Danny and Rachel's different perspectives

In Kindergarten at our school, the kids learn site words by taking a test on 25 words at a time. Then they earn a dog tag for each set of 25 words, up to 200 words. Danny did it last year and only he and one girl earned all eight dog tags by the end of the year. Both he and the girl never missed a week, they passed and moved on to the next set of words every time.

Now Rachel is working on earning her dog tags. She's earned three so far. But she missed one week because she said come when the word was came. She was ok with that and worked harder the next week. But there's one boy in her class named Aaron who hasn't missed a week yet and is one dog tag ahead of Rachel. Last week when they came home from school on the day of testing Danny asked Rachel if she passed. She did. Then he asked if Aaron passed. She didn't know. Then Danny said, "Maybe he missed it and then you'll catch up to him!" Rachel replied that she didn't want Aaron to mess up, she wanted him to do well also. Danny didn't quite get her mentality. He's always well aware of how far ahead of the other kids he is. While Rachel is happy for everyone to do well even if she isn't first.

New pictures

The kids got their pictures taken this week. I keep recent pictures of the kids on the wall and we were missing Seth, so I got them in for pictures. We like the fact that Aaron is the only one not missing teeth.

The Week in Review

Here's Seth working out the neck muscles:
Three boys on couch:

Two boys on couch:


One boy on couch:

One boy in a box seat (we have nice neighbors) at the Mountain West Conference Basketball Championship game (stinkin' utes won). Danny didn't want to go until I told him that I would get him a Sprite. He was all for going after I promised him a tasty beverage. Boys.

More commentary from Rachel on the loss of her first tooth:

Today's Math Lesson . . .

is brought to you by Danny and Rachel:

Danny + Danny = 2 Dannys

Rachel + Rachel = 2 Rachels

Heart + Heart = 2

And that's math.

Rachel Loses Her First Tooth

This girl is brave. She had been asking me for days to pull her tooth, but I would talk her out of it figuring that the tooth wasn't ready to pop. Finally I gave in the other night and offered to remove her first tooth. I remember my dad offered the same services when I was 7 or 8 but I was too afraid to take him up on it.

She came and woke us up in the middle of the night. She stood by the side of the bed flashing a big grin and waving her two dollars and a note from the tooth fairy telling her how brave she was and that she did a great job.

She now joins the elite company of Danny 'The Nearly Toothless Wonder' and Seth 'The Totally Toothless Wonder'. I wonder if Aaron feels left out?

Sunday - Through the Eyes of Rachel

Rachel loves to write. She's pretty new to it, but that doesn't deter her from being a prolific writer.

We'd like to share with you one of her recent works entitled What Hapind Today.

Title Page: What hapind today.
Page 1: We whet to charch.

Page 2: We made papre ear plans.

Page 3: We whent to the charesar (treasure) box. Charesar box (illustration label). The whent to all the ci's. (Not sure what that last sentence means)

Here's what the actual charesar box looks like. Not too bad, Rachel. Not bad at all. . . .

Not Gonna Tell You

Aaron will do well as a parent. When his children began to ask him questions that he might not know the answer to, he will at least be able to respond by using the indefinite delay tactic of saying "Not gonna tell you."



Lately, he's been getting a lot practice with this technique. See for yourselves. . .

Aaron's school

I do some little preschool lessons with Aaron a couple days a week. Last week we learned about Native Americans. The lesson went over really well. We made some Indian Fry Bread as part of the lesson. Danny and Rachel even wanted to get in on the fun.