My friend Porter

Have I told you about Porter? He's in my class and rides my bus. I sit by him EVERY DAY on the way home. We are really good friends. He can't tie his shoes yet so he always asks me to help him. He'll learn someday, but I don't mind helping him. He really likes me.

Swimming Lessons

Well, swimming lessons were not all I had hoped for this week. I had my hopes up A LOT that Kyle would be my teacher. When I found out he wasn't there I had a break down. I got a bad tummy ache and just cried. I didn't want any other teacher.

There is another class at the same time as mine so we joined that class for a while. Then another teacher came in to help. She took the other class and that teacher took my class. It was me and three other girls. He took our class instead of his own because he knew I was upset. Mommy told them I wanted Kyle, and they were going to have him come to the pool for me but he wasn't working tonight.

This new guy teacher though tried to help us swim too though, just like Kyle. He was pretty nice and the lesson turned out ok after all, but I was still upset. One class left. I wonder if they'll bring in my favorite teacher just for my class??? Maybe. But starting November 6, I get a full session of private lessons just like Brother gets. I get to go to the same pool he does too. I'm really excited about that.

Learning to spell

I am really learning a lot in Kindergarten. Tonight after swimming lessons, I was telling Mommy that "Dog" starts with the letter "D". She then asked me what the last letter was. I sounded it out and said "G". Then she asked me if I knew what the middle letter is. I sounded it out again and said "O". Next she said "Ok...how do you spell dog then?" I thought about it for a second and then said "D-O-G ?! D-O-G!!!! I spelled my first word." I was so excited.

I'm also learning to read a few site words.

Day Off

Today we had a day off from school for Columbus Day. Brother and I slept in and both woke up around 8:30. Mommy had to work a little so we went outside and burnt some more of the sticks while she did her work. She stopped around 10:00 for the day and came outside to help us. Then we had tacos for lunch and went shopping for Halloween Costumes. Halloween is big in our house. I'm really excited about my costume this year so you'll have to stay tuned for pictures of my costume in the coming weeks. It's not done...yet. It will be soon though.

Homecoming - Parade & Football Game

This week Homecoming week. Each day we got to dress some special way for school.
- Monday was hat day. I wore Mommy's Yankee hat.
- Tuesday was sunglasses day. I wore my pink ones, of course.
- Wednesday was Crazy hair day. My mom did my hair in a crazy pony tail with lost of colored ponytail holders.
- Thursday was team jersey day. I borrowed one of Brother's Cowboy Jerseys.
- Today was orange & blue day or country day. I had to dress country because we needed to be dressed like that for the parade.

After school we had a Homecoming parade. All of the Kindergartener's got to bring their own wagon and ride in it. Brother pulled me in the wagon while I threw out candy. It was a lot of fun. Once we were done with the parade we got to sit along the route and watch the rest since we were one of the first ones walking the parade.

We also went the the football game. Brother's class sang "God Bless America" and sang the school song with the High School Band playing back up. The best part of the game though was seeing my friend Sydney. I got to play with her and talk to her for a while.

Private Swim Lesson

Tonight I ended up having a private swimming lesson at the YMCA. There are usually four kids in my class but there was this thing called a "cluster" (that's what Mommy called it), and for a while they closed the pool. Then two hours before lessons they called and said the pool was open again, so Daddy took me. It was his turn.

I was the only student in my class to show up. Probably due to the "cluster" Mommy told me about. This meant I got my very own private lesson. Last week, my teacher had hurt her leg so this week I had a guy. His name was Kyle. He was really teaching my how to swim using strokes. I was swimming on my back without him holding me for a while. My other teacher never did that. I really really like Kyle. I hope I have him next week. I think I will... I hope I do....

Brrrr! It's cold out there!

We had a busy weekend. Friday night I cheered at the football game. Then on Saturday we had a garage sale at my Great Grandma Dody's house. We were able to walk around to a few sales and Mommy got me a little dog in a cute pink leopard print bag. She also bough Brother the first three Harry Potter books. Along with all of that though we got rid of a bunch of stuff at the sale which is good. Clear out the clutter!

After the garage sale we came home and then went out to the Cub Scout campout. We grabbed extra blankets and headed out there. One problem...it was cold outside and supposed to get down to 35 degrees. If it gets down to 32 Brother would earn his Polar Bear Patch. Daddy said the forecast is usually accurate so there wasn't much chance of it getting down to 32. He was wrong! It got down to 32 degrees exactly...NO COLDER. This was the perfect night to earn that patch. Couldn't have been "better" weather to earn the patch. Mommy said she was going to buy me one too since I slept in that cold weather too!

Daddy said I looked like something from "Legally Blonde". I wore a pink sweat suit and had my pink leopard print bag with the little dog. I was SO cute!