On Friday night, Stella & I headed down to the Blue Moon. The Back Porch Band was playing. Todd met us there later. The girl had a blast. Her Japanese friend, Takeshi was there. He brought her a new Beanie Baby named Shivers. It's an orange bear ghost. She LOVED it! She crashed on Daddy during the last song. We got her home and into bed with no trouble.
Saturday morning, Stella and her daddy made pancakes and eggs. Very yummy. After breakfast we loaded up the wagon and walked downtown to the annual Fall Art Festival. Stella apparently didn't get enough sleep, as she was rather cranky...very unlike herself. We did have one funny moment. One of our artist friends (who doesn't have kids) asked what she's been up to. We told him she's into the human body right now. He then asked her where her nose was. She just about rolled her eyes at him, but pointed to her nose. Then he asked about her elbow. She humored him. Then I asked her "Stella, what hangs down in the back of your throat?" She smiled, yelled "uvula!" and opened wide so we could all see. Our artist friend then said something about Stella must think he's really lame....lol.
On Sunday we went to my sister's house. Stella's cousin, Ben, was having a birthday party. He's 10 already! There were a few other cousins there...they (including Stella) were 3, 10, 11 and two 13 year olds. It was fairly peaceful. The big kids played nicely with Stella, but didn't stress her out by calling her name constantly, which is what has happened in the past.
After the party, we headed back to town and went to the movie theater. It was Stella's first time. Todd and I hadn't been to the theater in 8-10 years. We went to see Wallace & Gromit: Attack of the Were-Rabbit. It was GREAT! Stella did really well. We had great seats, in that there was a lot of room for her to move around without bugging anyone. She'd be watching, then she'd say "I really like this movie." When she was sitting in her seat, she looked SO tiny. She doesn't have enough "leg" to hold the front of the seat down very far. We had to keep readjusting her.
This week, we're going to be reviewing the letters that we've worked on (A-D) and reading/studying/playing with the book "Caps for Sale". Our friends, Melissa, Annmarie and Avereigh in NC are going to be doing the same book this week. | 