Rebekah's Works

In school Rebekah is working on writing a story.

She also brought this home a little late, but still - raising money - is a good new years resolution. 

I spent the first part of February cleaning out drawers. I found an old notebook containing our early writing attempts. Hard to see but still fun to remember.

This one says I love you 100,000,000 and so forth.

Early attempts at letters.

Early attempt at words. At the end of the lesson I would have Rebekah practice reading out loud. So, she would say, "I want mama to eat my belly then tickle me" and I would promptly do it. Fun way to end a lesson. Ah, the good ol' days.

More early writing with new sentences interspersed. You can see her reading sentences if you look close. My favorite is "please spank my bum..." although I also thought, "mama warm your hands on my belly" was quite ingenious. 

A book Rebekah wrote.

"It was the morning of the big ball. You can marry a prince at the ball. It is a big responsibility." 

(the "it" on the top of the page is the last of "responsibility" from the page before.)

"You will love him. And play. Then you will eat. Well then you will have a baby. 

You will play with..." 

"...him or her. And feed it." 

"Hi, I am Rebekah. I love princesses. I also like playing school." 

My mom bought her fashion plates for Christmas. She has loved creating fashions. 

She has also created her own newspaper: 

She made this gem at activity days. Yes, you heard me: activity days. I swear she was just 2. 

A cute little snake.

At school she did a research project on the sloth. I think she did a great job with her handwriting and spelling, only misspelling princess in the about the author section, so I will not type out her words.

These are some reviews she got from the 4th grade class assigned to read her research paper. 

Ice Skating

As the ice skating adventure continued I was continually impressed on how much Rebekah had improved. The first lesson she could barely walk out on the ice and had to be constantly helped to even stand up. Now she is gliding along. 

Love my little happy girl.

Second to last class:

The final class came. Rebekah was concerned about passing the test to be in the next level. She happened to be the first person to test which made her nervous, but she did remarkably well. And.... 

To sum up:

Yee-Haw indeed!

Party / Never again

Rebekah was invited to a party for a little girl who use to live down the street from us. It was at this place called Urban Air. I knew it was not going to be an easy place for me but for Rebekah I would take one for the team. The day came and we entered the chaos. 

Kids running everywhere, loud music thumping, different florescent lights flashing, parents not caring.... yeah, it was a good time. But I did manage to get a few pictures. 

And finally:

Next time I'm "rock-paper-scissors"- ing Don for the full party experience. 

Cookie Time

We haven't been able to do our decorating cookie tradition with friends since we moved but this valentines I made it happen. I contacted three girls in Rebekah's ward and found a date that worked for everyone. Usually it's just a one friend gig but since we are new and wanted to get to know many girls we went big. 

While Rebekah was at school I got everything set up so after school Rebekah and I only had a few things to do. The girls came over a few minutes later and the decorating began. 

Took some individual pictures as well. 

One of the girls made a smily cookie. Love it.

When it came time for Rebekah's picture....

She wanted to taste test right away.

After they finished they went to play while I cleaned up piles of sprinkles. So many sprinkles. Parents came somewhat later and the girls took home their creations. Operation cookie decorate / make memories with new friends was a success.

After the girls left Rebekah was sad. However, Walmart saved the day by sending a text with the information her furreal kitty friend was ready for pick up. Rebekah has been saving her quarters until she had enough for this little gem. It took a long time and once she finally had the money I had to order it rather than just picking it up at the store. So when the text came in it totally turned around the mood. We promptly dropped everything and went to pick it up. It started meowing in the box which only served to make Rebekah more excited. Once we were home we got said kitty out to introduce her to her new owner and new home.

What a perfect way to end the Valentine's season.

Valentines

Rebekah's teacher sent home a paper stating she would need a decorated box for valentines day. My great ineptness at crafting makes me cringe every time things like this happen. But grammy helped out by covering the box in red and Rebekah and I put the rest of the decorations on it.

I have recently been toying with quitting Facebook but have never actually deleted the app on my phone. After Rebekah and I spent a lot of time on this box I went on to Facebook to get my messages and saw one of my friends posting a picture of the valentine box she made into a cute little unicorn. Yeah. I'm done with both crafting and facebook. It didn't help that when Rebekah came home that day she asked if next year she could buy her box like her friend Taylynn.

But back to valentines day.

We spent the last "snow day" making valentines for extended family and friends. During that time she made one for me:

After school on Tuesday she brought home one she made for Don:

Guess which parent makes Rebekah eat her veggies, drink water, do homework and chores...? Ah well. Better luck next time.

Valentine eve I fell asleep with Rebekah but woke around midnight. At that point I put Rebekah and Don's valentine together. Here's Rebekah's. That's Maximus, Rapunzel's horse to add to her princess collection.

The next morning:

Happy Valentines day indeed!