Sunday dress and hair and stuff

We thought Elle looked so cute and grown up today--
she put on her wedge sandals and dangly earrings, and then she REALLY looked all grown up.

Easy hair style today! No tears!

AND

We went to dinner at some friends' house and Elle lost a tooth on the pork roast :)

Fashion

Here's what Elle wore to school today

And

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HERE's what she wore for 80's day in Kindergarten.

She owns "silly bands" now instead of jelly bracelets, but basically same thing, huh?

I thought it was pretty ironic.

I even thought about giving Elle a side pony on top of making her pose funny today :)

Elle's Personal Narrative

Elle shared her Writing Journal with us this evening.
It's a personal narrative about her project with Grandma.

First, they got to do a comic-style version of it.

Now,
Here's the Actual Story:

"It just won't stay!" said Grandma as her rock started to slip off the other rock she was trying to glue it to.
I said, "That's alright." I was slowly and carefully painting a rock. After about an hour, I was done, and so was Grandma, so I went to get Mom to show her. When I told Mom to guess what I made she said all sorts of wrong answers.

"A mouse?"
no
"A cat?"
no
"A frog?"
NO
"A cat?"
nooo
"A. . .green dog?"
nooooo
A.. etc. etc. etc.
Finally, I told her it was a turtle! She said, "I was going to say that next!" I thought, "Ya, right!" but I didn't say so.
The End.

In my own defense, here's the turtle in question. Okay, okay, so he has stuff missing from him but still . . .
I missed the stripped back shell and green color.
Next time, I'll just ask ;)

Climbing Walls, and making noodles

Elle noticed the space in between the wall and our closet, and started getting ideas. I'm not sure how long she'd been contemplating this, but she finally asked if she could try climbing it.




I couldn't resist saying, "Yes." After all, What kid is there who hasn't done the same thing, or at least something like it?


I admit that I was encouraging her to climb as high as she could ;)

In other news. . .

We made noodles last night!

For Activity Days last week, we went to a real French Chef in our ward, and she taught us how to make them!

Elle and I were excited to make them ourselves.

Chris was game, and we wanted to buy a pasta machine, but then we decided just to roll it out by hand.

Elle and I rolled it out then rolled it up and sliced it like you do cinnamon rolls.

Chris rolled it out then painstakingly (and perfectly) sliced each strand.

We threw it all in together.

So fun! And so yummy!

Sunday dress and hair/a great thing about Fast Sunday

Since it was Fast Sunday, we had a little more time this morning before church. I played with Elle's hair, and Chris started some fancy bread. I'm pretty excited to taste it! (I'm sure It'll be extra good since we've been fasting all day :))

Anyway, I told Elle to put on her baptism dress so I could do her hair. She didn't hesitate at all, just said, "OK!"

I'm so glad because I've been wanting to fix her hair ever since last night when I was watching P&P with some friends. (short version)

When I saw Lizzy's hair at the ball, I was all inspired to do something fancy with Elle's hair.

Of course pictures can't really do it justice, but you get the idea.
Here's how cute she looked from the front.

And how cute she looked from the back.

And a close-up.

It amazingly stayed put through all three hours of church!
It's so fun having a girl!!

Yea! Go Cougars!

Guess who won the WA vs BYU game?!!

Exciting Things!

Exciting thing #1

First Day of School!


Today was the first day of 4th grade!
It was appropriately wet and rainy to welcome fall.
Chris stayed home for the morning so we could all walk to school together.
The whole school meets in a new place this year--under some shelter away from the rain.
It was a little crazy with the whole school + parents+ siblings crammed into the tiny space, but in the end, we saw Elle off happily talking to one of her friends on the way.



We finally went shopping Saturday for some new duds, and Elle put this outfit together for the first day.
She likes her teacher, and thankfully, has some friends in her class. One of her BFF's is in the adjoining room, so that's great too!
The class went on a tour of the school so they'd know how to get around from their classroom.
They had PE with a new PE teacher.
Elle was a little disappointed with him because he didn't seem as young or as fun as last year's.
She did, however, enjoy the game they played, so there's hope.
In class, they had a get-to-know-you activity with a roll of toilet paper.
While the teacher read a story to the class, she passed around a roll and told them to "take as much as they think they need"
Elle took 4. Her friend took 13.
For each square, they told something about themselves.
(I can't remember what Elle told, but I know two of the 4 things were about piano)
This year, they get to play at recess first, then eat lunch. That way, they get the whole lunch period to eat. (unlike last year when they got dismissed for recess early if they were good. Elle's table was so good, she often came home starving because she didn't get to finish lunch).
There wasn't any homework today, thank goodness, so Elle and I sat and talked about her day while she ate her snack.
She said it was a great first day of 4th grade.




Exciting thing #2

We Bought a Piano!

After months of searching, we finally found a piano on Craig's list.
The couple we bought it from was so nice and friendly.
The piano was in excellent condition, and hardly out of tune!
You wouldn't think we'd manage to fit a piano in our house, but we replaced our black computer desk with a big, black piano!
All three of us have had fun playing and (in some cases [I won't name who], banging) on it!
Elle did her piano practicing on it this morning before school!







Exciting Thing #3
We Have a Ripe Tomato on Our Tomato Plant!

We bought a little tomato plant in June, and it's been fun watching it grow bigger and bigger.
It has tons of little grape tomatoes on it.
Today, one was finally red enough to pick.
Elle had the honor of plucking it.
We cut it into three tiny pieces so we could all taste the fruit of our labors.
(Ok, so really, we just planted the thing and watered it, but still. . .)
It was delicious.
Nothing like fresh produce from your own home.

AND
I'm sure we'll have plenty more exciting things to come this year!