Bedtime stories

Looking back

Mara has places to go.

Readers

New shield

Grandma Anne's favorite poem

"I'm weadin' hew a stowy!"

Pleased

While she is crawling, Mara has decided walking is the way to travel. If you help her up onto her feet, you are her best friend.

Things we should know

Isaiah: "Every day Kateri hammers out trouble on her little invisible anvil."

Bernadette: " We have to listen to the Peter Pan songs every day or else I get moody."

Treed

A couple of Bernadette's favorite pastimes

"I love to play hide-and-seek.  And I like to sneeze."

Fisherman

All five

Matching

From Grandma

Dance class

The hunters

Crazy sleeper

Bernadette

At the lunch table on Holy Thursday: "Easter is practically touching our faces!"

I read her a picture book about Abraham Lincoln.  After listening to me stammer through what I hoped was an age-appropriate definition of slavery, her eyes grew wide and she said, "That is against the law of Jesus."

Notes

Slightly exasperating, but mostly proud moments as I watch the kids mature: Working the other night when I heard rustling in the living room behind me. When I headed that way, there was a scuffling of feet into Isaiah's room. A little bit later I heard something in there: He was on the floor looking at a book by the light let in through the open door. Not that I ever snuck in late-night reading.

Today, Bernadette and Kateri ran into the barn. I followed them and saw Bernadette climb up on top of a trash can to move the pivoting block of wood that helps hold the door shut. Explains why the door was not shut tightly when I went there yesterday.