Reading Month Poster Contest

Sarah had an assembly at school on Tuesday to kick off March is Reading Month (March 2 was Dr. Seuss' birthday). She said that they had called her up as a winner and she got her picture taken with her poster. There was a 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place for each grade plus an overall winner. Thursday she came home with a book (her prize) and a winner certificate. I'm assuming that she won the 1st place for Kindergarten.

Mis Match Day

Sarah's last dress up day was "Mis Match Day". It isn't easy to see, but her pants are black and white striped. She had 2 different shoes to wear at school and 2 different boots and gloves for outside.

March is Reading Month Poster Contest

Sarah's school is having a reading poster contest for March being Reading Month. The theme was "All Aboard the Reading Express". It said it could be a family project so all the kids had a hand in creating the poster (well, except Andrew!) I looked through our digital pictures for pictures of people reading and incorporated them into our reading train.












































all finished!














Sarah cut out the train, Emily cut out the words, all three glued pictures on, William colored the first 3 cars after the engine and the black one on the top row & Sarah colored the rest plus the wheels (Emily was "in a mood" and didn't want to color any)

Custom Knit R2 Hats

I got an order for 3 custom knit hats to match an R2 droid. I thought at first that the guy had just liked how this color looked, but it is actually modeled after R3-S6 from the Clone Wars.
















Close up views:

I decided to take a picture with me modeling a hat to show the fit.

I have the hat "crooked", but as Dan said, "The domes rotate."

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It was 11:00 pm and I was tired, but I had them all done!

Sarah's Story

When I checked Sarah's folder from school last night, there were 5 sticky notes with parts of a story written on them. This is what they said:

Any ideas what it said??

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I asked Sarah to read them to me this morning.

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It says:

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Monkeys rode on their daddy's backs.

Monkeys wash in the waters.

Monkeys hide in trees from their enemies.

Monkeys eat their fleas.

Monkeys are fast little guys.

She said that they had to look at the pictures in a book and write the story they told.

Hawaiian Day

Today is Hawaiian Day, or as Sarah calls it "Hula Day". I told her she was going to dress like Lilo, since she doesn't know what it means to dress "Hawaiian".





Her grass skirt is made from a green bag from the hospital that I cut the bottom into strips. The drawstring is the waistband!

Here she is practicing her hula moves.

Sleepy Time!

The kids sometimes sleep in unusual positions. I decided to take pictures of them sleeping the other night.


















Emily isn't sleeping in an unusual position, but she picks strange toys to sleep with!










This isn't Will's most unusual way of sleeping, but this is how he was sleeping when I took everyone else's pictures.












While I was tucking all the other kids into bed, I sat Andrew down into the bend of Dan's knees. When I came back, he was asleep!