Spider Girl

Lexie has decided that she is half human and half jumping spider.  Where she got the idea, I'm not really sure.  This morning, after we finished her four homework questions, she was sitting with me and telling me that there was a "fellow" jumping spider in the library yesterday.  She related their conversation, then thought about it and said, "Actually, I couldn't talk with him, because I'm half human."


Saturday, Lex and I went bowling with John, Shannon and Bill.  She's starting to enjoy it pretty much.

First Grade

I'm upset with myself for not keeping up with this sprite blog.  I have a new resolution to do better at it.  Lex started first grade last Tuesday. She loves it, but she comes home so tired from the extra hours. 

 

Almost exactly at the same time, both Lex and John thought up the idea of a webcast for Lex.  Unfortunately, they picked me as the camera girl, so while I've got some great stuff, it's not edited, and I've been lazy enough to not upload it anywhere.  I'll get on that too. 

 

Lex's latest antic is to try to get Munkee, our one year old adoptee cat, into the shower.   She actually having some success.  Oh, I remember the days when I tried to get my cats into the bath/shower with me at a younger age.  It seems so much more difficult to supervise as a parent!  I remember the excitement of the project at a young age, but I'm pretty sure I was more clandestine at it than Lex is. I believe I wanted to keep it a secret from my Mom, but she actually wants my help...  and I'm not sure why, but I try. Munkee is her cat as much as mine, but she has some power over him that I'm baffled by.  He'll let her take him into the shower without so much as scrathing her, let alone tearing her to pieces.  He just comes back out and licks himself dry.  Rather stoic cat.

 

There is so much else that's been going on, I'll have to work on putting it all into this diary/blog.
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Mini Update

Lex got her first bee sting last week. Middle finger left hand. When asked if it hurt, she said it did a little at first. I'm such a baby. I remember mine hurting like crazy.

Lex "graduates" from kindergarten next week. She's pretty excited.

Her latest "thing" is the Nintendo DS [our Wii is broken :( ]. She has six different games already. They range from taking care of pets, adventure games, and her latest is a fashion plate game. She loves it.

Life is a highway, eh?

Rules of life as discovered on the highway:  In the fast lane doing 60, I'm supposed to be in the right lane, eventually, for my exit, but I feel it's moving too slow.  I figure that by the time I get up past the Pepsi truck up about 30 cars, I'll still be enough back from the tunnel to change lanes.  Goal setting.  I approach the truck minutes later, move into the center lane, then into the right lane just in front of the truck.  As my head revolves back around from checking my mirrors to change lanes...nine cars up, another Pepsi truck.  As I'm laughing at myself, I spot one log truck heading East bound, another log truck West bound.  Figure out that riddle.

Lexie Speaks! (a little)

I ask Lex if she wants to do another "Lexie Speaks," and she yells, "Yes!" Then, Lexie runs into the room, “guess what! I was playing with the cat and the string, and you know what the cat’s name is? It’s Munkee, and he’s arriving, and that’s all for the day.” As Lex giggles like crazy and runs outta de room with Munkee chasing her and a long piece of yarn. She's still giggling, It's the best!

Lexie Foos

"Well, I wanna show everyone a picture, but I have a couple words to say. Are you writing every word I say? (mom, yes) Come on, come on all my friends. everyone I know you all think I'm going to make words for you today, but I'm not actually write words to you, I'm going to show you a picture."

Back to Mom. Lexie wants to go to Hollywood. Why you ask? Because it's a cool place and according to Lex there are pop stars there and she now, just this moment, would rather go to Hawaii.

Now we're going to find a picture of something on Google. BRB

Lexie Speaks!

"Everyone:  Names family. The bestest things in the world are the greatest things.  Like candy and toys and puppies.  What can you do without them? They're the cutest things in the world. Also candy is sweet.  Do you remember our Halloween? I hope you had a great time on Halloween, when it was Halloween a long time ago. And Santa gives you toys.  So give him a thank-you on the next Christmas when he comes. Give him a cookie.  Try to see Santa.  If you give him a bite of cookie and he's gone and you didn't see him, that's ok.   He will still like you.  Also he gives you swimming pools, toys, lots of stuff. Friends are friends. If you have a friend, and go up and meet him and you see someone talking please don't interrupt.  Because they're trying to say something to somebody.  And that's all for Lexie's speech. Bye.  See you later."

Lexie Speaks!

