crushes, and twisters, and shoes...oh my!

This weekend was "Open House" at the girls' school. Here's E at her desk...so studious.

E's closest friends are boys. DG doesn't really click with the girls in her class, they're either too "girlie," negative, or not very imaginative. There's a group of boys with which DG plays superheroes, dragons, and other nerdy role playing games. These are not the "football" boys as DG calls the other boys in the class. (Jeez, jocks and nerds in third grade already *sigh.*) Anyway, we walked into the classroom and there was her friend "G," (using initials to protect the innocent)along with his parents and sister. He's new this year so, I had never met them before. As soon as we walked in, there was all kinds of pointing and whispering on their part. I heard the sister whisper teasingly "So THAT'S E." I introduced myself and G's mom informed me that they heard a lot about Emma at home. *wink**wink* Oh boy, that's the third mom that's told me her son has a crush on E. And she is COMPLETELY oblivious. It's very sweet, I just wonder when it's all going to change.

Speaking of boys, she did her science fair project with her friend "M" who, incidentally proposed to her in Preschool. Here's some of the project. (I had to cut "M" out as to not expose other peoples' kids to the dangers on the interweb). It was on tornadoes. They did a really good job and even made one of those tornadoes in a bottle thing. If you look at the board you can see they made it into a "Twister" board...get it? "Twister" she unfortunately inherited my sense of humor.


Then we ventured over to Kindergarten and got the grand tour from K. Here she is at her locker:



At any rate, she proudly showed us her desk, her favorite dress up clothes, etc. Then we went over to a bulletin board where her name was prominantly displayed on the "I lost a tooth chart" and the "I know my address and phone number" chart. She sulkily pointed to the "I can tie my shoe" chart and said, "I want to get my name up there."

She was right. I was shirking my parental duties. I had attempted to teach her her a while back, but her lefthandedness threw me for a loop...Literally! *ahem* Sorry. I promised her we'd get some shoes with laces and try again.

Tonight, we bought her some Hello Kitty kicks expressly for "project shoe-tie." I mentally prepared myself for the long weeks of knots and frustration that lie ahead. While E started her homework, I showed K the ropes --ha! (there I go again, somebody stop me) and said just work on some knots while I help E. No sooner do I read the directions on E's homework, I hear, "I did it." Sure enough, she did. An actual bow. "Wow", I said "Okay do the other one, I'll be right back." No sooner do I look at E's math problem, she's like, "Got it!" It was amazing. She's like a shoe tying machine. She did it, like, easily twenty-five times tonight. She's all psyched to go to school to show her teacher. Mrs. K better have that Sharpie ready. I don't think she's going to give her a minute of peace until her name is up on that shoe.

Here's what was probably successful attempt #20: