Snow Days

Dondi sent this to me while all of Texas was under snow & ice for a week.  It wasn't only the ice it was also the -7 degrees for 2 days that had everyone on edge.  It just doesn't get that cold around here.  Our heater had a really hard time keeping up.  We were very fortunate to not lose power.  Many people around Texas did. 

We spent 3 days straight hanging out in the basement

Chris put up sheets to keep the heat in. All 4 Prathers got the stomach bug during this shut down. We took turns and no one had it at the same time. Good news is we didn't have to take a sick day.  

On Friday I took the neighbors and the girls up to my school to burn off some energy. Here are some ways we kept busy. 

We watched a lot of 90's Disney's movies

Face Painting

Coloring

Ali took TONS of Pictures of PIP

Ali gave her Doll a make over

Ali made a barbie movie

Chris threw boiling water to show the girls how fast water freezes at -7 degrees

Ali played school with her animal class. I heard her say " Everyone get on your sit spot and if you don't learn these colors you are not going to graduate!"

Chris got the girls boxes to play with.  Ali put the American Flag on hers.  She had the family say the Pledge of Allegiance.

She is like a cat.

On Saturday after a full week of freezing rain and snow it lifted and it was beautiful outside.  Ali asked for "donut hair".

Caroline got a new scooter for her birthday and she was able to finally play on it.

Ali had to work a cookie booth.  She did really good.

I wore my Cookie earrings from Dondi

Caroline got to have a horse lesson in the indoor arena 

Ali drew this for Chris. He was matching all our family socks. She even drew the fan going around. all the orange circles are all the socks laid out in the living room.

The girls got some donations for cookies.  We donated our cookies to the nursing home by our school.

Main Event Birthday Party

Caroline’s 9th birthday party was so much fun! Devyn, Deacon & Ali made Caroline feel important and made her birthday very special.

Ali really liked bowling and the snacks

Jurassic Park Cake

Laser tag was really fun!

Ali and I went and started playing games.  Chris took the other 3 to play lasers. 

Here are their Laser tag names:

Caroline- Rocket

Devyn- Lighting

Deacon- Blaze

Chris- Voldemort 

 

What a great party!

Caroline is 9!

Happy 9th birthday to our adventurous, intelligent, witty, kind, beautiful Care Bear

This morning we woke up to extremely icy roads so her "Happy Birthday Caroline" donuts that were going to her class we delivered to the neighbors.  

Caroline is constantly learning new things. She loves reading non-fiction books about animals, the planets, & dinosaurs & biographies. She reads fictions too.  She just started reading Harry potter 6. At the library she will check out the first 3 books in a series and commit to reading them.  She creates worlds with her sisters and friends with legos, card board boxes and Minecraft.

She is really creative with technology.  She is a tech-pert in her class.  Once a month she gets pulled by the technology specialist who teaches her new ways to support the teacher.  Caroline usually gets IPADS, Apple TVs and computers fixed and ready to go.  She has even helped me with a Keynote presentation for a guidance lesson this year 

Caroline found a calculator that she put in her pocket like a phone.... She is a mess. 

She is so incredibly kind.  I hear this complement constantly from her teacher and friends.  She makes sure everyone is included and it is fair.  

She is very coordinated and adventurous.  I think she willed herself to grow this last time in Florida because she wanted to ride roller coasters.  She  has amazing balance and is very fast.   I watched in PE where her class was playing a relay type game and she was smoking the boys.  She loves to play basketball even though she is the smallest on her team she is scrappy.

Likes:

Chili with fritos (No Cheese)

Breakfast foods (All of them)

Peanut butter Crackers

Dried Strawberries

She knows what kinds of food she likes and doesn't deviate to much from her favorites

Horses

Legos 

Face timing her family

Volunteering at the animal shelter

Jumping, Climbing & racing

Favorite books:

Harry Potter, The Bad Guy Series, The "Who Was..." books 

Movies & Shows:

Jurassic Park- Camp Cretaceous,

Harry Potter, Cookie Swirl Z

She loves making slime

and taking weird pictures

Her Best friend is Devyn from next door and Ali.

Favorite friends she is always talking about from school:

Natalie, Izzy, Elody, Reagan

Dislikes:

Injustices - She does not like it when things are not fair

Being embarrassed.  

Wearing socks with shoes

Her food mixing

In November she was baptized and every night she prays she will be a light to her class and her school.  She shines so bright. 

We love you so much Caroline