How comfy and glorious is the new bed Madison has! Daddy spent a good part of the afternoon assembling this masterpiece, just in time for Madison to arrive home from school on the bus. She immediately went upstairs, discovering there her new bed - complete with Disney princess sheets and pillowcases. It looks so comfy, and takes up so much space too. Madison is already asleep in it as I type this out. She absolutely loves it, and couldn't wait to give it a try.
Years ago, we got the framework for this bed convert. It started out as the crib - we took away the front part about three years ago. But we kept it as a footboard, along with the side portions that have been tucked away a really long time. We just unboxed them this afternoon for the first time, which is something because we bought the whole kit about a year before we even met Madison. That's 2007, six years ago. We said it was for our future daughter Madison, so the furniture guys wrote out the name "Mattson" on it.
So today we put that together, and suddenly Madison has all this space to play with. Lots of room for stuffed animals too!
We did our piano when she got home, and we did some practice with her sight words too. By the end of this quarter, she needs to have mastery of about 90 sight words on this list that was just sent home. Madison knows about 84 of the words really well, although we did some drills and she seems to have the hang of the others on the list too. We'll do that again and again. Hey, that's funny: one of the words on the list is "again!"
After practicing a bit, we harvested a lot more of our small tomatoes, and had dinner. We went back to Middle Earth, and for those of you keeping track at home, we've made it all the way through those Mines of Moria. Unfortunately, Gandalf seems to have taken a wrong turn. Madison was a bit worried about the old guy, but in truth, he's not her favorite character. She seems to like Merry the most, mainly because he can go fishing.
There is another movie event for our kids' church coming up, and the powers-that-be are leaning towards the movie "Epic." We just saw that for Summer Xtreme 2013, but there is literally nothing else for kids that is coming out recently on DVD or Blu Ray. Everything else is an older flick, and the feeling is that kids will want to see something new. We'll see how that goes. Regardless, tonight Daddy, Mommy and Madison once again "screened" the movie before bed. That is to say, we watched it again on the couch. It gets better with each viewing, honestly. The animation is masterfully done, that's for sure.
But after the movie, it was time to test out the new bed. We stomped up there, which is a reference in the movie. We, all of those people who are not tiny, are called stompers. We stomp about and taaaaaallllkkk reeeeeeaaaaaal sllllllooooooooow. Which is how Madison, Mommy and Daddy were talking after we said our prayers. Madison said in slow motion: "I hit my elbow!" Which is a line from the movie. And everyone laughed, and said good night to each other in ultra slow motion:
Gooooooood Niiiiiiiiggggghhhhht!
Years ago, we got the framework for this bed convert. It started out as the crib - we took away the front part about three years ago. But we kept it as a footboard, along with the side portions that have been tucked away a really long time. We just unboxed them this afternoon for the first time, which is something because we bought the whole kit about a year before we even met Madison. That's 2007, six years ago. We said it was for our future daughter Madison, so the furniture guys wrote out the name "Mattson" on it.
So today we put that together, and suddenly Madison has all this space to play with. Lots of room for stuffed animals too!
We did our piano when she got home, and we did some practice with her sight words too. By the end of this quarter, she needs to have mastery of about 90 sight words on this list that was just sent home. Madison knows about 84 of the words really well, although we did some drills and she seems to have the hang of the others on the list too. We'll do that again and again. Hey, that's funny: one of the words on the list is "again!"
After practicing a bit, we harvested a lot more of our small tomatoes, and had dinner. We went back to Middle Earth, and for those of you keeping track at home, we've made it all the way through those Mines of Moria. Unfortunately, Gandalf seems to have taken a wrong turn. Madison was a bit worried about the old guy, but in truth, he's not her favorite character. She seems to like Merry the most, mainly because he can go fishing.
There is another movie event for our kids' church coming up, and the powers-that-be are leaning towards the movie "Epic." We just saw that for Summer Xtreme 2013, but there is literally nothing else for kids that is coming out recently on DVD or Blu Ray. Everything else is an older flick, and the feeling is that kids will want to see something new. We'll see how that goes. Regardless, tonight Daddy, Mommy and Madison once again "screened" the movie before bed. That is to say, we watched it again on the couch. It gets better with each viewing, honestly. The animation is masterfully done, that's for sure.
But after the movie, it was time to test out the new bed. We stomped up there, which is a reference in the movie. We, all of those people who are not tiny, are called stompers. We stomp about and taaaaaallllkkk reeeeeeaaaaaal sllllllooooooooow. Which is how Madison, Mommy and Daddy were talking after we said our prayers. Madison said in slow motion: "I hit my elbow!" Which is a line from the movie. And everyone laughed, and said good night to each other in ultra slow motion:
Gooooooood Niiiiiiiiggggghhhhht!
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