he daily pressure of getting my kids to school on time, in clean clothes with clean faces, and with everything they need: lunch, homework, backpack, snack, and P.E. shoes. Laurel is sad. She loved Kindergarten, loved her teacher, and loved learning new things. Mary is thrilled to have her three favorite people here all day to play with . . . we'll see how long this lasts considering she's used to being the Queen Bee. As always, May and June have been filled with activity. I have enclosed many photos of the last few weeks.Mary and I joined Laurel on her trip to Como Zoo in May. We were blessed with a beautiful
day, free of rain which is unusual in Minnesota at this time of year. On the 28th, Laurel hosted David, Mary, and I at her reading cafe where we enjoyed a smorgasbord of literature. It has been thrilling to watch Laurel go from barely knowing her ABC's at the beginning of the year to reading everything in sight. Around Christmas, something clicked in the reading department and stayed with her. Now she can read any children's book she picks up.
Jacob participated in the Fourth-Grade egg drop on Monday. Unfortunately, none of his eggs survived. Little did we know that Mr. Torfin, the assistant principal, was going to launch
the egg packages off the top of the school. We, of course, assumed he'd drop them (as stat
ed in the event title). Jacob's egg's might have survived if dropping had happened, but un
der the launching circumstances - well, it wasn't pretty. David helped Jacob prepare for the egg drop and typical for him, carefully followed the rules of not using any packing material or food. Within minutes, David was over-analyzing everything, "Technically, this isn't packing material, but it will act as padding, so we can't use it." I, on the other had, was willing to 'be creative' like the school suggested, but my husband would have none of it. And of course, I WAS RIGHT. If we'd fudged a bit like all of the other fourth-graders, I'm sure at least one of Jacob's eggs would have survived.
I don't have any pictures of Charlotte's greatest accomplishment in May: finishing a year of Excel. Charlotte completed three seminars this year and in the process, learned and taught all
of us about Praying Mantises, learned about her personal learning style, and completed experiments with bubbles which taught her about cohesion. (I must say I am learning more by helping my kids than I ever learned in school myself. Thank goodness for motherhood!) The pictures I have included of Charlotte are from the last day of school. Mary and I cheered
Charlotte on to great finishes as she skipped, hopped, kicked, and ran her way through various relay races at the second-grade party.
And last, but not least, we have photos of Mary. Do you like her hair? I really do care what she looks like. Unfortunately, during our two-week road trip through
the SouthWest last year, she decided to pull her hair out until she was bald on the right side. And once, it started
to grow back in, Laurel
decided to play beauty
salon and cut it again. Soon it will be long enough for someone to give it a shape, but until then, we just love her as she is. The photo of Mary with the glass of water was taken at the American Girl Place in Chicago where we dined over Spring Break. Very elegant ~ very kid friendly.
Finally, I wanted my Mom & Dad to see this picture from Mother's Day as it shows our new screen porch as well as my beautiful kids. Thank you for being photographer, David!
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