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 Sunday, Ted performed for us (Daddy and I) a ‘Rain Dance Play’ that he’d been working on for some time. Maddy was an enthusiastic co-star. The idea for the play was based on the rain dance episode of Little Bear, one of Ted’s favorite shows and book series. He went all out, making up a dance, and memorizing the words to the song, and even creating an enormous backdrop of blue construction paper squares for a sky and white construction paper clouds. (This was taped outside to the wall.) During his preparations, which were several weeks in the works, it came to light that Ted thought his rain dance would truly cause it to rain. This led to an interesting discussion, and an explanation that only God could make it rain, but that Ted could certainly pray and ask. So he ended his rain dance with a prayer, and then we went and turned on the sprinkler so the kids could run around in our impromptu ‘rain’ … they had a blast!

That evening the children’s choir had a ‘listening party’ with snacks, to listen all the way through the chosen Christmas pageant program. Teddy liked it, and decided he wanted to participate. (My rule is, he can do choir if he likes, or not, but once they start rehearsing for a program, he must choose and then stick it out till the program is over.)

For part of our Corduroy activities, we were going to learn to sew buttons (a Tiger Cub elective), but this ended up being postponed. Our schoolwork was pretty straightforward. Ted had a dentist visit, and then another to fill a cavity. We went to the library twice, once for our regular storytime (about squirrels), and once for Jumpstart’s Read for the Record event, featuring Corduroy this year. (www.readfortherecord.org)

And another thrill for the kids, Jennifer brought over some of her music equipment and let the kids record CD’s of them singing songs.

October also began the Pizza Hut reading program, BookIt!