Not Quite Sure...

Not quite sure where this goes, but this was said by Ella maybe a month ago...

Upon seeing a rolypoly in the bathroom:
(cooing) Oooh a roly polyyyyy! He's so cuuuuute!
(somber) His family is dead in my room.

At school, Jacob's class writes a sentence every day telling what they did. Sometimes it's "We went outside" or "We played in the studio." Yesterday's was "I read a book." Kris and I were gushing over how excited we were that Jacob had read a book when he told us that everyone else had to write "Jacob read a book" because not only had he read the book, he read it aloud to the class. We are so proud!

Indy's Irish Fest

Saturday, we went to the Irish Festival. Jacob performed at noon with his school and did great! The kids had Half of July and all of August off, so I was amazed at how well they did with only 2 lessons since starting back. After the performance, we played and ate and listened to music.

Sunday, Jessica was signed up to volunteer in the Wee Folks area and took Jacob to help. Jake played until Jessica's shift was over and it started to rain. We ate lunch in the rain and pretended it was Ireland.



Jacob and Bella





Backstage


Showing off the uniform


Hi Mom!


The Junior and Beninner Dancers

The Two Hand Jig

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Here's Jacob at the Indy Irish Fest. He's improved so much!

Learning Some Vocabulary!

A couple of days ago, Jacob bounded off the bus and said:

"Those boys told me to tell Daddy that I'm part butthead."

I stopped walking. "You're part what???"

"I'm part butthead!"

"Um, Jacob, that's not a very nice word. Who said you were a butthead?"

"Those buttheads over there! (points to two Jake-aged boys walking away) That's butthead #1 and butthead #2. I'm butthead #3. That's the silliest butthead."

"Well Jake, it's not okay to use that word. If you say it at school you'll get in trouble."

"I know. I'm just going to say it on the bus."

Just Overheard

Ella: I'm gonna do a ballerina dance!
Jake: I'm gonna do a ballerina dance too.
Ella: You can't do a ballerina dance! You have to be four!
Jake: I've already been four...
Ella: *sighs* Jacob, your're five. You're not four. You can't do the dance because you don't know how.

(Ella was told that she can't take ballet lessons until she's four, so that's the magic ballerina number. Usually if you tell her she has to be four, she screams, "YOU CAN BE THREE TOO!" Which is true, but just too dang bad. Next year...)

Ella's Comedy Hour

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Feast of Lanterns

Saturday we went with Jennifer and Ray to the Feast of Lanterns. The kids got balloons (Jacob chose a bee and Ella chose a flower), played in several bounce houses, and ate hot dogs and snow cones. We listened to music and enjoyed the lighting of the lanterns at 8. Compared to last year, there was a lot more to do, but unfortunately, the music was pretty terrible. Funnel cake helps...