Kitten, Come Home!!

I heard the worst news when I came home from school today...Kitten escaped and hadn't come home yet.  I was so sad, and very worried about him.  I wanted to do everything I could to help him find his way home.

After talking it through with Mama, I decided to make papers to put on our neighbor's doors.  I wasn't really sure what to put on a missing cat note, so I decided to put his name, and then decided that adding "pet" so people would know that he was a cat, not a person.

I even drew a picture of him so people would know what he looks like.

Later that evening he made his way home, I am certain it was because he found my notes!

We are so happy to have kitten back!
Linden

Santa Claus is Coming to Town

Happy Sunday!  This next week is going to fly by with lots of traveling, so we decided to start our Christmas traditions a little early.

It started earlier this week when Mama went shopping for our Christmas outfits.  She asked Ellen if she wanted a twirly dress, and Ellen said, NO WAY!  Ellen is not a twirly dress kinda girl, so Mama decided that this year would be more low key.  She found a pretty gold skirt and sweater for me...and a gold sweater and red leggings for Ellen.  I really liked the skirt, but when I saw the pretty Christmas dresses at Target, I was kinda bummed.  

Mama decided to switch gears and got me a pretty dress, and return my other outfit.  Ellen was still sure she wanted a "sweatshirt" and NOT a dress.  That is, until this morning.  She saw me in my pretty dress, with my curly hair and pretty barrette and she wanted in on the Christmas Magic!  So, off to Target we went.  Ellen even wanted a pretty clip in her hair.

We got to Macy's and decided to go straight to see Santa.  Ellen was so excited when we first got in line, but as we got closer to the door she started to look not so sure.  Once we got in there she was definitely a little worried, but once he asked her what she wanted for Christmas things started to turn around.  I told Santa that I want an art kit and a new mermaid tail.  Ellen wants a ball.  After that, we smiled for the camera and got our annual Santa picture. 

We had a great time seeing Santa's workshop, the elves are so cute and there is so much work to be done!  Thank goodness they take the time to make all sorts of yummy treats for us to enjoy, on top of all of their other work.

Have a great week!
Linden

Picnic in November?

What do you do when it is 58 degrees in November? You have a Picnic, of course!!  We have had a pretty amazing fall and have gotten to be outside playing a TON!  Tonight Mama decided to get some picnic food, and we walked to the park to eat and play.  It was fun until it started getting dark at 5:15, but that meant that we got to look at Christmas lights on our way home!

In other news, Ellen and I got to be Twin Sisters the other day.  I REALLY like getting to be twins, Ellen doesn't get quite as excited about it.  The really amazing part was that Mama was able to get her to change shirts after she was already dressed so we could match.  Ellen doesn't like change, and she doesn't like anything that isn't her idea, so this was REALLY big (notice we are standing on the foot rest, that was the only way Mama could get a picture of us standing next to each other...)

Tomorrow we are supposed to get a lot of snow, or maybe not, or maybe a little, or possibly rain.  The weatherman really has no clue :-)

Have a great night!
Linden

Jumpin' in OUR leaves!!!

Last week we posted that we got to go to our good friend's house for our annual Leaf jumping party...But tonight we got a great surprise...Our tree is finally big enough and has enough leaves, for us to jump in them!!

It wasn't a very big pile, so we hope Kaiya invites us over again next year, but I thought we should document it anyways.  Ellen and I had a great time running back and forth and throwing them up in the air.

Off to bed, not sure what we are doing tomorrow but I am sure it will be fun.
Linden

My Letter Book

Hey Everybody!  I haven't posted much about school, so I thought I would give a quick update.

I am absolutely in love with school.  If you were to ask me I would tell you that music and gym are my favorite classes, but I really love reading, math and art too.  

I go to Lincoln Elementary, and our mascot is the Roadrunner.  If we make good choices in class we get a Roadrunner card that we get to bring to the office and put in a bowl.  They use this bowl to draw names for prizes throughout the year.  So far, I have gotten 3 roadrunner cards!!

The first few weeks of class we worked really hard on creating our Letter Books.  Each day one student was picked to be the Letter Expert.  They got to bring in something for their letter, show the class how to write it, and tell the class what sound it makes.  I was the Letter Expert for Z, so I brought in a Zipper!

Once our books were complete the next goal was to read the book to our teacher and be able to tell her each letter, what sound the letter makes, and what word goes with that sound.  Once we could do that we got to bring our book home!  I was so excited to get to bring mine home last week and couldn't wait to show it to my Grandma and Aunties last weekend when we saw them.

It was really fun that P was for Peacock because it matched my Halloween costume.

Each page was a different letter and we got to draw a picture for each one.

School is pretty great.  I can't wait to keep learning more!
Linden