Birthday Party and Halloween!
Posted by: Sarah on: October 31, 2009
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As I think I mentioned before, we postponed Shoshanna’s birthday party – the third week of school at a new school was just too crazy to contemplate. She desperately wanted to have it at the bounce place so we booked it for today, not because of Halloween, but just because it was the most convenient day for us.
So we had about 10 kids at Leaps & Bounce for pizza, cake, and more running around than you can imagine. You can get half an idea of how crazy the place is from this picture… at the end is the inflatable jousting arena, which is just general bouncing when there’s no one jousting. The rainbow-striped thing next to Shoshanna and J.V. is a kind of maze that finishes in an extremely steep slide. At the end of the room is another (less steep) slide, a “generic” bounce house, and a garden-themed on with mushrooms and a little slide and other stuff in it. 
And, lucky her, she got to see Jordan for the second time in 8 days. We’ve all been so busy that the girls haven’t seen nearly as much of each other as they would like.
Anyway. Shoshanna had a blast, many of her good friends were there, and OH do her friends know her – we have so many craft projects in our future – and she was ALMOST asleep when we got home. She did nap, thankfully. Because she had to get her energy up for trick or treating!!!
As usual, Evil Auntie Eilis outdid herself, with possibly the most bizarre Halloween costume request ever. See, when our friends were here in July, Ben showed us this video. And Shoshanna IMMEDIATELY wanted to be the purple girl. Why? I have no idea. But lo and behold, here we have her.
Updates ahoy!
Posted by: Sarah on: October 19, 2009
Lots of things to report, most of them school-related. Read the rest of this entry »
Helper
Posted by: Sarah on: October 3, 2009
We’re redoing our upstairs bathroom.
Shoshanna’s a rockstar at wielding a paint roller. And sandpaper.
Tidbits…
Posted by: Sarah on: September 28, 2009
A new self-sufficiency streak… that manifests itself as the aforementioned trying to plunge the toilet oneself, and dragging a rubbermaid tub into the bathroom to reach a cup in the medicine cabinet to water one’s spider plant with.
Turning to Jordan during Yom Kippur services and saying, “One time you didn’t want to play with me. You should say you’re sorry.” (We had to try REALLY HARD not to crack up.) And then playing perfectly happily together all through break-fast.
Wanting to wear the Muppet Coat to donuts yesterday, and we explained that it was too warm for a parka. ”Can I wear it when it gets cold? Like when it snows?” Yes. ”What about hail?” Yes, if it hails, you can wear it. Famous last words (some higher power was having their way with me… the hail was falling literally as we were getting ready to walk out the door to go to services).
Happy Birthday!
Posted by: Sarah on: September 26, 2009
Five. Wow.
End of the day completely exhausted birthday girl
We sent Shoshanna off to school yesterday wearing her new birthday dress and with her backpack loaded down with 2 boxes of animal crackers and a jug of juice for snacktime.
Crazy Girls
We had some friends over for pizza & cupcakes last night – not a proper birthday party, that will be next month sometime once we have contact info for all her new kindergarten friends that she wants to invite. Just five kids including Shoshanna, some time to run around outside, then dinner and hepping them up on cupcakes they decorated themselves.
Shoshanna the Cupcake Cruise Director
When just Ben and Jordan were still at the house, Shoshanna and Jordan ran upstairs to go to the bathroom. A few minutes later I heard her bellowing for me and went upstairs to find the thing that it probably hasn’t occurred to any of you to fear:
Two five year old girls, a full toilet, and a toilet plunger.
Yeah. Thankfully no harm was done. They had decided the toilet wasn’t working right and were trying to fix it. Then Shoshanna was so tired she kept trying to convince Jordan to play “sleep”.
Can you see from Shoshanna's face how completely exhausted she is?
She passed out cold when we put her to bed.
Homework
Posted by: Sarah on: September 22, 2009
Ballet & A Checkup
Posted by: Sarah on: September 19, 2009
Big week ’round these parts!
Monday was Shoshanna’s first ballet class. If you want the very definition of nervous energy, the lobby of a dance studio in the 10 minutes before the first day of a pre-ballet class for kindergartners is it. And there are a whopping seventeen girls in the class – so many that Miss Amanda has an 11-ish year old assistant (which is very cute). Shoshanna loved it.
Shoshanna also came down with her first cold of the new school year mid-week (probably compliments of new germs and reduced sleep) but as usual it isn’t slowing her down. She was mad that we didn’t let her try to blow the shofar with all the other kids at Rosh Hashanah services today, though. And on Thursday we went to the doctor for her checkup. Dr. L says she’s healthy as a horse. She’s enormous – 43 pounds on their scale, and still just a smidge under 42″ tall. This was the first year they felt comfortable giving her the flumist (live virus) instead of the injection (dead virus) and she’s shown no ill effects from it (less of a reaction than I usually have to the injection). She also got the final varicella shot. She’ll get an H1N1 vaccine when they become available, probably in about a month.
So much for that plan…
Posted by: Sarah on: September 11, 2009
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The plan to stay “on green” all year lasted less than 2 days of school. Shoshanna reported yesterday that she got “on yellow” because she got bored and got out of her seat when she was supposed to be sitting. I am not shocked. She also reported that somebody got “on red” yesterday (for talking when the teacher was talking) and had a five-minute time out.
They also had Spanish class yesterday, and Shoshanna brought home a picture of a caterpillar with all the colors labeled in Spanish. (That’ll show Matthew and me for thinking that they would alternate which grade was getting which language!)
I will be yelled at if I don’t post this as soon as possible.
Posted by: Sarah on: September 9, 2009
The first day of kindergarten went very well… Shoshanna can’t wait to go back tomorrow. They had music class and art time – they started painting rainbow fish to hang from the ceiling of their classroom. She loved riding the bus and has declared that she wants to stay “on green” (good behavior) for the whole year.
The human brain is a very strange place…
Posted by: Sarah on: October 5, 2009
Shoshanna’s fifth birthday was the easiest by far. We were both so busy and she’s loving life so much right now that it wasn’t particularly traumatic.
This week, though, I’m getting ready to go to an academic conference. It’s the same conference that I was at just before Shoshanna was born, and I’m remembering that getting ready to go two years ago was a little weird, too. This time, to make things even more crazy, I’m traveling with a friend who I was going to bum around Brighton with for an afternoon after the conference five years ago but we miscommunicated about where we were meeting. Would I even remember that if it hadn’t happened right before Shoshanna was born? Probably not. But making plans to meet up with her on Wednesday morning so we can pile in the car and drive to Milwaukee was making me really anxious.
Just goes to show that the brain can still be a little traumatized even five years later.
In other news, a local woman gave birth to 25-week quints last week. I’m avoiding the news coverage, though, because it will just make me angry with its misinformation and false optimism.