Charlotte's Song

I'm a little tea pot....

Wednesday, April 27th

Tessa's Special Day with Nama (Margo), Old Granny (Tessa and Charlotte), Granny (Jeff), Mom (Kelly):


1. We ate breakfast: fruit kabobs, cheerios, kix, toast with butter, milk and tangerines. Tessa ate it ALL.
2. Scavenger hunt. Gramma hid clues all over the house and Tessa had to “read” each one. Her final prize was a Foam Princess Castle wrapped in red paper.
3. Built the castle and decorated it. It took 2 ½ hours.
4. Found a Finch’s bird nest outside. I lifted Tessa up to look, and she saw one baby bird just hatched and it opened its beak right at her. There were also some eggs in the nest. The nest was built on top of the lamp outside by the garage in the back of the house.
5. Lunch: Grilled cheese sandwiches with no crust for Tessa, hamburger casserole and milk. Pudding for desert.
6. Watched 14 movies of Tessa when she was a little girl. Her favorites: Dancing to a TellaTubby and talking on the mouse. (She thought it was a telephone).
7. Lay down in Tessa’s bed but didn’t sleep.
8. Tessa practiced the piano.
9. Another scavenger hunt. This time the prize was a bag of money. $5.56.
10. Painted Tessa’s fingernails pink with sparkles on top.

Video of Tessa's song:

Family

Tessa.....Funny

I got this from Ms. Sandy and wanted to remember it......Just before lunch today I asked the children to clean up.  Andrew & Carter were complaining because they had just started their game.  Tessa turned to them and said “sorry about your luck boys!”   


Ms. Sandy also said that Tessa was chasing Andrew for a kiss and he wouldn't give her one.  Tessa then said, "You will have to kiss me when we get married."  So funny!  Andrew is younger (as Tessa is the oldest but he'll be within proper range :) 

Painted Nails

On Saturday at about 8:30 a.m. I painted Charlotte's nails.  Then, we did a few things:  we played a game, read some books, and just generally played.  The girls had fun.  At about 10 a.m., I asked Charlotte to pick up the Go Fish cards that she emptied all over the living room floor - she literally threw them all over. Then she said, "I can't... my nails.....my nails aren't dry" and shook her hands like a little diva with nails that were oh, so wet.  I just laughed inside of course.

Girls

Beauty Sleep.... I love it when the girls fall asleep with a book.

Tessa and Daddy go to the Hockey game at UWGB. They lasted through both games!

Potty Trainting 3.5 hour stretch (March 28, 2011). Tea Party, extrinsic rewards, and positive praise. Potty training complete March 28, 2011.

Margo loves raspberries. We can't wait for ours to bloom.

Music

While riding in the car to Tessa's hip hop class Tessa asks about the song on the radio. Mom, is this a country song or a city song? I laughed so hard inside. Kids are so clever!

Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star

Charlotte has her music class first then Tessa has her class right after.  At the end of Tessa's class, Ms. Pam (the teacher) asked for anyone who prepared a song to sing.  Tessa raised her hand and went to the front of the class.  She sang, Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star nice and loud.  Then, Ms. Pam asked a few times if there was anyone else.  No one would sing.  Charlotte raised her hand and went to the front.  Then she came back to grab her socks (she had taken off) and Ms. Pam said, "Charlotte, just hold your socks whilest you sing."  So, Charlotte did.  She sang (very softly almost in a whisper Twinkle, Twinkle).  It was so neat to hear her sing for the big kid's class.  Everyone clapped.  The girls did great.  On a side note, after every few songs that Tessa would sing in her class (with everyone), Char would go up to her and hug her.  I love how they love each other....and show it. 

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A Hundred Years From Now

A hundred years from now it will not matter what my bank account was, the sort of house I lived in, or the kind of car I drove ... but the world may be different because I was important in the life of a child.

Surprise

This is such a cute video!!  Love it.