That is Stone Soup for all of you that don't know first grade Spanish..which would include me. For a little while I thought Lena's class was doing a play about the soap that some dude named Pedro uses. However, it was not a play about soap. It was a play about stone soup and Lena was Narrator #1 (or numero uno for those playing at home) along with two other classmates. As par for the course, she approached her job very seriously...no smile was cracked the entire time. She wore a little bonnet with a string and throughout the entire performance she stroked and fiddled with the tie. It reminded me of another member of our family (who shall remain nameless) that when nervous/perplexed/bored scrapes scrapes scrapes his whiskers. You'd think I was living with an emery board...scrape scrape scrape. Anyhoo...Lena did awesome and when I asked her if she was nervous she said, "No...I just imagined no one was there!" Good technique!
Explaining the gist of the story...
Getting ready for her part...
Oh she spotted me! Is that a smile? Nope, not quite...there's no smiling in acting...
Afterwards the parents and siblings were invited back to the class while the kids finished up the day. As the teacher read a story the siblings were invited to sit and draw at the desk. Lena scooched on over and Annika got a taste of what first grade might be like. One mom leaned over and asked if I had a hard time telling their baby pictures apart because they sure look alike now.
The answer to her question was yes I do...I need to look at the date on the picture. Later I got to thinking...that must not be entirely true...surely I can tell my own children apart. I went back through some pictures to prove to myself that I have a mind like a steel trap. Sadly, I don't think I do. Do you?
Lena or Annika?
5 comments:
first photo is Annika, second one is Lena....am I right, am I right? Do I win a prize?
Oh I forgot to send you Lena pictures...I'll get on it...soon...but who knows when...I haven't even done my Christmas cards yet! 1) Annika 2) Lena Suburban Chicana will have to share her prize with me!
Of course yu can tell, silly! Number 1 is Annika and 2 is Lena, right?
You guys are GOOD! I may be calling on your in years to come when my memory fails even more:)!!
I think the first is Annika and the second is Lena...its in the eyes. I'm going to go take all my kids pictures out of the frames and write their names on the back, because I too think..."Oh, I will never forget that!"
:)
Oops. I just read your other posts. But I want to clarify that the text above was my original text. I did not cheat :)
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