six-year-old logic

Jordan's class had a big 100th day of school celebration not too long ago (sorry, I can't remember the exact day of the 100th day of school).

For his homework he filled in this questionnaire:

If I had a hundred…

If I had a hundred dollars, I would buy candy

If I had a hundred pencils, I would write with them.

If I had a hundred mosquito bites, I would put ice on them.

If I had a hundred friends, I would play with them.

If I had a hundred legs, I would walk with them.

If I had a hundred eyes, I would see with them.

If I had a hundred Moms, I would play with all of them.

If I had a hundred dads, I would play with them too.

If I had a hundred computers, I would play games

If I had a hundred books, I would read them.

Then in class, the children made a 100th day book. It had cute activities like counting to 100 by 2s, 10s, etc. And the last page was another little questionnaire.

Jordan said,

I could eat 100 M&Ms.

I could eat 100 pizzas.

I could eat 100 spaghettis (he later clarified that to mean "scoops" of spaghetti").

But I could never eat 100 sweets (meaning candies).

M&Ms aren't sweets or candy? What are they, then?

Gotta love 6 year old logic!

this and that

[ winter: hello, goodbye, hello again ]

The last couple of days we've had some lovely weather. It's still cold in the mornings and evenings but the days have been really pleasant. It's been so warm over the past 2 days, in fact, that most of the snow in the front yard has melted. Today (Feb. 13), another snowstorm moved in. It's blustery and windy and hard to see. The first pictures are from my sister's house. The last one is looking out the window of Jordan's bedroom at the storm today.




This winter has been reminiscent of the winters I remember growing up. A storm every few days, and more than 3 inches of snow in the yard! As far as I am aware, we have not had any inversions so bad that the children have to stay inside during recess time.

My sister and brother-in-law win the award for having the most snow. I went up to visit them about a week after their new daughter was born and I couldn't believe how much snow they had.

[ farewell, president hinckley ]

The media coverage for President Hinckley was incredible. I bought the Deseret News the day after he passed away and plan to make a scrapbook page. He has been the only prophet my children have known thus far. We watched and recorded the funeral and some other programs that Channel 5 ran about him.

[ welcome, president monson ]

It was no real surprise that President Monson is our new prophet. Steven and I were pretty sure that President Eyring would be retained. So the big question was who the other counselor would be. And it is...President Dieter Uchtdorf! Now we get to wonder who the new Apostle will be. April 2008 General Conference should be quite interesting!



[ science fair ]

The science fair was on Feb. 7th. We worked right up until it was time to go to get everything ready. Note to Mommy: do NOT procrastinate next year! Christie's project was research on the relationships between the sun, moon and earth. Jordan's was about the water cycle. They both got participation awards and Jordan got a special participation certificate that was given to K, 1, and 2 students.





[ winter blahs ]

This week Christie, Jordan and I have all come down with colds. Not fun.

[ church ]

Not much new here. I'm still teaching the Deaf Valiant class and assistant music leader and Steven teaches the 2nd/3rd Sunday Priesthood lessons.

[ work ]

Again, not much new here. I'm still working on various projects for Deaf Mentor and Steven's doing his usual at Sorenson.