A Thief, Technology, and Tibias

Thief- Yesterday Megan was eating her breakfast (a healthy Strawberry Pop Tart!), and I hear "NO". Kellie had grabbed half of the pop tart out of Meg's hand, ran to the other side of the room, shoving it in her mouth as she ran.

As I peered into the room, Kellie had a huge strawberry crumbly smile and had her hands out palms up as if to say "What? I didn't do anything!". She and I had a chat about how that wasn't nice and I made her hug Megan to say sorry. Megan got to finish her breakfast at the table while Kellie was trapped in the living room. Kellie is one fast kid. She's gonna be the one preschool calls about saying she needs to work on sharing.

Technology- Megan doesn't like Technology (computer) class at school. I asked her why and she replied "They don't let me play Webkinz or other games. That's what computers are for. The other stuff is boring." I tried to explain to her that computers were good for other stuff too (like Facebooking and blogging, then I realized that the other stuff is boring, but didn't share that thought with her).

I told her that since she wants to be a "cooker like Rachael Ray or builder like Norm" she might need to know how to use computers in other ways. She said she needed a stove or a hammer, not a computer. That girl can come up with them! She has an answer for everything!

Tibia (also known as a leg bone)- the other day I looked out into our yard and saw what I thought was one of those cardboard tubes from gift wrap. Emmett used to like to play with them so I figured Meg or Kev had given him one. I wasn't sure, but didn't investigate further.

Kevin saw the same object and decided to get a closer look (he used his binoculars- it's too cold to go outside unless necessary). He discovered it was the leg of a deer, just the bottom skinny portion with fur on it but no real "meat" (don't know if it's called a tibia in deer, but I needed a T word!). EWWWW.

He said it had gnaw marks and that Emmett had probably been chewing on it (even more EWWW).

Now where is the rest of the deer and how did the leg get into my yard? Emmett has brought us a few birds and a rabbit (he's a Spaniel so that's expected of him), but I don't think he's capable of yanking the leg off a deer!

Sad school is starting back again

I don't want Megan to go back to school tomorrow. I'm going to miss her. Kellie will miss her. She doesn't want to go back either. She asked me if she'd still be in Kindergarten or if she was in 1st grade now- poor kid, not even half way in this year and she's ready to be done!

I really enjoyed watching the girls play together and entertain each other. They did great. Kellie has grown a lot developmentally since summer, making it easier for them to play together now. There just isn't much time after school or on weekends for them to have a lot of free time.

It's also been fun to do stuff with Megan (she loves games) and be a little more laid back about bedtime and get up time. Megan and I are not morning people, so we both really enjoyed that!

I'm looking forward to Spring break already.

Meg earned 5 stars

At school each kid has a paper car that starts out the day on green. If you have trouble following the rules it moves to yellow and then to red.

We asked Megan what happens if your car goes to red, she put her hand to her ear and said "Hello Mom and Dad, your child is having trouble behaving today. This is the teacher. " Funny girl! Hopefully I don't get one of those phone calls!

If the car stays in green all day and you have "excellent behavior" (as Meg put it) you get a stamp on your star. Get 5 stamped stars and you get to reach into the treasure chest. Since they introduced the treasure chest on the 2nd day of school it's been all Meg talked about!

Yesterday going to school Meg was so excited that she'd be earning her 5th star, she was confident she would! And she did it!

Those of you who know Megan can probably guess what she chose from the treasure box- a stuffed animal. It's a horse that she named Goldie. She's getting better at naming things- unlike Square the lamb and Wall, the name she 1st wanted us to use for Kellie!

I'm proud of our girl! She's growing up and doing so well!