Chess Tournament

Saturday Lindsey was in a chess tournament at her school. She started to learn how to play chess through an after school chess club at her school. I cannot believe she is learning how to play chess. I tried to learn one day and was so confused!! She only won one game, but she was playing against kids older than her. She was upset that she only won one game, but Laurie explained to her that she was younger than all the kids and that some day she would be able to win like they did.

Book Character Dress Up Day

Friday was book character dress up day at Laurie and Lindsey's school. Laurie went as Emily Elizabeth and Lindsey was puppy Clifford. Lindsey wore all red with little red ears... she even had a black nose! That big red thing in the pictures is a big red backpack that is in their school library.

100th Day of School

This week Lindsey and Laurie had their 100th day of school. For homework for this day Lindsey had to do something with 100 things on it. She got a big piece of paper and took her stamps and put 100 stamps on the big paper. The picture you see is of a parade they had down the hall. Lindsey is wearing glasses that say "100".

Lindsey's Class Performs At Magnet Fair

This Saturday Lindsey's Kindergarten class performed at magnet fair at a local mall. Magnet fair is a place where parents can come to see if they want their child to go to a magnet school. They sang a song in front of a bunch of people. I was suprised that Lindsey actually did it! She is usually scared of performing in front of crowds.

Lindsey Crams One Month Of Reading Into One Night

Lindsey's teacher gives rewards (a pizza from Pizza Hut) to her students when they read 10 books in a month. Lindsey figured out that some of her classmates were reading all 10 books in one night so she wanted to do the same. We did NOT pressure her to do it. We actually had to tell her to stop reading that night so she could go to bed. So, first thing the next morning, instead of turning on Spongebob Squarepants like she usually does, she broke out her books on the couch and finished reading all 10!

Lindsey's Friends Come To Play

The week of Christmas some of our friends from college who were in town for the holidays came over to visit and brought their kids over to play with Lindsey. Makenzie is 2 and Andrew is 4. Notice Andrew is almost as tall as Lindsey, who is 6. But Andrew's dad is well over 6 feet tall! Despite the age rage of the three, they got along well!