The Lonle Cat

Now that Caden is in the 2nd grade he has homework every night. And since Kayla is just in Kindergarten, she never has homework other than light reading each night. Our normal after school routine is come home, get a snack, play or watch TV for about 20 minutes and then we start homework (Caden's homework). I don't let Kayla watch TV while Caden is doing his homework because he just gets too distracted, even if he is in the other room. So she usually just hangs out and colors or something. Last week she decided to write a book. Introducing "The Lonle Cat".

The Lonely Cat


The cat had no one to play with.




Then the cat came to a castle.



Then the cat found a friend.

Then the cats went the cat park.

Then the cats went to get some ice cream.

Then the cats ate the ice cream.

Then they lived happy ever after.

The End




She wrote it all by herself (obviously) although my spelling isn't much better. She only asked me one question. "Do you spell found with ou or ow?"

Kayla has written several books. She is just an easy kid like that. Give her some paper and she's content for hours. LOVE HER! Our other 2 kids are the opposite, so I will embrace and enjoy the low key child that she is.

Children's Festival

We rounded out the summer fun with the Children's Festival in downtown Frankfurt. 10 Kids, 3 mommies, a beautiful sunny day in August and lots of free activities was our recipe for fun.

The crew

Caden running in the fountain

Kayla making a few laps

Avery splashing

Kayla relaxing

Avery warming up with Kim

One of the MANY bouncy houses

Kayla climbing up the net

Caden at the top

Caden resting on the naked lady statue

Avery exploring

A posing Kayla

Kayla doing a little engineering

Caden collecting balls to send down Kayla's tunnel

The bucket slide was the big hit.

Can you imagine a ride like this in the U.S.? No rails, no buckles, just stick you kid in and let 'em go.

Caden was with the big kids group at the bull ride, climbing wall and other rides, so I didn't get as many pictures of him.

We had a great day in downtown Frankfurt.

A Haunted Surprise

It's been a busy few weeks since the kids have been back in school. I know. It should be the other way around and I should have more time on my hands. But somehow time has gotten away from me. In time I will catch up on this blog. For now, I will start with some of the things we did over the summer.

The kids called me upstairs for a surprise. All of the lights were turned out and I saw Kayla standing still as a statue like this.......

I know I was supposed to be scared, but I couldn't help but laugh. For some odd reason I found her "cute" in her morbid costume.

Cade then jumped out at me.

The room was set up with lots of scarey things like this ghost.

The scarey ghost.....

....was just a horse.

I was glad to see them having fun together and using their imagination, considering they are usually fighting. It was a nice surprise.