Another Week

Mark had to do a poster about himself for school. He helped me come up with a bunch of words that describe him. Since he loves games we tried making a game board... but no. Then we decided to use his name. He liked that idea and helped me cut out all the words and color the pictures of him since we just have a black and white printer. It was fun to do together. One thing about Mark is that each year we've done these he has a new favorite color. I remember last year's color, silver, the year before, red; this year's color was orange. If you could pick one position to find Jessie in it would be with her nose in a book. For school every 30 minutes the kids read they get a ticket for a drawing for a bike at the end of the year. My kids are really going to it. Which is great, but as a parent it is hard for me to tell them to stop reading, but I still need their help. Jessie cruised through this book in two days.
Today while Spencer was napping, Abbie made up a new game for us to play. It's kind of like a color mixing game on a Blue's Clue's computer game we have.

First she tried drawing a game on a piece of scratch paper, but then we came up with the perfect thing. We cut out little 2 inch squares of paper in orange, green and purple and then randomly laid them out in a line that curved around for our board. Then we typed up the colors red, yellow and blue on little pieces of paper and cut them out. Abbie got to pick out different fonts for all the primary color words because her mom loves fonts! (Speaking of which I haven't checked out the new fonts on scrapvillage.com yet. They upload a few new ones on the 15th of every month. Back to the story...)

So to play the game you picked a primary color card and then choose another primary color to mix with the assigned one and moved your piece to the color it made. So if you drew a RED card you choose to mix it with blue and get purple or yellow to get orange. Abbie was so good at always picking which combination would get her the farthest.

Of course you have to have prizes for the winner and so Abbie picked out some of her favorite rocks, two paper puppets, a bracelet she made at a birthday party along with a few other things for our prizes. She won the first two rocks and let me win the third one because she felt bad for her mom. I won the last rock and we moved on to the puppets. Spencer woke up around then and the game was postponed until tomorrow.

After that we sat on the front steps eating ice cream cones and waiting for the kids to walk home from school. Later we had Mark's soccer game and Grandma and Kyle and Jennie came. Mark was SO happy to have such a crowd there to watch. He did a super job and after the game we handed out rice crispy treats he helped make. What a good kid.

Everyone is finally in bed and Ken just finished reading two chapters of Holes to them. It's nice to have quite at the end of the day. One sad thing...Poor Jessie got her head squished in the van door when we got home from the soccer game and it sleeping with a bag of ice on each side of her head behind her ears.