October 31, 2011

  • Happy Halloween

     

    TALES FROM THE BRAT FARM

    Happy Halloween all you ghosts, goblins and super moms.  When I had originally asked Chewlee what she was going to be for Halloween, she told me she was going to be a scary apple!  I laughed when she crouched down and demonstrated how she was going to *walk* while she was in a round apple costume.   Alas!  It was not to be.  Today, after school, her mother  got her all dressed up as an adorable Tinkerbell. 

    One difference was Chewlee wanted face paint on her even if Tinkerbell didn't have any and the Princess satisfied her without too much by putting some scroll-y thing on both sides of her face.  She also got some glitter spray in her hair (and it got on her face and shoulders, too, of course) but she looked adorable.  Chewlee loved her wings most of all and kept looking in the full-length mirror; front first then half turned around so she could see the back.  Off they went and they are meeting up with some friends and going to a mall in Gadsden, I believe.  It will probably take WEEKS to get the glitter out of Chewlee's hair.  Chewlee won't care, of course.  She is enough of a little girl that she likes looking pretty and glitter is pretty to her. 

    I ordered this activity/learning set for Chewlee and the Beast made the comment that she was going to be one smart kid by the time she gets into kindergarten.  She is already very bright and her teachers have all commented about it many times over.  The set is called *Early Learning Fun*.  It has write and erase early learning cards, a ready to write practice pad,, a write and erase marker, a large book with puzzles to solve (memory puzzles), an  A,B,C chart plus a Reward Chart with stickers that you use whenever the child masters one of the lessons.   I think she will enjoy it.  There is also a CD that has a book that goes with it that focuses on pronunciation.  I will let you know how it goes.  I figure we will work on something for 15-20 minutes every day (no TV but after her snack).  That should be long enough.

    The Beast hooked up the utility trailer to the car today and had me verify that the brake lights and turn signals worked.  One didn't at first but he worked on it and got it going so he's all set to pick up the paneling now.  He loved the backup camera feature on the new car to help hook it up although he said it was a bit of a wide angle and made him look further away from it than he thought.  He'll get used to it, I'm sure.

    He also washed the car after getting it dirty from the quick trip to NC.  He told me he had used some kind of shine spray on the inside.  I was barely listening at the time since I had to call the doctor's office to find out why they hadn't sent his new blood pressure prescription to the pharmacy.  He is as bad as a kid with that kind of stuff. 

    Love you all.  Hope you had a fun Halloween.