Planting time!

Elena started her own garden! She planted carrot seeds and various flower seeds.
We are all very excited to see what comes of her seeds. Especially since she isn't remembering to water them...

Elena helped Auntie Terry get the tomoatoes seedlings ready for the plant sale. She helped separate the plants and put them in individual pots. It was also fun to plant rocks!

Different ways to drive

Elena loves driving! She loves the driving and winning at the Wii game, Mario Kart, and will race with anyone who will join her or by herself. Her knowledge of racing is evident in the real world now too. She sits in the back seat telling the driver what place they are in and that they should drive faster and pass x-amount of cars to be first. Hopefully she'll understand that the real road isn't a race by the time she's 16... Now that it's spring, Elena will have more opportunities to drive her bicycle around the neighborhood. Even when she falls down, she climbs back on and is ready to continue. It's fun! Maybe she'll be on 2 wheels by the end of the summer.

Star Bag

On March 24th Elena brought the star bag home from school. She was very excited to go outside and see what was in the sky - stars? the moon? maybe a satellite? After bundling up (it was cold), she put on the binoculars and headed outside to look at the sky. Not much to see, just gray clouds. It wasn't late/dark enough and the sky was overcast. We kept the star bag an extra day and went out at a later time the following night. It was dark enough to see all sorts of stars and a couple of airplanes.
Elena's favorite part of the star bag experience was writing in the journal and drawing a picture of her observations. She got to share her entries during circle time in class.

Snow White

Elena is pretending to be Snow White. Looks like she's eaten the poison apple and fallen asleep. Where will we find a Prince Charming? There's one! Think Charming Zachy will give Snow White a kiss and wake her up?
Nope, he'll just smile and giggle.

Then lose interest and crawl away. Good luck Snow White!

Elena writes the word ____.

BTW, it says "set"

This is work from Elena's school. Her teacher made a point to mention that the first word is "set" and that her t just looks like an x. A nice chuckle for her parents. :-)

At the River House

Grandma gave Elena a lesson in ironing. She really liked it! Elena only ironed square pieces of fabric, but Auntie has high hopes she'll be doing shirts soon...
Elena was very careful.

Elena has been sewing buttons at school. After ironing the fabric, she chose some buttons to sew. No, she didn't sew all of those... Some are waiting for our next visit.

Thanks for always having fun stuff to do Grandma!

Are you wearing green?!?

Elena decided that pinching isn't very nice, so if you aren't wearing green you'll get tickled. Better watch out Grandma! We haven't seen any leprechauns today... Or do these two little ones count?
Happy St. Patrick's Day!