In Other News

LUKE continues to impress me with his mess-making abilities.  Not that he's alone.  I believe most toddlers can boast that they possess this super power.  But still, it is something to behold.  I took a series of pictures of Luke during lunch the other day and the transformation is crazy.  He started out happily feeding himself with a spoon for the first time.  Then he started using his hand to get the yogurt.  Then he tried to lick it out of the bowl.  And when I gave him a cup with a bit of water in it, he began putting noodles into the cup.  Also notice that by the end, he had yogurt in his hair.

ELIZA was hanging around Jack the other morning when he was trying to finish up a homework assignment before school.  In an effort to give her something to do to keep her busy (and keep her from distracting Jack), I asked her to draw pictures on lunch bags for Cat and Jack.  Eliza jumped right in and really enjoyed the task.  The big kids loved having specially decorated lunch bags, too. Cat's had balloons and Jack's (not pictured) was a race car.

I brought a few packs of toilet paper upstairs from the storage room and left them in the hallway, planning to divide them up between the two upstairs bathrooms.  Before I got around to it, JACK unwrapped all 3 packages and built a toilet paper tower.  He was so proud of himself, and though I did not get upset with him, I also didn't want to encourage him.  So I had to snap the picture really quickly before he saw me.  Then I asked him to reassemble the tower in the bathroom and throw away all of the trash.  He did it all very well.

CAT was excited to run for Scholar Council this year.  We looked at ideas for posters on Pinterest and found a few concepts she liked.  Then I took the picture of her talking to one of the school's Knights (which is their mascot) and she had a friend come help her make her posters.  She had 4 different posters and they all turned out great.  The Knight picture one is my favorite, though.  Unfortunately, Cat didn't win the election.  (One of her competitors RAPPED her speech.  How can you compete with that??)  Cat was sad at first but she's had a great attitude about it.  I'm sure she'll find plenty of other ways to keep herself busy this year.

Cat was excited about having her current teacher because she has a tradition of teaching her class the table clap chant and the cup song.  Today Cat's class performed the table clap for the whole school as part of the mini-assembly they do every Friday morning.