We recently finished reading Ramona the Pest by Beverly Cleary to the boys. They enjoyed it a lot and one of our new favorite things to say comes from the book. In it Ramona has to do these worksheets where she circles pictures that begin with the /s/ sound and cross out pictures that don't. She also applies this procedure to things she does and doesn't like. For instance, when she's mad at her classmate she thinks, "Circle Ramona, cross out Susan." Now that Clara's three, we can cross out two and circle three.
Here are the birthday pictures Joel helped me out with on Saturday. We would have taken a lot more pictures, but it was raining for part of the time, and we all (including the kids) walked away with about 10 mosquito bites each. We took the pictures at Grandma Rass's house, so I guess it doesn't matter whether you live in a nice neighborhood on the east bench or down in the swamps of Utah Lake - you can't escape the mosquitos.
Happy Birthday, Clara!
