Andrew Lost Teeth - Both Kids Write to Tooth Fairy

Andrew lost a tooth last night (and another this morning!)

Last night he wrote a letter to the tooth fairy. Ali, meanwhile, remembered that she hadn't let the tooth fairy know about a couple of recent lost teeth so she wrote a letter too. Here's their letters (plus a translation for Andrew's

Text of Andrew's letter:

Dear Tooth Fairy, I still want [to keep] my tooth. You might remember where my house is. From Andrew to Tooth [Fairy] This is my second tooth [to fall out].

Andrew's having fun

Andrew was playing on the Wii (video game) tonight and he said to me:

Mommy, want me to tell you something?

The more harder it is the more funner it gets ... and it's really hard!

A great story by Alison

Alison was assigned a class exercise to write a story about a playground fight between two friends. I think this is fantastic!!

Andrew's family picture

I asked Andrew to draw a picture to put in our new year's letter. Here it is. Notice the hearts and arrows. Apparently they point at who loves whom the most. Andrew loves daddy the most and everything else follows from there ....

A simple project was a big success

The other night after making marshmallow dreidels with Andrew I had some leftover melted chocolate in two colors. Not wanting to let it go to waste, I made homemade "gelt" (coins) by drawing each of the letters in Alison & Andrew's names out (backwards) on a piece of foil in one color of melted chocolate, and then covering that with a circle to form a coin in another color.

I didn't think much of it ... it was a really simple thing, took me 5 minutes to do. So I didn't even take a picture.

Tonight I gave them to the kids. And got high praise from Andrew:

"My gelt is the goodest chocolate I ever ate. It's so good!!"

:-)

Andrew read a book tonight!

Andrew is very pleased tonight because he read a whole book. Admittedly it only had 4 words in it (two names:"Mat" & "Sam", plus the words "on" and "Sat") but there's a plot and several pages and he read the whole thing! I'm pretty pleased too :-). It's a series of 12 little books: http://www.bobbooks.com/bob_books_set_1.php

Alison's first computer program

Ali used "scratch" (scratch.mit.edu)  to write her first program. It's an animation called "wait up." She did it all by herself, and I wasn't allowed to peek until she was done. You can watch it here: http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/suny36/1391022