End of School

Tomorrow is the last day of school! Then we have summer vacation. Mom is hoping they add a lot more episodes of Phineas and Ferb, because even she's seen every episode, because Josh watches it all the time while we're at school and we usually want to watch it after school. I'm personally hoping that they put on more of the shows I like. Everyone in my class will probably start crying when the bell rings because Mrs. Payne is so awesome and she won't be our teacher anymore. Tear. SCHOOL IS ALMOST OVER!

Violin Recital

This is a video of my violin recital Saturday. I played Minuet No. 2 by Bach. My wonderful teacher ( and "hired big sister") Kaitlin was the one who got me in the recital. I'm her only student and so we weren't going to get to do a recital, but her teacher was having a recital for her students and she said it was okay for me to be in it. I was nervous, but it was really fun.

Memorial Day 2011

Happy Memorial Day!

Josh's Preschool Graduation

Today was Josh's preschool graduation. He was too cool for words throughout. He did almost the entire program with his hands in his pockets. Each kid did a little thing for one of the songs. Josh was in charge of doing the puppets for Five Little Monkeys. He was very focused on his little puppets. His teacher was Miss Tammy, the same lady who taught Matt for preschool. The entire program was very cute. One little boy throughout the entire thing was jumping up and saying something like, "Awesome!" or, "Thank you!" Matt was just about ready to strangle him!

Josh and Miss Tammy

Josh in his graduation cap

Josh doing Five Little Monkeys

More Five Little Monkeys

Part of the program

Old Yeller

As our last class book for the year Mrs. Payne read us Old Yeller. The last book we read was Where the Red Fern Grows. Today we finished reading Old Yeller. It is one of my favorite books ever, even if I do always cry at the end. We will be watching the movie soon, which I hate. I hate the movie because they screwed up the already sad ending and made it even sadder. Either way, Old Yeller is a great book.

The Latest Dance Craze Is...

THE PUPPY DANCE! It is also the cutest dance EVER! This is what happens at home while I'm at school. The puppy in question is named Chocolate and has not been questioned on the matter.

Josh's friends

This is Josh and his little friends Gage and Beck. Beck moved away a while ago, but Gage is still here. Gage is the one on the far left, then Beck, then Josh. CUTENESS ATTACK!

More videos!

Yet another elusive dig it play video! This is the Greek scene, and it has me in the Greek Chorus and Tailor as Herodotus. Tah dah!

Books

These are the latest two books I've read. They are both some of my favorites.

First up is The Girl Who Could Fly by Victoria Forester. The main character is Piper McCloud who has, at random moments, floated around since birth. One day she decides to teach herself to fly instead of just float by jumping off the roof of her house. Many complications in the plot result from this, and she ends up going to I.N.S.A.N.E. which stands for Institute of Normalcy, Stability, And NonExceptionality. I.N.S.A.N.E. is a secret school for children with unusual gifts like Piper's. Piper's new friends can do things like make their own weather and shrink to the size of a leaf. This is one of my favorite books of all time, and I read it at least once a year.


The other book is our Mother/daughter book club book, Fairest by Gail Carson Levine. This is one of my FAVORITE books! It is about Aza, who thinks she is ugly but is an extraordinary singer. She gets a chance to go to the king's wedding, but after the wedding the king is injured and the new queen blackmails Aza. LOVE this book!

And thats all for now.

Dig it video

My mom got one of the elusive Dig it play videos to load. This is us singing the first half of "The land Between Two Rivers," the song for Mesopotamia. At the very end you can hear a boy talking really fast, he IS actually saying something, but the only people who actually know what it is are the teachers.