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Abe walks/runs/whams into another kid’s head on the way to the bus at the end of the day.
I mean … he had a battle with a very vicious tiger!
Mom is home sleeping in a delightful nap… with cell phone silenced.
Neighbor Condie rings doorbell to deliver message from Jimmy that Abe needs to be picked up from school from a gash in his head.
Mom feeling lame that she’s sleeping through it all.
Runs to get Hannah & Abe from school and arranges to take Abe straight to pediatrician.
Hears the story about so much blood dripping down Abe’s face.
Hannah watches tots at home.
Abe has anxiety about the thought of stitches.
Nurse cleans wound with extra care.
Doctor MacArthur determined it wasn’t deep enough for stitches, but thought glue would help it heal better.
Ahhh… Abe feels much better about glue.
Article Circle for a sundae.
Less than an hour later, Abe returns home with a nice Frankenstein look!

Signs of Spring I see all around:
Popcorn Popping on our Flowering Pear Tree (liza loves!)
8 tulips blooming
Walks along the trail
Swinging up so high (bare feet!)
Dandelions presented to mother by the littles (best thing ever!)
Moose & Daisy, the English Bulldogs across the street, are outside once again.
Ziza & Tru are Friends. She helps him as he learns to ride Max’s bike. (see her Indian Corn Necklace!)
Gardening… well, ridding the garden of overgrown grass. Prep for yummy veggies coming.
Basketball in the driveway… Abe learning to spin the basketball on his finger.
Short Sleeves
Greener grass!
Baby Ladybugs discovered by 4-year-olds.
Sunshine.
(& wind… but we’ll pretend like it’s warm wind.)

Miss Hannah has a Wax Museum Project coming up. For the past month she has researched and written a paper about the life of Eleanor Roosevelt. Today she presented an oral report. And on Monday they are statues in a wax museum for the students and parents to attend.

She put together this classic outfit. The fedora hat was recycled from the Milton Hershey project… only girlified a bit. She does look darling! Last night she practiced her oral report for the family. We learned that Eleanor was called ‘granny’ by her mother because she was such a plain and old-fashioned child. Both of her parents died before she was 10 years old. She married her fifth-cousin-once-removed… and didn’t have to change her last name. They had 6 children, one of whom died when he was seven months old, Franklin Jr. She also named her second-to-last-child Franklin Jr. She died of tuberculosis and was buried in New York City next to her husband.

This is the quote Hannah shared when talking about having to bury her baby, who was “the most beautiful of all the children.”

We decided that a nice transition from crib to big girl bed would be to take the rail off her crib. Perfect! She loved it and never even fell out. She especially loves having a pillow like the big kids. I was afraid she wouldn’t take naps anymore, but she totally did. She wouldn’t even get up from her naps by herself. She’d holler and holler for mom to come get her. Pretty soon we convinced her it was okay to get out by herself. She shares a room with Truman and Max and has the same night time routine as the boys… teeth, prayer, song, kiss. The only difference between her and the boys is that she delights in talking when going to bed. Such a girl!

This past weekend we switched her from the big girl crib to a twin bed. The end of Max’s bed butts up with hers so she is well protected from falling out. She loves being a big girl. Sometimes she gets out of bed at night and tells us she has to go poop. So she’ll sit on the potty for a while. The other night she read books and actually went. Now she just thinks it’s an excuse to get out of bed. But she quickly runs back to bed when we count to 3. Oh Liza!