Monday, March 24, 2008

Easter Cupcakes












Boy did I have help! We made cupcakes for Easter. Caitlyn did most of the work, making great pink cupcakes. Everyone had a hand in decorating and well....you can see how that went!

Sunday, March 16, 2008

My Girl


Nothing of importance...she is simply too sweet. She likes to "sing" opera now!

Monday, March 10, 2008

Rescue Heros and Country Girl











I had a yard full of rescue heros. They seemed intent on putting many bricks and sticks in the duck pond! Then a sweet country girl came out on her 4 wheeler. Note the cowgirl boots with a skirt! Apparently she had some driving infraction because she was quickly followed out by the police!

Wednesday, March 5, 2008

Book Worm!!


Way to go my girl! We have a program at school called Accelerated Reading, or AR. The elementary kids are divided into teams and read books. The books have to bevpart of the program but are very far reaching. The kids then take computer tests on the book and earn points. Of course it is a great contest, team against team. Caitlyn is on team Dolphin, in third place. However, her grade is only in second place. Which means that only one other grade ( I think fifth) is higher than first grade in number of points. Team Dolphin consists of kids from K-6. Caitlyn is the second highest point earner for her team. She had a goal based on her postion in first grade-6 points in this six week period. She passed that and I challenged her to get to 15 points and I would get her ice cream at DQ. She missed one day of school and still made the points. We went to DQ and were very proud. So I said, thinking that with only 1 week left in the 6 week period, make it to 25 and we can go again. She come home from school with 24 points. She read two books at home and will test on those tomorrow. So guess who is going to score DQ again?!!

But the way cool thing is......she is reading chapter books!! I am so super proud of her. She has great comprehension because her test scores are excellent.

Like mother like daughter, books are our friends. And if anyone has any books in the "Jenny Dale Pony Tales" series, please let me know!!!