El Rocks!

El just received her TAKS scores for 4th grade.  She achieved "Commended Performance", the highest level, on all three areas of the test!  The test covered math, reading, and writing. For the written portion she earned a perfect score.  Rock on El!  OK, proud Mom will stop bragging now.

Sleeping Beauty Rock On...

Here is another clip from Sleeping Beauty's concert.  For this song she did not sing a known song.  You will notice that she is looking around the room.  She is using what she sees to make up the lyrics.  

Officer on deck!

El has been a busy girl this spring.  She served on Student Council this year and was elected as Secretary of Student Council for 5th grade.  This is the position she wanted and won by a landslide (it helped that she ran unopposed).  

The 4-H club also had it's elections.  This year she served as Reporter.  She was elected into the 2nd Vice President position for next year.  Way to go, El!

Weird but true story:

I have been getting calls from (I presume) a bill collector.  The calls are for Veronica Marks.  The other day I was finally fed up and spoke quite harshly that the caller needed to remove this phone number from their files.  El inquired about the conversation.  I explained why I was annoyed.  She then went off to grab her latest writing endeavor.  She returned with a grin and said, "Look Mom, the main character in my latest story is Veronica Marks!".  Isn't that odd??? What are the chances?

Dance Ballerina Dance!

For Daddy's birthday we had the pleasure of attending El's ballet recital.  The video shows the dress rehearsal and the recital.  

Luau

Yesterday we went to a Luau at the Lazy River in the area where we will be living eventually. There was food, drink, magician, water slide, swimming, live music, etc.  The picture below is a caricature drawn by an artist at the party.  As we entered the pool area Eva exclaimed, "This is going to be the best party ever!"  

My Young Poet

For teacher appreciation week the students were to write a Thank You note to their teacher on Friday.  El and her teacher, Mrs. Tilley, both enjoy writing.  So El decided to write her a poem about writing.  Here it is.

Writing

In a dash

Ink spreads upon the page

Leaving drops behind 

As the writer plunges their character

Through poverty and disaster

Or simply frolicking and galavanting through a field

The writer copes with surrounding nudniks

Just to record the words

Of an untold tale.

Waiting for Prince Phillip

This is where we often find Eva.  When the house gets too quiet we know it is time to find our sleeping princess.  She is most often found on the stairs or in her bed, arms crossed, with a rose on her chest.  She will stay there quietly for an amazing amount of time!  The other afternoon it was quite solemn, so I called her down for a snack.  She did not reply so I went to kiss her awake. What I found was that she had stayed waiting long enough to actually fall asleep!

Sleeping Beauty Rocks

We have had about two weeks of Princess  Aurora.  She found her sisters bed and guitar and had her own jam session.  This is just one of many songs I enjoyed that evening.  I chose to post this one as it is the princess's signature song.