Easter (belated)

I wrote this and never posted it, what a waste.  So, here we are, but late:

We hit up an Easter party at the park- with bouncy houses, face painting, and a helicopter that dropped the eggs down in a circle, while all the kids watched.  They separated the egg hunts by age group, so Scarlett with with the 5 to 7 year olds, and I was a little worried that she wouldn't move quick enough or would get run over by more experienced egg-hunters.  I remember an early Easter, when she found one egg, then ran over to us smiling, focused on that egg, while all the others were gobbled up.  Or a time recently with a pinata, she was so entranced by the candy that she only picked up one piece.
But her competitive spirit showed up, and she filled up that basket then ran back over, smiling. 

Another school picture

Hemispheres

Last week at school, Scarlett told us about this project she'd been working on, making a world map.  From what I can tell, the steps are:

• Trace the continents
• Cut them out (although, I think she said they 'poke' them out)
• Write the names of each continent on white paper- this, she copied from a chart that had an online of each continent, and the name.  
• This is where she is in the picture below, proudly showing us her work during a parent-child open house.
• The next steps is to glue these onto a picture of the earth.  Then I think she one day gets to bring the masterpiece home. 

This week she used the word "hemispheres' to me in regular conversation.

Family karaoke

What happens at kid karaoke stays at kid karaoke.  But not really.  This is what happened:

• Scarlett held a microphone and stared, murmuring the words only slightly
• When she and I sang "together", she mostly buried her head in my shoulder
• There were some Frozen songs (not as many as we thought)
• Lots of dancing
• Drinks, Chinese food, and karaoke = a good time for the kids and the grown-ups

Our Good Luck Charm

We took Scar to a couple Blazers games when she was tiny, but it's been almost 5 years.  This time around, she colored in a sign and wore her Blaze gear.  And even though we lost the sign about 5 minutes into the game, the Blazers won.  Scarlett ate candy.  Everyone was happy.

Scar-ism

"You made my leg hurt by teaching me how to walk."

March

Things we are into lately:

1. Cousintime (above all else)
2. Climbing trees
3. Ninjas (frogs too, still. But ninjas the most)
4. "This is the first time I've done this since I was five!"
5. "You know another thing I haven't done since I was five?"


Cousintime

More counsintime

Tree-climbing

 More tree climbing

Oh yeah, so we went to Mt. Tabor and climbed trees with the cousins.  But then the cousins had to go. So we just walked around, and she spotted this juggler.  She shouted A JUGGLER and we ran over.  And then, for 40 minutes, she was the juggler's helper.  He would drop a ball, on purpose or by accident, and she'd chase after it. He tried to teach her to swat the balls away mid-air. She named the tennis balls Weirdy, Funny and Smarty.  She laughed and he laughed too.  She ran around and played in the sun.  It's March, but sunny like summertime. I guess this is what happens.