The girls have been successful this season. Peach Pie got 1st place in her backstroke at the Joplin meet! They’re looking forward to the championship in August.
And in that unsupervised moment, the Scooter Pies move like cheetahs, each grab their own stick of butter, and run outside to devour the smooth and delicious golden treat.
Every four years the we reenact the Pioneer trek to Utah. It’s meant for the youth (ages 14-18) to gain an appreciation for their Pioneer heritage as well as strengthen their testimonies of Jesus Christ.
I stayed home with the babies this time, but the Man of the House went as a company captain.
Blueberry Pie wore a sombrero the whole time and made lots of Mexican jokes. He and Cherry Pie pushed and pulled their hand carts about 13 miles over three days, camped each night, and cooked with Dutch ovens.
While I was gone from home from 4 days, the Man of the House did this:
“I worked all day cleaning the garage to protect the cars from the baseball-sized hail that was predicted. But the hail never materialized. This is the first time ever that cars have been parked in the garage in the 12 years we’ve lived in this house!”
Key Lime Pie and her friends got to ring the bell today, marking their graduation from 2nd grade to 3rd Grade. Brookie, Eleas, Lydia, Julia and Zoey is officially a 4th grader! Congratulations girls for all of your hard work! Now we are moving on up! You are the sweetest girls and I love all of you! I am so thankful that you are such good friends!
Banana Cream Pie is 5&1/2. Sometimes she sits by me during our morning school time while I read aloud and the big girls and I repeat the scriptures, poems, and Shakespeare passages that we are memorizing. Often though, she is playing or not even in the room with us, or repeatedly interrupting to tell me she wants to play with the kindle or is hungry.
One day as we repeated our review poems, she said, “You forgot the one about ‘bread lasts only a day’.” So we added The Human Touch by Spencer Michael Free to our review for the day.
For exams, I had each of the big girls recite the 3 Shakespeare passages we worked on from Midsummer Night’s Dream. Pumpkin Pie got stuck after “The eye of man hath not heard, The ear of man hath not seen…”
And suddenly, Banana Cream Pie piped up with “‘Man’s hand is not able to taste’, ya-doi!”
Then today, Peach Pie was lying on the trampoline, and Banana Cream Pie knelt next to her and patted her cheek and said: “Asleep my love? What dead, my dove? This cherry nose, These onion bunion cheeks..”
Wild laughter ensued.
Proof Positive that five-year-olds can enjoy Shakespeare and get his jokes or make their own from his.
I took her into the school for Kindergarten screening and they were impressed that she knew all of her alphabet letters. They didn’t even ask if she could recite Shakespeare!
Marvelous Pigs in Satin 