Allison’s collection

She tried collecting stamps for a while, but we could never quite get the stamp hinges to work in holding them in a book, so she grew discouraged on that. But she’s taken on a new collection: business cards! She’s got a book with business card sleeves to put them in, no problem. But somehow, I doubt she’ll ever complete the collection…

Prize-winning Allison

We attended the monthly awards ceremony at her school (2nd and 3rd grade division), where she took Student Of The Month. Careful Allison trackers will recall that she took home this award in April as well.

The girl is seven

On Thursday, Allison turned seven (and thank you to all who sent along your well wishes!) We had a dinner out at her choice of places on Wednesday (she had Brownies schedule for Thursday), and she surprised us by choosing Olive Garden (despite her not remembering whether she ate there before.) She took cupcakes to school for fellow studens on Thursday, as well as to Brownies that night.

But today was the BIg Party. Eight kids were invited, five arrived (all of the ones which where we gave the invite to the parent, rather than to the kid to take home; there’s a lesson there somewhere.) There were four boys and one girl, while the accompanying parents who hung around were four women and one guy.  The children chased each other inside a bouncy house with a giant inflatable hammer marked “Princess”. They wielded a baseball bat against a poor, helpless papier mache, beating the beast until its guts spewed Almond Joys and Heath Bars. They turned each other into zombies, decorated their own cupcakes, consumed cartoonishly oversized pizza, and played frisbee golf with flying disks with their names written in Sharpie and the date and location of our wedding printed on the disk. They each left with a kite, a balloon, a dozen bouncy balls, a blank comic, and a non-blank comic. Happiness seem to have been had by all.

And we were left in good situation, as this event got us finally taking care of some things in the back yard – the furrows of the old garden have been tilled away, the pieces of the used jungle gym we bought and gave up on figuring out now stowed in the narrow gated side yard, the weeds beaten down to a managable level. The backyard has never been this clear in all the time we’ve lived here.

And the girl is proudly seven.

Prize-winning Allison

Allison took second place in her age group at the local Halloween festival for her (admittedly store-bought) Daphne-from-Scooby-Doo costume. The prize includes various free McDonalds treats, a pass to Six Flags Magic Mountain amusement park, free bowling certificates, and such. Quite proud, she was.

Ahem

That is all.

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dictated by Allison

Because you would’ve demanded it, had you known – Allison presents: Pony Girls issue 1

Here is the first issue of Allison’s new comic book!

PONY GIRLS: The American Horse Flag. By Allison. Written by Nat. (Note: by “written” she means “lettering”, and in this case just later in the issue.)

Once upon a time, there were 6 teens. Chendal, Alki, Lolly, Olson, Ashley, and… Georgia. But one day, a wizard creeped up on them……..

and turned them half horse… except for Georgia. Now it’s up to Georgia to rescue her friends. Will she?

(That first piece of dialog is from the wizard, in a cave.)

Stay tuned for issue 2, coming soon, if she decides to do it!

Allison the Engineer

Allison requested that I post this plan to her blog.

For this project, she will need a deep pot – she was asking if we have an old rusty one, but we do not – and a chocolate coin wrapped in gold foil. The coin is to be place in the bottom of the pot.

So what is this device?, you may wonder. It’s a leprerchaun trap. The leprechaun will see the coin, not realize it’s chocolate, go into the pot to get it, and then not be able to get back out because the pot is deep.

As for what we are to do with a pot with a leprechaun and chocolate in it, well, that’s a question which I’ve not dared to ask.

Allison’s journal

At school, they have Allison write a page per day – a few short sentences in large handwriting. Here are a few selections from February (I am restoring original spelling, against the teacher’s corrections):

On the week end I had a super bowl party. My dad’s freinds wached the super bowl while men and my freind FOX and his Brother Grifin played in the play room. When it was almost half time me and dad put mentose in cocke.

My new friend at school is Nevaeh. Nevaeh and I often play together. I love Nevaeh. Nevah loves me. I will give her a valentine.

If I went to the rain forest I would explore. I would take picturs. Rain forests are beaing cut down help rain forests by donating to your locl animal shelter.

And my favorite of this batch:

I know a lot about fogs. Frogs leap vary far. Male frogs have a bubble. If evry one of us in the school was a frog I would perfer to stay that way.

One girl minus one tooth

Allison got her first visit from the tooth fairy last night. And she’s happy because now she can whistle!

You should see the other guy!