October

In October I'll be host
To witches goblins and a ghost
I feed them chicken soup and toast
Whoopy once Whoopy twice
Whoopy chicken soup with rice!

Fiora memorized this poem she learned in Kindergarten. She likes to memorize poems. Ask her to recite one for you sometime.
I had a parent teacher conference with Savanna's teacher and he said she's fun to have in class and is the best story writer in class. Savanna has had a lot of practice at writing stories. Her preferred past-time is to be hunched over a ream of paper creating a story and illustrating it. I never know whether to save the results or chuck them. There are just so many! I've started encouraging her to make stories on the computer so she doesn't use so much paper. Some of her stories are pretty funny, with some fighting scenes and some love scenes. I thought this story looked pretty interesting, but she hid it under her bed before she wrote any dialogue:





I wouldn't mention this to her if I were you. She gets pretty embarrassed about certain things still, I imagine mom snooping under her bed and finding an unfinished story would be one of those things.
I'd like to take this opportunity to thank Jesse and Kelsy and Wendy and Ashlyn for watching our kids for us while we went to Park City to celebrate our 9th anniversary. We had a wonderful time. Jared showered me with gifts! I'm so glad he has stuck with me all these years. We are very blessed.