When is Baby Coming?

Hey Everybody!  Ellen Here!

A LONG time ago Mama told us that she was going to have a baby, and we have been patiently waiting for her to come, for WAY too LONG!!!!!!!  But Mama said that is about to change.

Today she decided to update our calendar for January and Daddy decided it would be fun for us to take guesses about when baby is coming, Mama said it was going to be one of the days on the calendar.

The doctor's guess is that the baby will come on the 29th, but we made the following guesses:

• January 12th - Ellen
• January 15th - Daddy
• January 16th - Linden
• January 18th - Mama

We'll see who is closest!  We can't wait!
Ellen

Wanna Go Skate?

Hey Everybody!  Ellen Here!

Today Mama and Daddy asked, "Girls, do you wanna go skate?" I wasn't sure what that meant, but Linden sure was excited so I decided I'l go along too.

A few weeks ago we went to the skate shop and rented skates so when Daddy pulled them out of the bag I was REALLY excited!  Mama and Daddy helped me get my skates on and laced up nice and tight.

Because it was my first time, Daddy thought I should wear my bike helmet.  I thought it was kind of silly because I wasn't going to ride my bike, but Daddy said that I had to wear it so I did.

When I first got on the ice it was REALLY slippery and I was sliding all over the place holding Daddy's hand.  I was trying really hard, but I was not having a lot of fun.

Linden, on the other hand, was having a GREAT time.  She took skating lessons last year so she is a pro.

She had a friend who was new to skating so she helped her friend out by pushing her around and helping her learn to glide.

After a while a blue pusher opened up so Daddy let me give it a try.  Once I got to use that, I was having a BLAST gliding and sliding all over the ice.

Mama said that I am too brave, and a little over confident, I don't know what that means.  By the end of our time there I was trying to skate around without holding on at all!

Poor Mama couldn't come on the ice today, she said it was too dangerous for baby in case she fell, so she sat on the side and took pictures of us.

When we were done Mama asked if I had fun, I replied, "No, it was too dangerous, I didn't like it".  She thought it was a pretty silly answer because I was one of the last kids off of the ice.

I sure hope we get to come back soon, we all had a great time!
Ellen

Home Designers

Hey Everybody!  Ellen here!

Christmas is my favorite time of year, and this weekend we got to decorate Gingerbread Houses!!

Mama got us these cute little houses, tubes of frosting, and TONS of candy.  Linden said that we shouldn't eat the candy, but I was quite certain that she was just teasing me.

Decorating houses is a very serious job, and Mama made sure to get lots of pictures.

Off to bed, I'll have to tell you about our cookie baking a different night.

Ellen

It's Science Time!

It's that time of year again, time for the Science Fair!!  

I don't know why, but once again this year the letter got sent home for the science fair and Mama did not seem nearly as excited about it as I did...None the less, Mama and Daddy and I got to work coming up with the perfect project.

This year was a little rocky...our first science project was to see if the color of the water would affect the temperature.  It was a really great idea that Daddy found, I got to use food coloring, and a thermometer, but unfortunately it never got sunny out so we couldn't set the jars outside to see if anything would happen.

We gave that project several tries and then Mama came up with the idea to see if the color of the water would affect the color of a flower.  I wasn't super excited at first because I wanted something that we could do in a night, I wasn't in the mood to wait around for days to see if a flower would change color, but we were out of time so I agreed to do it.

Once again, the project started off a little rocky.  First we could only find white carnations, and they were SLOW and barely changed color.  Next Daddy found white button mums, they were a little faster but still didn't get very colorful.  Then, Daddy came home with the best flowers yet, white daisies!!  They were perfect.

I put three flowers in each color (red, yellow, and blue) for a day, then I took two of the flowers and moved them to another jar for another day.  I was really surprised when the colors mixed together and made secondary colors!  This project turned out to be pretty fun, I got to use the stuff we are learning about in art and applied the color wheel here.

Putting together my display board was a lot of work, and a LOT of writing.  but i think it turned out pretty great.

On Thursday the judges came around and asked me about my project.  They could tell that I put a lot of hard work into it, and said that I did a great job presenting it.  In the end, first graders don't really get judged, but we all got really cool ribbons.  I was very proud of all of my hard work.

Off to bed, another fun day is waiting for us tomorrow!
Linden