Just another CarleSpawn weblog

We made more wookiee and Star Wars gingerbread cookies.

Ezri used our final dough scraps to make a gingerbread mini pie (mound?).

She thought I should share a photo of it.

The math – she’s 25/25. The listening to instructions – she’s 0/5.
And she still writes her numbers and letters backwards sometimes. The right and left are hard for her because of her somewhat ambidextrous nature.

I love the teachers “sad face ?.” I’ve felt that way too, Mrs. Z.

But these kids do.

Thanks, Lori, for all the Halloween balloon fun.

Trick-or-treating was rainy and wet, but with friends like these it was still super fun!

T considers putting her hand into the Chomper Plant’s teethy mouth.

Ezri with her class for the school Halloween celebration.

The kids wanted to take a photo with the new fence.
Ta-da!

Ivan drew all the green candles and he lit them with the yellow marker.

Ezri drew the other candles and did the math to make sure there are 90 on the cake.

Good team work, kids! I think it turned out great.

The kids aren’t coming along to Santa Barbara, but they are making a card with 90 candles and sending their love.

Riding on a hay ride through a corn field.

Playing in her leaf nest in the yard.

Singing I’m on top of the world, Ezri asks about the top of the world and if she can stand on it. I ask her how would you tell where the top of the world is. Ezri says, “Well, if there are words on it then you can tell by the words which way is up. And sometimes the tag is on the bottom.”

“Hippos can close their noses underwater!” Ezri is now reading nonfiction books and sharing fun facts with me.

Ezri has passed through the why phase and into the what if phase. Her brother is catching it.
“What if I took a banana and I put half of it in my mouth like this?” “What if the whole house were made of cheesy dibbles?” “What if we had a toilet on top of the car and used it while we were driving somewhere?”
How is a parent to answer these deep questions?

“If you can make a bracelet with just your fingers then you can always make one. Cause you always have your fingers. Unless your fingers get cut off.”