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Friday, October 31, 2008

Happy Halloween

On Tuesday and Wednesday Hartford and Emily carved these pumpkins. Actually, Emily picked out the patterns and Hartford carved them.On Friday, the kids were not allowed to dress up at school. However, the YMCA allowed the children to bring their costume and put them on there. Thursday night Emily decided that she would dress up at the YMCA as "Princess super girl from Hawaii."Then, Friday night she decided to go trick-or-treating as "The princess' purple unicorn from Hawaii".Notice the red shoes from the super girl costume.

Sunday, October 26, 2008

Our Weedend

Our weekend went well. Friday night Emily and I started straightening the house up and deciding what crafts we wanted to start. Here are two of them:


I did a lot of patch work on Emily's clothes. See below. She is a little rough on the knees of her jeans. I added a few flowers for design measures. Luckily, I purchase the majority of her clothes second hand so when a hole is formed, I don't sweat it. She'll only get about two more months wear out of them anyway. It has never failed that by the end of the year, she change sizes. The other day when I picked Emily up from the YMCA, a counselor stated that Emily seemed to be getting taller. Her size 7 slim pants fit perfectly on her at the moment. However, in Emily's opinion fitting perfectly means they are too little and we need to buy three sizes bigger. Since she does prefer bigger clothes, it's easier to layer and that is what she loves to do.
There is just too little time in Emily's life here lately for t.v. She has been busy doing homework, more chores, more crafts, going to the library, going to brownie meetings, playing outside, and generally playing more with her toys. She even has stopped asking me if she can watch TV. In seven days she has only watched her TV on Sunday. Below is an example of how she plays with her toys. She dresses them up.
The only bad thing about her not watching TV is that when she gets a yellow mark from school, we can't punish her by taking the TV away. But I think we can figure something else out. However this week, Hartford and I decided to ignore her yellow mark. Come on people who hasn't made faces in the cafeteria?

Thursday, October 16, 2008

PTA night

Tonight was PTA night at Pharr Elementary. Learning games were set up throughout the school. Also, there was art projects to be done in the art rooms and physical games to play in the gym. Here are a few on Emily playing in the gym.



Here's a picture of Emily and her Kindergarten teacher and her baby. Emily has told me that she stops by and sees Mrs. Gilford ever so often. Mrs. Gilford told me that she missed Emily, especially her afternoon conversations.
At the end of the night the children in grades K-2 did songs. Emily did an excellent job with her grade. At the very end of the night, prizes were given away. Emily didn't take it well that she didn't get a prize and she really didn't take it well that a little girl that has been mean to her won a prize.

Wednesday, October 15, 2008

My Little Princess




Emily still plays dress up and wants me to take a pictures and movies of her. I wish I could stop time so that she could stay six years old for a little longer.

This morning

Emily exclaimed this morning, "Mom, get your camera. I see something beautiful."

Mountains

Mountains, glorious mountains, especially in the fall.

These pictures were taken on I-26 going to Grandma's house in Virginia. Ugh, she wore her Sponge Bob shirt. I would get rid of the thing, but Emily would miss it and wouldn't believe me if I told her that she had outgrown it.

Socks

Emily has a thing for socks. Here's a picture of her one day last week going to school. She rolled her jeans legs up so that everyone could see her socks.