Wordful Wednesday

Did you see the lunar eclipse earlier this week? We got up to see it. Claire is very into space so she really enjoyed it. Here is my little Backyard Astronomer at 2 am in the backyard with her telescope...

We took pictures of the moon, but none of them came out. It was really cool though. It turned all reddish-orange.

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You have to be what???

We are hoping to buy a new house and move soon. I was asking Claire about how she'd like her room in the new house. She wants either Dinosaurs or outer space! That's just lovely...how am I suppose to find girly dinosaurs or planets? Anyway...

She has a garden room now so I was trying to talk her into keeping it. This is how the conversation went:

Me: Why don't you just keep your garden room?

Claire: Well, its not great.

Me: Sure it is.

Claire: No, no one has told me they like it.

Me: People have told me how cute it is.

Claire: Well, no one has told me. It has to be great. I want people to like it.

Me: Why?

Claire: So I can be popular!

Me: What??????????

She is only 7 and she's homeschooled. Where in the world did she get the idea that she needs to be popular???? I explained that she just needs to be herself and people will like her for her, but I think she still thinks she needs to be "popular".

Is this what I have to look forward to with a girl? I think I should be afraid...very afraid!

Any moms of older girls out there? I'd love to hear your advice.

By the way, here is a link to a post about her garden room when I first did it way back in 2008. I still think its cute and want her to keep it, but we'll see. :)

http://aimeesland.blogspot.com/2008/11/garden-room.html

Claire did it!

We've been using the Sing Spell Read and Write curriculum with Claire. We started the K-1 curriculum last year for Kinder. She had a tough time with some of it so we used it as a 2 yr. program. Yesterday she finished it! Actually, she still has a comprehension test to take, but she did the last workbook page and read the last story in the last reader. There were 17 readers in all. I'm very proud of her. Reading did not come easy for her.

The book was called the Raceway book and she had a racetrack poster to keep track of her progress. Here's the poster...



The last story in the reader was about a class who finished their Raceway book and their teacher threw a party complete with a raceway cake that looked like the chart. So, I decided to make one for Claire. It was very hard decorating a cake as a surprise with her in the house! I also had only about 1 1/2 hrs. to do it in between lunch and Nathan's physical therapy. That's definately the fastest I've ever decorated a cake! Here's my cake...



Claire was very excited and surprised to get it! We called the kids downstairs after dinner and my husband said, "ok, who did it?" Both of them said, "I didn't do it!" They didn't even know what he was talking about, but they weren't about to admit to it! Then, he told them to go sit at the kitchen table. I could hear Claire sitting there saying, "I didn't do it, Nathan, you did!" Always quick to blame her brother! Then I brought out the cake and said, "No, Claire, You did it!" She was so excited. I think she said thank you 3 or 4 times.



When she went to bed last night she told me getting that "fabulous cake" was her favorite part of the day! Hearing that was mine!

Peeps!

Our newspaper has a Peeps diorama contest each year. This year claire made one. She just made a small one, but it turned out real cute. She chose a snow theme since we've had so much snow this year. She didn't make it into the top 10, and she was disappointed. I told her we could do a bigger one next year. Here is her diorama:





If you'd like to see the 10 finalist you can see them on our paper's website. Some of these people really go all out and make big, extravagant ones!
http://www.star-telegram.com/2010/03/24/2061973/which-peeps-diorama-are-you-sweet.html#tvg