Notes and stories

Perhaps one of my favorite new things that Riley seems to be very into lately is writing notes and stories.  There are so many, I wouldn't be able to post them all, but I thought these were funny and sweet.  The two on the dry erase board were just spur of the moment notes that she decided to write one night while we were playing after dinner.  Each time, she wouldn't let us look until she was done with the note.

During that time (and to a slightly lesser extent now) she wants the new baby's name to be Evan.  I also love the artwork with the one to Brenna, especially the Star of David.  She had been drawing flags earlier and one was the Israel flag. :)

This story is something that she wrote one night while we were gone - she was home with the babysitter.  We saw it later and asked our babysitter if she had helped her at all and she said no!  She said Riley did it all by herself (I think it might have been while she was putting Brenna to bed or something).  It was in a challenge packet that her teacher gave her.  The instructions were just to write a story about something that happened in the fall.  Anyway, it was so funny to us that I have to share.

It says "Once upon a time there was a girl and her name was Riley and she loved her friends and what she wanted to do on halloween was go trick-or-treating and eat all her treats but her mom & dad didn't let her but only what she could do was cry and then she did and then she was so sad and then she went upstairs and then she went to bed and then the next morning she had one treat and her mom & dad thought that was a great idea.  the end."

Since then (this was done in November), she has gotten better at making her stories more than one long run-on sentence!  As part of her homework she gets the opportunity to write stories along with illustrations, which is great.  I love seeing what she comes up with (pictures and stories).

There go her tooth!

Riley went upstairs to brush her teeth before bed on Wednesday night (January 8) and I heard her yell down "my tooth fell out!!"  She was so excited.  The first thing we did was take lots of pictures!  This is the best one we got.  As Tagga brought to my attention, it looks a little like Jack Nicholson from the Shining!

So we made sure she didn't lose it, she finished getting ready for bed, and then she wrote another note to the tooth fairy.  She made sure to mention the sugar plum topping again. :)

It says "Dear tooth fairy, My ^sweet^ tooth came out.  Are you so happy to get it?  Love, Riley P.S. I prefer to have a candy cane with sugar plum flavoring on top."  

She made an envelope and put her note and her tooth in it and put it under her pillow.  She was SO excited when she woke up the next morning and got a note back from her Tooth Fairy (Toothitrudy), who gave her a candy cane minus the sugar plum flavoring (she explained that Santa used it all up!), and a coin to put in her piggy bank.  

Riley's tooth!

While at my Aunt Fran & Uncle Kevin's house on December 28, 2013 we discovered that Riley has her first loose tooth!!  I actually didn't notice it first, though.  While eating something, she told John's mom that her tooth was hurting so Gramie gets the credit for figuring it out!!

At first Riley was very upset about it but after a little while got used to the idea and got really excited about it.  She must have thought of the book Silverlicious because as soon as we got home she wrote this letter to the tooth fairy!  (*SPOILER ALERT* In Silverlicous, Pinkalicious loses her sweet tooth and ends up getting lots of candy from different characters!).  We thought it was pretty funny, especially since we have never actually mentioned the existence of the tooth fairy, or Riley getting anything from her.

"Dear tooth Fairy, I have a wiggly tooth and it's really loose. Love, Riley

P.S. I prefer to have a candy cane with sugar plum flavor on top"

As of today, it is still there but has gotten more and more wiggly. :)  We haven't decided what we are going to do yet when it actually comes out!