puppet show

A few weeks ago we got 2 big bean bag chairs shipped to us in large boxes. I kept one of the boxes assuming Parker would enjoy playing with it. It sat around for a while (in the dining room, much to Bob's horror) until the lightbulb came on over Parker's head...and she decided it could be a puppet show theater. She gave me a lengthy description of how I should make it, doors, windows, curtains, etc. Bob actually did the cutting, and even put a little dongle from the ceiling fan on the door. I made the curtains.

I guess she's made a puppet out of bag at school, or seen it done, because she specifically requested one and got to work decorating it. I would have used a sock, myself.

A play with Dog puppet and Sack puppet
(before curtain installation)

Another play with Dog puppet and Boris...with curtains.

The thing I was dreading about the theater was that I would be expected to produce puppet shows...but no, my job is just to be the audience. She doesn't have a lot of skills as a playwrite yet though, so just watching wasn't exactly a piece of cake.

Long time, no blogging

I'm behind on blogging again. I don't know where my time goes to. Here are some cute pictures of Parker to make up for it. We are most likely getting a haircut this week sometime. She loves her long hair, but it really needs a good trim. I'm thinking of having the hair dresser blow it straight so she'll think it got longer.

She is really enjoying school....this week her 'job' is Exercise Leader - so she rolls a die that has different exercises on it, and everyone does them, including the teacher. Last week she was Line Leader. That was a good week.
They no longer nap at school, so she is extra high maintenance by the end of the day, and even more so by the end of the week. I'm trying to find errands across town to do after school so she'll take a little cat nap in the car. If she were to nap at home, she'd be impossible to wake up...but then when she did, she'd be bouncing off the walls until 10pm.
A couple of her latest questions - asked on the way to school after she woke up at 6am and I was still groggy:
* Where is outer space?
* Does Jesus have a cat?

This past weekend we did a 10k run as a family....sort of. I ran with a friend, and Bob ran and pushed Parker in the stroller. We had to haul her out of bed at 6am to get there in time, and she was pretty sleepy, but did really well in the stroller - Bob often runs with her on saturday mornings and keep her content by putting Sponge Bob cartoons on his video ipod. This was Bob's first race ever, and he did really well, he is training for a marathon in December. At the end of the race, they had lots of good eats and drinks...pizza, ice cream, cookies and cold beer! In the picture I'm saying "smile Parker". She never listens to me.