This morning, the kids were playing nicely together in Peyton’s room. When I went to call Brandon for piano practice, he even said, “Why? We’re playing so nicely!” I told him he could return when he finished. He had to practice before he was going to practice. I had Peyton practice while the boys went to basketball. While the boys were at practice, I did some more cleaning up, and Peyton watched a movie downstairs. I’d heard her talking, and I thought she was talking to the tv. As I went to check on her, I heard her on speakerphone. She’d answered my phone! I’d called both parents’ cells since they were travelling, and apparently, my dad called back. They were having a full on conversation for I don’t know how long. Good thing I have caller ID so she wasn’t talking to a stranger. I let her talk, and after awhile, she told my dad, “Okay, here’s Mommy.” I talked to my dad for awhile, then asked Peyton if she’d like to go to the library. She happily agreed, so we headed over. Her teacher had noticed on Friday that she has a chapter book she keeps in her backpack to read. It’s my copy of “Fox and the Hound”. The teacher asked her to remind her about getting some chapter books at the school’s library, the next time the class goes to pick out books.
It’s been awhile since we’d been, and I saw that the book of the month club was back. Brandon participated last year, reading a book a month, answering a question, and then turning it in the end for a free paperback. He actually enjoyed it! Peyton is still too young, as you have to be in first grade or higher to participate. But they told me there is a program for the younger kids – 1000 books before 6. The intent is for parents to start at birth, reading at least 1000 books to the kids before they reach 1st grade. The librarian asked Peyton if she was interested, and she hid behind me, but nodded her head. The librarian saw it, and she asked her how old she was. She answered, “Five and a half.” She noted “5” and the date, and then handed her her log. The log states it can be any book, and if a book is read more than once, which is often the case with younger kids (and even older, younger kids) and it is okay to log those as many times as read. Peyton picked about 20 more books, and then we headed home. We went up to her room, and I cleared off her desk to get her situated. I took down a few titles for her to copy, including the author. All the books in her bookshelf she has read at least once. We also entered all the Bob books that she started with. We have two complete box sets, so she wrote each title down. I showed her how to do shortcuts with the author’s name repeated. Some of her baby books didn’t have authors, so she would write, “No Author”. She worked on this for quite awhile. I had been cleaning, and I almost forgot she was here! The folder only had 100 lines at a time, then you return to the library to get a sticker at 50, and a prize at 100. She was still working on it when Brandon and Dave got home. Brandon was working on his own project – disguising a turkey his teacher had given him. He chose to hide the turkey from being eaten by dressing him up as a soccer player, specifically Messi. We had to look up the specifics of the jersey, but Dave had gotten some felt for the turkey’s clothing. Both kids were busy working on their projects while Dave and I hung out and supervised nearby. Finally, Peyton got hungry, and had completed her 100 titles. I reminded her that her reading program also counted as each was a book. Brandon had to physically be present to sign up for the book club, so our plan was to take the kids back. We all headed out, and I had brought Dave in case the librarian gave us a hard time as we’d just picked up the booklet today. But there were two different librarians there. Brandon signed up with one, while Peyton showed the other her reading. She received a sticker as well as a box of crayons and a coloring book. She was so excited! She was even more excited to go home and write the online books into her log. I set her up on the laptop, and she went through one by one and put the books into her log. She was working so quietly, while Dave was getting ready to watch the college football game. Brandon had started his September book of the month book upstairs. He was also playing, too, as his attention is not held that long. Finally, Peyton wrapped up at 150, as she was hungry and tired. Dave felt badly for her, even though I told him I wasn’t MAKING her do anything! The kids watched another movie while the football game was on, but Peyton kept coming back downstairs to see what I was doing. I was working on my calendar pages for the 2015 year that we were given last week. Audrey sent it out to us, and this year, there are 7 participants! It used to be just the girls from high school (Katy, Laurie, Cindy, Audrey, me) and one from Cindy and Audrey’s college years (Julie), and now it’s expanded to one more girl from college (Sheila). I’m looking forward to the finished product. I was assigned January and July, and I thought to make Olaf. I asked the kids if they thought he should go on January or July. Both kids declared he should be on July because “he loves summer!”
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i took a picture of Peyton’s outfit today since the “bubble” dress has resurfaced 🙂  It’s amazing that her pants are not the same manufacturer of the dress, but the color coordinates well.  And the socks are the same shade as well!