Violet - Fall 2013

Violet is almost 8!  Almost.  I will enjoy her being 7 for nine more weeks. 

She's going through second grade very well!  She's reading very well, working on math problems like 85-49 and learns to correctly spell 20 words a week.  She made a birdfeeder yesterday at school and I helped her climb a ladder outside and hang it in the tree.  Of course, its brightly rainbow colored.  She is very creative.  She made a coloring book herself by asking me to print some coloring pages on the computer.  She decorated the cover herself.  She and her friend Casey have thought up to make a Thanksgiving journal they will trade having and write in it things they will do for Thanksgiving coming up.  Her favorite friends at school are Selah, Alexis, Casey, Reagan, and Ashley.

My mind comes up with things about Violet and here are some:
- She loves dresses.  She likes wearing dresses/leggings to school and if none are clean, that's when she will pull out the pants and polo shirts.  
- She loves honey bunches of oats for breakfast. 
- She sleeps on the top bunk in the girls room and is surrounded with 5 pillows and her blankets.  She doesn't have a top sheet or comforter - those things get in her way of the "nest" she created.  She got some new warm pajamas recently and has her cozy Dora blanket she uses to cover up with if she feels cold.  Up in her bed is a Kleenex box and her alarm clock.  She still sleeps with her favorite pink blanket (she says she likes it because its cold) and her baby doll.
- She generally wakes up happy, even though I have to drag her out of bed at 7:00 am every morning as quietly as I can so I don't wake up Vanessa.
- She loves to whistle.  Through her teeth and normally - she's just like her dad.  She's constantly whistling and it annoys Calvin. 
- She loves music!  She always wants to listen to music in the car, and she likes all kinds of music.  She recently heard the song "The End of the Beginning" by David Phelps and really loved it and wanted to hear it multiple times in a row.
- She LOVES the Bible story at night.  She turns the chair by her desk around so she can face Dave or I as we read it at night.  Her and Calvin enjoy acting out whatever story is being read if there is time to do that. 
- She also likes helping me in the kitchen.  If I cook noodles she dumps them in the water and stirs, and of course, tests them to see if they are ready yet.  Not yet! She ways...one more minute! Its still crunchy.  She says her favorite food is mac and cheese, but really, anything with noodles she will end up loving.  She also loves soup and bread.