“Did everyone like this day? I know it was kinda rainy outside. But, at the end of the day it got a little sunnier. Today was a strange day for me. Well what happened today was I got picked up by Grammy and I had to go to this school that will help me read better. And it was some guy telling me what to do. And I almost got them all right, but I did a really good job. I earned the prize to keep. It was a little parachute guy, but then I didn’t want the parachute so I took it off. Good bye.”

Lexie Speaks!

World, it's summer today, so you should be going to fun places. You could go to a swimming pool, you could play outside. You could even play outside with your friends. Think of anything you can do on these lovely days. Oh guess what, my Grammy told me today that it will be raining tomorrow, but sunny all weekend. I'm hating the rain. That's all, bye, see ya later.

Lexie Speaks!

Everyone in the whole world: Did you think of your plans yet, because I'll be here to see what your plans are today? I'll be here to read your plans and well, just be happy if you did all the things. I want to do something. Guess what. Today was fiesta day. For the whole weekend, celebrate the fiesta, and see what your parents say about the fiesta. Bye, see you later, have a great weekend of fiesta. (Mom says, "but it's not the weekend yet.) But when it is the weekend, the greatest in the world, you celebrate the people in the world. What happened to me today, I um, Mom, what is that thing called? (we go out into the living room, hook arms and spin around) Square Dancing! So if you know the square dance, then tell me what you think of the square dance. Telling the world. Could you please stop writing everything I say. Ha ha giggle giggle. I'm serious!

Junior Ranger

Lexie is now a junior ranger of the National Parks Service! The weekend before last, John took us to a National Park Family Day at Ft. Vancouver. We had a great time, Lexie especially. At the beginning of the event was an information booth where Lexie learned her 'mission.' To become a Junior Ranger she needed to go to at least five different booths to collect stamps. She colored a bear, panned for gold, visited with an owl and a turkey vulture, made a 'sea biscuit', touched a beavers tail (at which point she asked the ranger why they took it off the beaver!), made a paper bat, and looked at a vast and sundry assortment of park-ish stuff, all while learning about Northwest parks. At the end she had earned a Junior Ranger patch, pin, and signed and dated certificate with her name on it. Another fabulous weekend!

Junior Ranger

Lexie Speaks!

Every one is charms of joy, everyone is a big hug. Share. All the chipmunks and squirrels that need homes, come back to this dot-com and tell us what you have done to help the world. And it's the bestest thing to do when you help an animal. So go right to this dot.com and tell all the things you have done to help the world. It's the greatest thing! Bye! See you later!

Thanks JDK

Thank you John, Sweetie! You have always been my best friend and I will always treasure you. Lexie thinks the world of you and we will be yours forever! Lexie sends love and "when can we go do something again!" as she begrudgingly lays her head down for the night. Love!

Lexie Speaks!

Lex and I decided to try something new. We were sitting out on the back deck, her swinging in her favorite hammock swing, me sitting in a camping chair. I asked her, "If you wanted to say something to the world tonight, what would it be?" Her answer is this, "I'm a little girl, I want my mom to get married, I have superpowers but I don't tell anybody about them. And I have the bestest friends in the world. I went to Seattle, in a hotel. And I went with my new friend Jason, and that's all."

Blog promises

I've been neglecting this blog so much lately, I've wondered if the inertia would lead to the end of it. But no! I won't laze out and let it gather too many cobwebs. I have pictures and news. Lexie is doing better than ever! And so am I! We've been having a blast, and love of weekends has taken on a whole new meaning! For the last few weeks, I've been using my break-time at work to walk and listen to a fabulous book (Outliers Rocks!). Starting this next week, I'll make a serious effort to update this blog on one of my breaks. "Life is good," is and understatement. Right now, Lex is lounging and resting while re-watching The Incredibles. We got home from a wonderful trip to the beach. I'll try to parse out some of the last few weeks in the next few blogs.

Probably a video only a mother could love, but since the blog is dedicated to roller sprite... I happen to get softy towards the end when she waves at another little girl. Then she waves at Lucas, who is falling down under the camera I'm shooting the video with. She throws the thumbs up sign and rolls on.

Lexie couldn't get enough of the fact that we were going to take the train (Max) to the train.

Lexie crawls into one of the African Village exhibits at the zoo.

I have no idea where they came up with the pose. There was no direction going on by the moms.
I'm looking forward to getting Lexie's pictures developed.

Her Grammy bought her a disposable for the trip. I can't find her little cheapy Barbie digital she had a couple years ago.