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This One's for My Mom

Apparently, I haven't been very good about getting pictures to my mom. She's been great this year, making a lot of darling outfits for Dayna. So, here are some pictures of some of her great creations:

The Zebra dress: Dan is not a fan of animal print, and would never let me get clothing for Dayna with animal print; Nana to the rescue! (Because what's Dan going to say to his mother-in-law...really?)

Dayna's Christmas dress at her school program. This is a picture with Mrs. Bebout, her music teacher.

Dayna at the Ashland Fine Arts Festival. She was so sweet that night!

I LOVE this skirt! So fun...it is reversible (brown with polka dots on the inside) and filled with just enough teal netting to make it really, really poofy! The children on the skirt are of every race and color.

Dayna calls this her "fall" dress, or her "apple" dress. It's a darling corduroy. Her Bitty Baby (Lucy) has a similar dress (red with apples). They went together to an American Girl tea party before Christmas.

Thanks, Mom for the great clothes. Sorry I was such a flake about getting you pictures.

Last Day of Kindergarten

Today is Dayna's last day of Kindergarten. All year, I have been sending special encouraging notes to Mrs. Starns on this pad of paper. Dayna has been instructed not to use this paper.

Well, today, I let her write her own encouraging thank you note to Mrs. Starns. The spelling is creative, but I think you'll get the idea.

And just in case you need help with the translation:

"Dear Mrs. Starns:

You have been a great teacher to me. You have taught the kids about reading and writing and comprehension strategies. Again you have to me love (?).

Love Dayna"

Of Pots and Potters, Reprise

Just a review of some struggles I had last winter:

http://wilson24-15.blogspot.com/2010/12/of-pots-and-potters.html

So while Dayna was painting pottery for her birthday, I was making a project of my own.

The song is "Amazing Grace"

The reminder is that when the Potter chooses to thump me, my heart should sing:

...because if I just go "thunk", the Potter will have to put me back through the fire until I'm ready. So...what choice will I make?

Keeping the Tooth Fairy Busy

Dayna has lost her bottom two teeth now! The tooth fairy pillow belonged to Dan when he was a boy. The tooth fairy has been bringing Dayna the gold dollar coins. Pretty cool of the tooth fairy! (Even better that Dayna's dad has been on the ball and communicating with the tooth fairy, as I've been a bit out of it this month!)