I forgot to post the message from my Mother's Day card from DS7--just saw it again and had to share. Only here would anyone understand this.



Actually written with divide sign and superscript, but I can't make it do that here. LOL!

Love all the new brags!

JJ: it sounds like you have a well-rounded son there and making the all stars' team is a big deal. I remember my cousins and the joy and accomplishment they felt when they made the team.

Cawdor: You will have to let us know what his next project is ... can only imagine he will be looking to do even more complex ones after the radio!

Nautigal: Thanks for sharing the mother's day card. I love her choice of power. It made me giggle.

Yes, great stories, love the one about Bear's work wowing the high school teacher, Wyldkat!

We visited the family night for the gt pull out program my ds9 is in, and got to view the various centers he's been working on, and the group roller coaster project. He learned a lot about gears and built a cool target game with a lego engineering center which he really enjoyed. He is now speeding through a Mythology center to wrap up the year on a 'high' as mythology is a big favorite for him. He is very excited and doing really well. Best of all his anxiety about being perfect at school has substantially subsided, I am not sure why, but he is much much more relaxed if he doesn't get an 'A' on something.

Dd4 is becoming a very polite reasonable little girl, compared with the last several months of 'No No No', so I am really proud of her maturity and willingness to listen more and more often. It is such a relief.

I was pretty impressed when my 5 yr old finished the first two 'Diary of a Wimpy Kid' books in a week each...until he finished the next two in a day each! He's a little dismayed that he needs to wait until fall for the next one.

Ds6 told me today he wants to study spiders when he grows up so we looked up what that was called. Arachnologist. I asked him if he wanted to write that down. Of course, he didn't because he hates to write. Dd3, as usual, chimes in and says that she wants to write it (she is really excited about it too) so I get out a piece of paper, write the word out and she proceeds to write ARACHNOLOGIST on her paper as if she writes such words all the time. I am completely floored by how much she loves to write things. It's tough when you have one that absolutely hates doing something and then to have little sister come along and do things with such ease - they are both really smart but she is going to give him a run for his money.

DS4 and I have a game where we'll go back and forth for a while like this:

"I love you"
"I love you too"
"I love you three"
"I love you 40 million" etc...

Usually it's just random numbers until we get to billions of googols or infinity. But yesterday, it went like this:

DS: "I love you 11"
Me: "I love you 22"
DS (catching on): "I love you 33"
Me: "I love you 44"...

We went all the way to 198 before I had to skip ahead to a million--mental math was never my strong suit. :-)

I really like this idea because I'm finding the same problem!

I'm proud of my almost 5 yr. old daughter's ability to do so many things. It's great that she is sitting at my husband's computer perusing the Nick Jr. website for games while I'm bragging about her here! :o)

This isn't much of a brag, but I can't find the "kids say the darnedest things" (or whatever it was called) thread any more...

We went to a military re-enactment event on the long weekend, and at one station, people were teaching children semaphore. When it was Groucho's turn (he's 6), the gentleman asked him what he wanted to spell, and Groucho said, "Well, 'nonchalant' has always been one of my favourite words." For some reason, this really cracked me up!

My 12 year old son and I went to a homeschool spelling bee yesterday. He was nervous not because he didn't know all the words, but because he competed at state level a few years ago and misspelled what he thought was an easy word. He had never misspelled the word before. He called what happened a glitch. He was worried that it might happen again. He told me he would much rather sing a solo on stage than do this, but he decided to try it.

When they finally called his group up on stage there was no outward sign of anxiety. Instead, he seemed to exude confidence. There was no glitch this time. He won. He conquered the glitch and he had a nice trophy to add to his collection.

He also found out that he got the part of Mr. Mayor in Seussical. He was very happy about it and I wish I'd had the camera when I first told him. He said he didn't really want to play the part of the little boy, even though he liked the song "Alone in the Universe" that he auditioned with. He was in the age range to play JoJo, but he just doesn't seem like a little boy any more after the last growth spurt. He is almost as tall as I am.

This past weekend was our dance recital for DD (3 1/2). She has been in ballet and tap for the past 2 years but this was to be her first real recital on a stage, with lights and production. I've been a little nervous about it, especially since she invited all the grandparents and in the past she was literally deer caught in headlights. Boy what a difference a year makes. Saturday was dress rehearsal and the only day we, the parents, were allowed to record. She was great; did all of the routine. The next day was the actual recital and she fell asleep in the car right before we got there so I was concerned that she wasn't going to do as well. She did wonderfully and though she was technically better the day before; we really saw her personality on that stage. She was super excited for the jump and almost jumped at the wrong time but realized her mistake and transitioned back into the routine with no problems, but you could see the excitement building on her face and when it was finally time to jump she was beaming from ear to ear. I couldn't be prouder of her.