Oxymoron

Today was Anna Claire's Indian Pow Wow at school. She looked so cute in her Indian outfit. She sang very loudly on all the songs. The oxymoron came from the fact that she had picked her Indian name to be "Quiet Flower." It was written on her headband for all to see. The child singing the loudest was named "Quiet Flower!" Her teacher thought the name was hysterical too!

Money Funny

Tonight our Bible story was about money. Russ asked the girls what was something they could do with their money that is kind.
Anna Claire: We could sell it to people that don't have any!
Lizzie: We could give it to the pilgrims and indians - they don't have any money!

Russ and I tried hard not to laugh at them because they were so sincere but it was funny!!!

Happy Fall!

Sweet "fall" pictures!

The hills are still alive....

Anna Claire and Lizzie's favorite movie is The Sound of Music! The other night Anna Claire came up to me while I was on the phone and started saying ,"Frau Schmidt! Frau Schmidt!" Then I turned and got a look at her and she said, "I'm Fraulein Maria. Can you show me to my room? Oh, those poor dears - ahh! ahh! A frog in my pocket! Mommy, you are suppose to say, 'Your lucky with Fraulein Helga it was a snake.'" Then she ran off singing "I Have Confidence in Me" with her bag and guitar.

I hated to disappoint her since I didn't know my line on short notice!

Also, she came home and told me there was a new girl in her school class. I asked her what her name was and she said, " Maria, but not the Fraulein."

Honesty

Anna Claire's school has parent-teacher conferences with the first report card so today was our day to go meet with her teacher. Last night at supper we told Anna Claire we were meeting with Ms. G and she got very quite then finally said, " Mommy, I had to sit out 2 minutes from recess one day." I said, "That's all right. What happened?" She answered, "One day I talked too loud in my class." You could see relief flood her face as she was finally honest about her actions. Who knows when this happened but she has been carrying around the weight of her actions and now she can finally feel lighter!

Friday

Today was our first cold day this year and Lizzie has been planning this outfit for several weeks. Very "rainbow" and "polka dot"! These two terms are compliments to Lizzie. If you want to get on her good side tell her how "rainbow" she looks!

Anna Claire goes to the library at school on Friday and today she checked out "Football." I inquired how she chose this particular book and she said it was for daddy so he won't have to watch football on Saturday. Instead he can read about it! Then she started "reading" the book which meant she made up what the book said and this is basically how the story went:

"All the boys cheered because they were going to play a football game. They kicked the ball and ran around. Then two of the teams said 'Hey we all want to be winners! So we will both win the game!' 'Yeah' they cheered! And they all lived happily ever after." It is nice when everyone gets to win!

Chicken Little

I checked out the book "Chicken Little" at the libraray to read to my girls. However, I did not remember how the story ended or I would not have checked it out. I was not expecting fox to eat Chicken Little and his friends. Quickly I moved to the next book.

Today is Columbus Day and the girls spent last night with Hunta. Anna Claire told me she would sleep in as long as she wanted since there was no school. Poor Hunta - that meant 6am!