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Audrey likes riddles. She got a lot of reading practice telling us the jokes from Laffy Taffy wrappers from her Halloween loot. So, last night I printed out a list of Christmas riddles that came in an e-mail from a spelling program publisher. I left it in the printer, and when I came downstairs to check my e-mail this morning, I found that the riddles had been marked up by our resident author/editor-to-be, Mary. She bracketed one of the riddles with the comment "takes longer to get" and reworded another riddle so the punchline wasn't in the question.

Original version:

Q. What do you call an Eskimo cow?

A. An Eskimoo.

Mary's version:

Q. What do you call an Alaskan cow?

A. An Eskimoo.

I just thought it was very funny that Mary, seeing a page of riddles, would assume they were there for her to comment on and improve. She's also been having lots of fun with Google Translator lately, translating Girl Scout songs into Latin. And of course, editing the result if she disagrees with Google's choice of phrasing.

Braces off!

Mary has something extra to be thankful for this Thanksgiving: no more braces! She celebrated by eating Laffy Taffy, and biting into a whole (not sliced) apple. How was the apple? "Satisfying."

Here's where we started, over a year ago:

Zome bubble fun

Every time Mary finishes a unit in math, she gets a change of pace. Today it was making bubbles with Zome tools.


Mary did most of the building, and Audrey did most of the dipping.


The spiral was hard to figure out from the illustration in the book. I helped out with that one.


Here it is, the amazing bubble square.

Halloween

All dressed up for the neighborhood party:


Audrey was the first one to bob for apples.


Stephen came over to go trick-or-treating on the hayride around our neighborhood.


Lucy decided to try her hand, I mean her teeth, at carving a pumpkin.

Owl Pellets

Mary has finished reading the entire Harry Potter series, and has started watching the movies. She wanted to do some Harry Potter related lessons, so today we dissected owl pellets, so we would find out what our Owl Post owls have been eating.

The pellet is a regurgitated wad of fur and bones:


Audrey didn't mind using her fingers to pull it apart, but Mary preferred to use the tools.



Audrey found lots of tiny bones, including top and bottom jaws with sharp little teeth.


Mary's owl ate something bigger. We found a section of tail in her pellet.

Pumpkin Carving