The Scape Goat

Laura's found her favorite excuse lately. She'll say, "I need to take my blanket downstairs because I miss GG and Papa." After making a poor choice she'll sob, "Well, I just miss GG and Papa!" as she heads toward her time out. My favorite is, "I need to watch another George. That will make me feel better about missing GG and Papa." Oh dear.

In other news, Laura still loves preschool. Her best friend is a boy named Hudson. I asked her what Hudson looks like and she said, "He looks like a prince. I think I'm going to marry him." I'm still trying to figure out who this handsome, future son-in-law is when I pick her up from preschool.

Fashionista

Laura said the funniest thing this morning. I'm wearing my gray dress with leggings today and this was our conversation.

 

Laura: Mom, when I'm a mom can I wear a dress like that?

Me: Of course you can.

Laura: Okay, where did you get it at?

 

 

Laura's 4th Birthday

Laura celebrated her 4th birthday with a Beauty and the Beast birthday party. One of the party highlights was our balloon popping game that contained a piece of paper with a letter on the inside (I'm a reading teacher, I can't help it). Once all the balloons were popped, the letters spelled:
                             G-e-t G-a-s-t-o-n! 
That's when we cued the music and Gaston made a surprise appearance at the party. I can still hear the children's squeals as Eric lip sang "Gaston" and was chased out of the house to be nailed with water balloons.

There's no man in town as admired as you
You're ev'ryone's favorite guy

 

Ev'ryone's awed and inspired by you
And it's not very hard to see why

No one's slick as Gaston
No one's quick as Gaston
No one's neck's as incredibly thick as Gaston's

 

For there's no man in town half as manly
Perfect, a pure paragon!
You can ask any Tom, Dick or Stanley
And they'll tell you whose team they prefer to be on

 

Between the drawn on cleft chin and construction paper collar, I'm not exactly sure where this would fall in love languages, but my love tank was spilling over.

 

 

The birthday party was an overall success. Here are some other highlights to remember...

 

Cake decorating is not my specialty, I kept having flashbacks to the Lancer's Cake Auction when decorating this beauty.

 

Playing the game, "What time is it, Cogsworth?"

This game was a stretch. Remember when it snowed in the movie? This game involved wearing a shower cap with Cool Whip to use to try to catch pieces of popcorn that Eric was pouring over the deck.

 

Back to reality...

 

Sunday School

Laura's been going to Sunday School and she's been liking the weekly religious education. The other night Laura chose a bible story to read which sparked the following conversation.

Laura: Mom, I need to tell you something.

Me: What?

Laura: Jesus died and someone hung him up.

I think someone spotted the crucifix.

Bedtime

Sam's been going through this terrible phase of crying hysterically when I leave the room after putting him to bed. If Daddy puts him to bed he has no problems so for the past couple of weeks Daddy has been in charge of putting him to bed. Eric is out of town this week so tonight I solicited Laura to help me put Sam to bed. I can't even watch this video without crying...

Laura's attempt at putting him to bed didn't work either. It was well worth the try though.

Gymnastics

Laura had her first real gymnastics class tonight. When Laura left the gym she said, "That was funner than I thought."

First Day of Preschool

Laura had her first day of preschool today. She is enrolled at East Elementary (where I work) and her teacher is Miss Niki. Laura's been kind of hot and cold about starting preschool. Here's an example of Laura being excited about preschool. Miss Niki emailed parents asking for a picture. Laura had many different smiles she wanted to experiment with for the photo.

 

Here is an example of Laura this morning. Not feeling very excited about preschool.

 

 

After giving her a vitamin, she seemed to snap out of it and was excited to go.

 

After her first day, she came out of the school with a big smile on her face. I hope that continues the whole year.