Episode 12 - My Puzzle Award

One of the requirements for graduating from Kindergarten is to be able to count to 100. So, to encourage all of us to learn to count to 100, Mrs. Riley, my teacher, said we could pick out the puzzle of our choice when we could do it.
Today, I did it!!!


This is the awesome puzzle I picked.
Mom said it was cool because it was a "color wheel". Whatever that means. I just thought it looked colorful, like a rainbow. I love rainbows!!

Here's me doing the puzzle.


Here's Cassee thinking she's helping me.


Ta da. I finished it! And all by myself. Sweet!

My mommy is so proud of me!

Episode 11 - Counting by 10's

This is me with my new awesome ability to count by 10's.
How many people can pinpoint the day they figured out how to count by 10's??
I can, Sept. 27th, 2009!!

Episode 10 - I'm a Broken Record

Today I learned a new song at music time at school. I sang it for my mom.....over and over and over and over and over... You get the picture, right?
It's a sing-songy chant (kind of like the "Trick or treat, smell my feet, give me something good to eat" chant). It goes like this:
"Billy Bad, Billy Bad, tell me why you are so sad."
"Cause my name is Billy Bad."
I'm sure you can see why my mom loved hearing that over and over (all evening long!) and over and over and over... Well, you get the picture.

Episode 9 - I Love Primary

I love to go to primary. We sing songs and get to color.
Today in my CTR 5 class, I learned about temples. I learned that you get married in them. You can also get sealed in them. And the number one rule I learned today about temples is that you keep your hands to yourself, just like at regular church.

Episode 8 - My Awesome Ability To Do My Own Hair!

Since I was little (and actually had hair) my mother has always insisted on doing my hair for me. Sometimes I like it, usually I don't. Usually I like lots of flower clips and other glittery or colorful accessories, but sometimes my mom thinks there a little too much. I've recently figured out how to wrap a band in my hair. Yeah for me! I like low ponytails. My mom puts them too high. (And of course I never pay attention to the color of the band!) Sometimes I put them on the side just for fun. And I like this awesome headband I found in my mom's stuff. She says it from Ecuador. It's a little big for my head and sometimes it falls, but it's awesome anyway.

This is my latest and greatest hair-do. I do this everyday, if I'm allowed!





OK, I just needed to make a few funny faces, just because it's so fun!



Hahahaha, now I'm done!

Episode 7 - I Like Math and Skirts

My mom always wants to know my favorite part of my day. Almost always I tell her coloring. We color everyday. We color everything.
Today I actually said something different, and it really surprise my mom. Not so much what I said, but the fact that I said something other than coloring.
I told her my favorite part of my day was doing the math paper. There were four pictures on each line and we had to cross out the one thing that didn't go with the others.
I like it. It's fun, because I like it. (Direct quote!)

Today I got to pick out my own outfit! I hardly ever get to do that. My mom usually says things like, "that doesn't match," or "it's too hot for those pants", or some other such thing. This morning my little brother was sick and mom wasn't paying much attention to me. Plus all my other clothes were in the wash!
I always want to wear a skirt, but I hardly ever get to. This is one of my favorites. There's just not a lot of shirts that go with it.
Sweet, I love it when I get to wear what I want!!

Episode 6 - The Letter M

This week we are learning the letter 'M'. (Last week was the letter 'S'.) I named off many things to my mother tonight at dinner that start with the letter 'M'. (She asked me how I knew them and I said it's because I sounded them out. See how smart I am now!)
Anyway, I told her this list: monkey, money, milk, and moose. On the back of my 'M' page where I drawed a bunch of M's, I had to draw something that started with an M. I drew two little circles and colored them silver. I had to tell my teacher they were money cause she didn't know.
The funnest part of my day was coloring the moose I did at school. Dad asked what a moose was. I told him it was brown and had horns. It's kind of like a dog, but a little bigger. I can't believe he doesn't know what a moose is!

Episode 5 - Emmee made a funny!

So the other day my mother says it's bath time. We all head to the bathroom. The tub is big enough for three little bodies, so we all take a bath together.
Of course warm water brings on "you-know-what", so we all have to use the toilet before she lets us get into the tub.
Since I'm bigger and faster, I beat Cassee to the toilet. While I'm sitting there Cassee is standing completely naked next to the door making her panicky noise and dancing like she can't wait to get on the toilet.
My mother, sitting on the little stool next to the tub, says, "Don't pee your pants, Cassee!"
I turn to Mom and say,"She can't pee her pants, she can only ... pee."
Mom starts laughing, "oh, because she's naked, right?"
I start laughing too. HAHAHA I'm so clever!

Episode 4 - The Library Dragon

Today at school I went to the library. We heard the story, "The Library Dragon". It's a story about a dragon and a little girl. The dragon lives in the library and doesn't let anyone touch the books. One day the dragon fell asleep. The little girl came to look for her glasses and a book fell on her lap. Then the kids heard storytime in the library from her. All the kids came to the library and the little girl started reading. Then the dragon woke up and heard her reading and she came over and stared at the girl and took the book away. The dragon sniffed it and she looked at the front cover and she looked at the pages to see if there was any boogers and snotty stuff. Then the Library dragon started to read the book. Then all her scales came off. Then she became into a nice library girl that was nice. The End. That's all I remember.

Commentary from the Producer

A week ago, or so, Emmalynn's teacher sent home a workbook for her to do on her own. Emmalynn didn't have school today, it was a professional development day for the teachers. Emmalynn was really excited to not have to go to school, yet all morning she wanted me to help her do a page in her book. (school, as she called it) Finally we sat down and she made a bar graph. (I think it was mostly for the skittles.) She got a 100%. What a smart child!

Here she is working hard to color in the graph.



She gets a handful of skittles everyday in her lunch. I guess she just didn't want to be jipped today with no school.



Here's Cassidee watching, wishing she could "do school" too.

Episode 3 - The Number 10

Today I had this conversation with my mother.
Mom: What did you learn in school today?
Me: We learned the number 10 today.
Mom: How did you learn the number 10?
Me: It's easy, you just do a straight down with a circle around. Only it's not together. It's just a zero with a little one. Just watch me do it on my lap, MOM. I'll teach you.