Confessions of a Seven-year-old

At school, Bria kept a journal. Everyday, they wrote in it. Sometimes they were given a topic. Sometimes they could write about what they wanted. In the journal, there was room to draw a picture to go with the entry. It was fun reading and sharing Bria's journal with her. One of my favorite parts is her willingness to try hard words, even though she's just learning to read. Here are a few of my favorites:

"My idea of a perfect day would be: first, set up the dining room table. Next, make dinner. Finally, get my family to eat dinner" {If you know Bria...this is SO her personality, too. I swear she is going to grow up to be an event planner.}

"My Dad is a kowslr (counselor). My mom is a mom. My 1 brother is fun to play with. My 2 brother is 1."

"Once I won a prize for me it was a hug from my dad."

"My favorite day is Monday because it is a school day" {I wonder how long it'll be before that changes...}

"Every day I do my chores. My chores are clean my room, do the dishes, clean the whole house." {Ummm...no comment}

"If I had a magic carpet I would tell it to take me to Arizona. Why? Because I can ride the camels."

"I love snow because I can eat it." {Again...no comment}

 I'm so glad Bria's teacher had her do this assignment! She's getting so grown up! It's fun to learn about what she's thinking and doing. She's come such a long way this year with her reading and writing.

A Walk in Their Shoes

Bria and Max confiscated the camera for a few hours the other day. Here's what they captured.

From Bria:

Clean rooms. A rare moment captured on camera.

 Stone walkway:

Spring in Idaho. Coats and a wind torn trampoline.

Bird's nest in the grass. (It has taken all of Bria's self control to actually leave the eggs alone!)

Garden starts, the easy way.

Max and a large flat rock:

From Max:

Big Sister:

Mess in the family room. Well, I guess that explains the clean bedrooms.

Tiny Bear. Next weeks lesson: keeping the cord out of the picture.

Perhaps a future goal?

Colorful Guitar:

Preschool Graduation

On the same day that we went to the zoo, Max also had a preschool graduation. Well, sort of. It was an end of the year preschool party at the park. One of the awesome moms made cute little graduation certificates for the kids and we had a little ceremony.

We had a lot of first this day. Max learned how to cross the monkey bars by himself.

This was also Logan's first trip to the park (at least first trip where he's old enough to play)

Logan was glued to the baby slide. It was up the stairs and down the slide almost the whole time.

Most of the preschool kids. And, please don't ask me what Max is doing to his arm...

Max graduating!

Our future Kindergartener!

Field Trip to the Zoo

All year, I wanted to help in Bria's class, but it never seemed to work out right. So, when her teacher said they were taking any parent volunteers for the end of the year field trip, I was so going to be there!

Her class went to the zoo. Our zoo is really nothing spectacular, but kids and animals always seem to be a perfect combination, no matter what age. I got to be in charge of a little group of kids (really, more than half were mine). It was actually a really nice day breaking the string of colder-than-average days that we've had so many of!

Here are a few of the highlights:

This was Logan's first trip to the zoo and he was completely fascinated by all the animals.

In all of the times I've visited any zoo, I've never seen a peacock fanning it's feathers (or whatever the term is)!

Thirsty, anyone?

I have no idea what Bria is standing in front of.

Max was supposed to be standing in front of a black bear, but as soon as we whipped out the camera, the bear hi-tailed it into hiding. I guess he was camera shy.

Our little blue group.