Birthday Posts

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At this moment, Photobucket has lost some of my photos since their last "maintenance update", but I have contacted them, and hopefully I won't have to do some duplication work.

You're 8!!!!

Happy Birthday, Darling Boy.

Will post the birthday celebration posts in the next few days.

Watch This Space :)

Grade 2 Week 24

What with all the Lego Batman craze at this point back in time, I was glad to find The Essential Guide!

I try to keep the books that we borrow quite diverse, and you just absorb it all in like a sponge.

I mean, to go from Western Tall Tales to Eastern Celebrations to everything in between.

We borrowed a book on Shadow Play, and you were eager to try out the different hand positions.  We had a wonderfully brilliant setting sun coming through one of the windows, just right for making shadow puppets. :)

Then there was all the Punxsutawny Phil business :)  Daddy made sure you watched Groundhog Day this year, and we all enjoyed it very much. I love the expression on the Guy in The Top Hat's face, looking down at Phil, who seems to be motioning his verdict :) Also, there is TREASURE and FOSSILS underground in the dirt/cross section view :) I LOVE the thought and creativity that went into this little picture / poster.

You asked for a craft, and we tried to come up with one that you hadn't previously done.  This one that we came up with was similar to the ones you had done before, but you enjoyed it nevertheless,

and it turned out pretty adorable.

BUT not as adorable as this little boy who offered to help me change the sheets during one of our breaks.

You currently love to draw, especially what seems to be story boards, or whole stories in a picture :) Love the imagination and creativity.

Grade 2 Week 23

Hurray, More Books! We had some pretty funny ones this week :)

It was the Chinese New Year season, and so you asked me for some red paper and went off to construct your own huge lantern/firework thingy.

You have been doing quite a bit of that lately - using paper, sticky tape and glue to make all kinds of craftiness :)

We had some leftover CNY stickers from some years ago, which you used to make a Chinese New Year card.

and we made fortune telling dragons, which you had a grand time playing with. :)

Happy to Oblige

Jaxon : "Mommy, can you make this for lunch?"

Mommy : "Let's see what we can come up with..."

et, voila!