Chinatown

Heather and I went to Chinatown shopping today. Always seem to find things that say "buy me." Purses and bags are the best items but we also got reindeer antlers for Samantha's Christmas play costume and flowers for Thanksgiving.
Mathew, Samantha's friend, is going to be an elf. His Mom borrowed a costume and we found the cutest elf shoes with curled toes for him. Problem was........when she opened them, it was a jester hat that was folded in half and just looked like elf shoes! Oh well, sometime, someone will be a jester!


Still have not caught the rat - think our screams scared him away! - or found canned pumpkin for Thanksgiving - may have to make apple pie.

I helped Samantha with her homework tonight. I'm amazed at how well she reads. Her assignment was to read a book, describe where the story took place, name it's main characters and then summarize the storyline. The book she chose was about dinosaurs - I had to use my computer to look up how to pronounce one of them - pterosaur!

Emily knows all the alphabet but says them by sound not name. She sounds out a word like "cat" and then makes other words using different letters - "bat" - "sat" etc. She can even add a fourth letter to some. She was trying to spell "Sponge Bob" so she could type it in the Ipad and watch the cartoon but, got stuck on the silent "g!" She's 4!!!!