Surprise notes are the best!

I found this note from Amelia at the bottom of my to do list...

it just made my day!!!

Amelia-isms... Whoopie Cushion

Here is some of Amelia's wise 8 year old advice....
"You should always check your chair for a whoopie cushion before you sit down". 

Then she asked me if we could buy one... sounds like 3rd grade humor to me!

Amelia's Note

Today Amelia left me this picture taped to my office chair, as I pealed it off I noticed this note on the backside...

Wow, this sure made my day!!! I guess I am doing something right?

P.S. I know it might look like she drew a penis after the heart but it is a finger pointing to the stick figure with curly hair (that's me). 

Please come see me

Last Thursday I got this email from Amelia's teacher:
Subject: Please come see me
HI,

  Well, I got a very interesting little note on the top of Amelia's letter to the teacher. Please stop by my class as soon as you can. I'm having an OMG moment! I would talk to her about it, but I want to talk to you first!!

Stacey W.

I went in to see the teacher very worried, this sure did not sound good! But Amelia has always been a good kid. The teacher handed me this...  double click to view it full size and read the tiny note at the very top of the letter.

Yeah... this was from a second grader to her teacher! Ugh!!!


After I talked to the teacher, both of us shocked, this is so unlike Amelia. I called my husband to tell him of Amelia's note. He thought she probably meant to write "stop giving me this sheet".  When we got home from school I had Amelia read the note to me to see how she would read it and she did say "sheet". 


I casually asked her to spell sheet and she spelled it the way she wrote it on the letter. I told her that was wrong and she tried again "shet". I told her that's closer and told her to correct way to spell sheet. 

Whew!... this is one time I am so thankful she miss spelled a word.

Either way she should not have written that note and there was an apology note on the next letter to the teacher.

Another funny memory to share with Amelia's future spouse!

In My Desk

Amelia wrote this little poem at school. Of course my favorite part is the drawing! I love her the point of view she drew it in? The person lifting up the desk lid and peeking in... just so cute! (said the proud Mama).


That was one thing Amelia was very excited about starting 2nd grade... the desks that lift up!

Double click the drawing to see it full size.

Hard and Easy

Amelia brought this home from school the other day and I had to scan it in to save it. It made me smile! I love that she wrote, "but it's easy to make friends". That makes me so happy to read. And as always I love her drawings. Notice the t-shirts... she is so into peace and love right now.

Made up words

Like a lot of kids, my girls love to make up words. Below are a few of theirs, the answers are below, try to guess what the words mean before peaking at the answers.

A.) Samba stew
B.) Beef belly bone
C.) Pockabull
D.) Wet Sopanese
E.) Skrinch

Answers below...









A.) when you stir up your ice cream to a liquid consistency.  B.) a man with his shirt off (they think that is so funny)  C.) to knock something over. D.) to clean the bathtub walls during bath time. E.) to scratch someone.

Meltdown Monday

Last weekend we set out to deliver the 176 boxes of Girl Scout cookies Amelia (and Brian at work) sold. Amelia was already in a grumpy mood, but when we talked about what she need to do when we went to the door she got upset when I told her she needed to say thank you. For some reason she did not want to say thank you. I explained to her how our neighbors were nice enough to buy cookies from her and that selling the cookies raised money so that her troop can do fun things... so she needed to say thank you. 


Meltdown... tears... red blotchy face. We didn't even make it to the first house. We went back inside, I headed up to my room to calm myself down, I was very frustrated by this point. We were having a battle of the wills over the words... thank you!


We ate lunch, played a bit and then attempted the delivery again... this time she was good and even wanted to go up to the door by herself, being all brave!


If I'm getting these mood swings at age 6 what is 16 going to be like? 


Photos: Why do I have a photo of my crying child? I had brought the camera along to get a cute photo like below, Amelia pulling her red wagon of GS cookies.

Amelia-isms - Krap

We got Amelia's "Being a writer, Unit 3" booklet in the backpack yesterday and it's great to see how well she is coming along with writing. But this story caught my eye.

She writes: Once I had a hubcap off and I had to wait and wait.

The best part of this is the drawing... notice me with the curly hair saying "Krap" and Anna and Amelia in the car with frowning. She even has the city hall sign, which is where this all happened, right in front of city hall.

This did happen last spring, we had gotten some work done on the tires and after that one of the hubcaps kept falling off. One of the times it fell off Amelia saw it rolling down the street so I pulled over to pick it up. I was not happy and I guess I said "crap" and of course she seems to remembers everything!!

I wonder what her 1st grade teacher thinks when she reads these stories. I bet she has read some pretty good ones over the years. Kids tell it like it is and I think that is so great!

Amelia-isms - Boobs

Scene: I was driving the girls home.

Amelia: Does having a baby give you boobies?

Me (chuckling): No you get breast when you are a teenager, but sometimes your boobs do get bigger when you are pregnant.

Amelia: Oh, I thought the baby inside did this (she punched her two fists forward), bam bam and poked them out.

Anna: laughing

Amelia: Then the baby takes it's fingers like this (she holds her fingers to poke) and pokes the nipples out.

Anna: more laughing

Me (laughing): No the baby can't do that.

They don't even hear me, they are both laughing so hard and pretending to poke out some boobies and nipples.

photo: The girls at their first Cheer/Dance class.

Amelia-isms - Santa's Elf

Scene: My office/studio

Amelia: Mama are you an elf?

Me: What... why do you ask?

Amelia: Because you are always making toys.

Me: Maybe I am.

Tell me how you feel... really

Front

Inside

Recently Amelia has been leaving me a few notes, I found this one folded up on my keyboard.

It says: "I wish you had not said that to me. That made me very very mad. Amelia"

I asked her what I said and I had told her no to something (I can't even remember what it was, but it was not a big deal). But I did like that she felt like she could express herself and her feelings to me. I told her that she can talk or write to me anytime and that I would always be here for her.

Well, I got another note today. This one says "That is so bad. I was so mad". It has two stick figures, one curly hair (that's me) and the other one is her with a word bubble saying "GRRRRR" That cracks me up! This time I had told her she could not have any more tic tacs. I am one mean Mama!

My favorite thing is in the photo of the note above she added a star, a smiley face and a peace sign. Then the drawing of her has a word bubble with three hearts. I guess she is not that mad at me!

Amelia-isms - Snickerdoodle

Last week after dinner Amelia was eating a snickerdoodle cookie and said...

"This doesn't taste like a snicker or a doodle"

Brian and I laughed and I asked what a doodle taste like.

She just shrugged her shoulders. Kids say the cutest things!

Photo: Brian waling the girls up to school for the outdoor movie night.

They showed Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Amelia wanted to wear my Wonka costume.