The kids and I like playing word games to practice rhyming, so when going to the grocery store... Buckle buckle! Buckle muckle! Buckle knuckle! Buckle f.....!

You didn't take a nap today Shelly.
"I know, cause I already taked a nap last night . When I was in bed." Of course!

Official kindergarden news: the groundhog did NOT see his shadow. YAAY!

Entertainment

This morning we went to story time at the library and Shelly sat better than most of the other kids and absorbed everything she heard. This afternoon she was singing one of the songs, "I know an old lady who swollowed a fly." The storyteller sang this song differently than I'd heard it before, saying "perhaps she'll cry" in place of "perhaps she'll die." (Probably a good choice considering the young audience.) After Shelly sang this to herself a few times she turned to me and said, "I know why her cried, Mom." Oh yeah, why? "Because her ate all the animals. There were no more left." Of course!!

She has a great way of entertaining herself. At the grocry store as we waited in a REALLY slow line (some kind of technical difficulty or something) she just sat in the cart talking to herself, and singing, and generally providing smiles for all of us around her. Once we got into the car, though, she was done with waiting. I was checking my phone before I pulled out of the parking spot and Shelly said, "What's wrong Mom? Don't you want to go?" As I started to answer her, she interupted me to say, "Then GO!" She wasn't being disrespectful, and I couldn't help but laugh, ok, point taken!

Archer just showed me what he learned in school today - the lame dog walk. Sounds fun, wish I had been there to see 26 kids hopping around on 3 "legs"!

Shelly just walked up to me wearing her pink princess dress, "Do I look stylish Mom?" Of course Shelly, always!

We visited the museum to see the lego exhibit but the kids were much more excited by the animals and dinosaurs. I don't blame them, the legos weren't great.

On the way home Shelly sang her version of This Old Man, "with a picky pack paddy whack..." until there was a sudden silence - she had fallen asleep.

Archer wrote the letters H and O in the dirt on the back of my car. Fortunately I saw it before we left the garage...

Tonight was Movie Night and though I enjoyed the movie, the better part was cuddling with the kids. Earlier in the evening Shelly let me hold her and we danced and she rubbed her cheek on mine, so sweet. Before that, I dropped the stool on my foot and as I stood there silently Arch asked me if I was ok and then he fixed the stool. So proud. It was a good day.

Praise the Lord, O my soul...

Who satisfies your desires with good things so that your youth is renewed like the eagle's.
~Psalm 103:1-5