Today is “Crazy Sock Day” at school in honor of Dr. Seuss’s birthday. Bryan (who woke us up by blaring Rebecca Black’s “Friday”) made the girls green eggs to celebrate.
Archive for the ‘Ava’ Category
23 Feb
Red letter day
As I walked past the calendar earlier this week, I noticed someone had added an item for next Monday…
Ava’s classroom earned their “Happy People” award, which I believe entails adding something to a jar every time a class member does…something happy? I need to figure out the details, but the bottom line is that the class voted for a “bring your parents to school” day for their collective reward. The teacher quickly noted a 20-30 minute visit would be sufficient. And here I was looking so forward to PE class…
13 Feb
Overheard
Ava: “I am going to start a new morning routine. I’m going to get up when you and Dad get up. I’m going to get dressed really fast. Then, I’m going to work out for a bit, have some breakfast and then read the paper. Maybe have a cup of decaf coffee. We do have decaf, right?”
23 Jan
Beauties and the Beast
I took Princess Tiana and Snow White to see Beauty and the Beast on Sunday. While I’m not a fan of this 3-D business, it was great to see this movie again. Both girls were spellbound the entire film.
16 Jan
Overhead
Ava, in a colossal understatement: “I have a lot of questions.”
Olivia: “If you stand on a mountain to talk to the moon, you might hear an echo.”
15 Jan
Rock chalk!
I bought season basketball tickets last fall, which is perhaps the best bad decision I’ve ever made. We’ve had a great time trekking out to the weekly games over the past couple of month. On Saturday, we also had Bryan’s company tickets, so we took the girls with us. Despite trailing behind Iowa State for most the game, the Jayhawks secured another win. Here are few shots from the day.
12 Jan
Chocolate Layer Cake
Two notes about this very traditional chocolate layer cake, made from Martha Stewart’s super easy, one-bowl chocolate cake and chocolate buttercream recipes: First, layer cakes are apparently the hip, new thing, and second, they always remind me of a sentiment I share with my girls — “I love you more than cake.”
When Ava hears this, she rolls her eyes, and says, “MOM. You should say, ‘I love you more than the earth,’ because without the earth, you wouldn’t be here, and I wouldn’t be here, and there CERTAINLY wouldn’t be cake.”
When I say this to Olivia, the look on her face tells me that she loves cake enough to truly understand and appreciate just how I feel about her.
10 Jan
A Christmas Story
Shortly after Ava arrived home from the last day of school in December, I found this little package under the tree, and I swear my heart grew three sizes.
Then, later that same day, she searched frantically for a little missing snowman ornanament that was supposed to sit on top of this gift to her parents. She didn’t want to share too many details with us for fear of ruining the surprise, but she did leave this little note for Santa. It made my newly-enlarged heart sink:
Thankfully, Bryan found the ornament under the car in the garage on Christmas eve—she must have dropped it on her way in the house. We tucked the note away, but Santa found it and left a short response, much to sweet Ava’s surprise.
We did indeed like the present—a cute little storybook Ava created on her own at school. And, that snowman ornament will happily hang on our tree each Christmas, a reminder of how thoughtful and generous a six year old can be.
6 Jan
Christmas morning
The girlies woke up pretty early Christmas morning—Ava was up before the sun. She scoped out Santa’s spoils before heading back up stairs to rouse her sleepy sister.
The girls tore into their gifts, with grandparents and an aunt and soon-to-be uncle watching (while downing coffee–it was early!).
Highlights of the morning included doorbells for the girls’ rooms (what was Santa thinking?!) and a “Let’s Play School” set that has already elicited hours of joint play.
Many thanks to our family members for joining us in Kansas. We all headed back to Nebraska that morning to join other celebrations—we had a great week of travels!
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