February 2018

The girls came home with a note that the school was doing a story telling festival.  You could re-tell a story or make one up.  It had to be 3-5 minutes long.  The kindergarten did one that if you wanted you could do one that was shorter but not do it in front of the whole school just Kindergarten.  So I asked the girls if they wanted to participate.  Siena gave a quick no way (she does not like getting up in front of people or drawing attention to herself.)  Aria said 'oh I do'  I kind of thought she would change her mind but she never did.  So I started to think of stories she could re-tell only to find out she wanted to make up her own.  So she took some paper and drew her story.  We spent all week preparing/practicing it.  When I got there to watch I asked her if she was nervous and she just looked at me and said 'no' and I really don't think she was.  She got up in front of the whole Kindergarten and told her story.  She showed some pictures and used her Halloween costume from last year to dress up as a unicorn.  I was so proud of her.  She ended up being the only one in her class to do a story and only about 5 other kids from all 3 Kindergarten am classes did it. That night I took her to get some ice cream to tell her how proud I was that she would get up there and tell her story and practice so hard the entire week. Here is her story:

Once upon a time there was a Unicorn named Uni who lived in the forest with her friends the fairies.  They liked to play hide and seek.  There was also a witch who lived there in a cave.  One day the witch found Uni playing hide n seek and cast a spell on Uni turning her into a dragon.  She told the dragon to go destroy the forest and she did.  The fairies came up with a plan to get Uni back.  They tied the dragon up with ropes and then sprinkled fairy dust over her and she turned back into a unicorn. The fairies and Uni cleaned up the forest and they lived happily ever after.



Ever since the kids got roller skates for Christmas, they've been begging us to take them to Classic so they could roller skate at a real roller skating rink.  We went on a day where we hoped it wouldn't be too crowded in case they kept falling but it didn't matter because they were all so good and a lot faster than I thought they would be.



The girls had their 100 days of school and had to decorate a cape with 100 things.  They both chose sticker hearts and then all 3 of them had to take 100 things as well to eat.  Jaron took 100 pretzels and they made a trail mix for his 100 days.



I got to go with Jaron and his Pre-K class on a field trip to the Aquarium.  I'm pretty sure he was more excited to ride the bus than he was to go to the aquarium.  He and his friend Simon sat with me and had a fun time.  We walked around for a while and Jaron was actually a little grumpy because he said 'it was boring, we just walked around and looked at things.'  lol...he was mad we couldn't go into the playground area that he's used to going in from when we had a pass there.  But he did get to do the rope bridge and hold a butterfly. 



We finally have started getting snow around here.  So we made our first snowman of the year.  Now every time we leave or come home I hear 'hi Frost, bye Frost, hope you don't miss us too much.'



We also took a trip to California but I'll save that for it's own post coming soon.