wanted to take a picture of me so I gave her my phone. She backed up, looked to be framing the shot, and took the picture.

Me, looking at it: Good job, Bug!
Katie, smiling proudly: I made sure your head wasn’t cut off!

Seeing a mannequin in lingerie at Kohl’s:
Katie: Mama! She forgot to put clothes on!

Another shot at Santa

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Our community clubhouse had cookies and activities with Santa this morning, so we thought we’d try with the kids again—just in case we got a better picture (since I could dress the kids up).

But first, the at-home pictures:

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And then while waiting for Santa, they did some crafts and coloring:

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Katie wanted NOTHING to do with Santa, so it was just Owen!

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But she did make more rings to put on the tree!

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Katie’s afternoon challenge

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She’s done a handful of letters at a time but never the whole set…but she’s very good at it so I dumped them all out and left her to it.

She did quite well until a little more than halfway through when she started whining that it was useless and she couldn’t do it. I didn’t want to help her too much, but I arranged them a bit and tried to put wrong letters in wrong pieces which got her interested again (to tell me I was wrong).

Finished!

Putting them away!

 

A quick visit to Owen’s classroom.

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Long story short, he had been missing his daily folder (we’d looked everywhere) so since I had to drop off some stuff at the school, I took him to school and had him search his classroom. We didn’t find it, but he enjoyed showing me a few things in the room.

The treat bag they all decorated—they get small treats at the end of the day if they had good behavior.

I liked this and am going to start using it at home—it’s one of Owen’s major issues when writing!

They had to do an acrostic poem:

Oreos are my favorite
West Virginia football team is not my fav
Eating chicken is my fav
New Years Eves is my fav
Hugs are my favorite
U_____ is cool (he doesn’t even know what this is)
Duny [Dunia] is my friend
Summer is fun
Olives are not my favorite
Nuts are yummy

Inclusive Schools Week—Wear a bow/tie

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Technically it’s National Inclusive Schools Week but for basic conversation, it’s a type of spirit week. 🙂

Inclusive Schools Week is an annual event sponsored by the Inclusive Schools Network (ISN) and Stetson & Associates, Inc., which is held each year during the first full week in December. Since its inception in 2001, Inclusive Schools Week has celebrated the progress that schools have made in providing a supportive and quality education to an increasingly diverse student population, including students who are marginalized due to disability, gender, socio-economic status, cultural heritage, language preference and other factors. The Week also provides an important opportunity for educators, students and parents to discuss what else needs to be done in order to ensure that their schools continue to improve their ability to successfully educate all children.

Monday: “Your talents are a gift!” Wear a bow tie or bow to show what a gift you are to our school.

   
 

Katie’s first hibachi!

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We had errands to run after swim lessons then we were hungry so we found a coupon for a hibachi place. Owen had been to one years ago but this was Katie’s first time.

She liked the chop sticks.

She was freaked out by the first big shot of flames (which of course they START with) but overall she thought it was cool.

Of course she didn’t like ANYTHING on her plate.

He liked all the showy stuff; tried the soup, salad, shrimp, and scallops (the soup and salad were okay, he didn’t like the others); and actually ate quite a bit of his chicken and rice. He decided he liked Tom’s filet better than his chicken so he wants that next time. 🙂

Cookies with Santa

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The local high school hosted a huge craft fair that I wanted to check out (we missed it last year) and they also had a “Cookies with Santa” portion that we wanted to take the kids to. We got to the North Pole shortly after it opened so we didn’t have to wait too long. While daddy held our place in line, the kids worked on bead candy canes:

Can you guess which was Owen’s and which was Katie’s? 🙂

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Santa! (They had someone taking pictures, but it wasn’t anything really posed or official—she was just off to the side snapping so we had NO idea what we would get. I was taking pics the whole time.) Katie wasn’t eager to sit with Santa, but she didn’t turn away…and she talked to him but didn’t get excited about the hug.

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Owen’s turn! He’s too big for Santa’s lap!

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At the end we had Katie go back up. I snapped about six quick pics and this one actually turned out great!

This was one of the ones the student elf took—I was impressed that it turned out as well:

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On the way out, Katie decided she wanted to make antlers:

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Infielder camp!

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We signed Owen up for an infielder camp to get him ready for spring baseball. He’s decent enough at batting, but his fielding definitely needed work. We lucked out in that none of the other kids showed up for the first lesson so he had an hour of one-on-one coaching! (It’s a very small class anyway, but any one-on-one time is welcome!) And as it turned out, it was great that it happened because Owen REALLY needed it: after a few minutes of frustration (Owen couldn’t understand how to “mirror” was the coach was doing) Tom stepped in and told him that Owen was only 6 and the coach, as expected, was gobsmacked, saying the kid who just left—who was the same size as Owen—was 12. But Owen had fun and now we have like 9 more weeks of this on Friday nights!

These were the few pics Tom snapped during practice.

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