Sunday = church. She made a boat out of a sponge, a toothpick, and a piece of paper that she decorated for a sail, because the Gospel reading today was about Jesus and Peter walking on water. She also proved that she can actually sing along with the hymns when I point to each word if she feels like it. (She picks up on tunes pretty fast, actually.) Oh, and the children's bulletin had a crossword in it, and she read and answered the first two question, but then she didn't want to write the answers in. (??)
After church = coffee hour at the park. She played on the playground for a while.
Today was extra exciting, because we went to a community theater production of Hairspray! She and I heard a commercial for it on the radio earlier this last week, so I looked it up. We both have the movie pretty much memorized, so I figured she'd like it. She was so excited and just kind of in amazed awe, and definitely dancing at certain points. She got a little antsy in the middle, especially during the parts that weren't in the movie, but she did quite admirably for a 5-year-old Lucy. (She wore her noise-cancelling earmuffs -- these are an absolute must for us at any kind of busy or loud event, especially theaters of any sort. She just does not handle loud noises well. Like, if you're reading this, and your kid has any kind of noise sensitivity, do yourself a favor, and just buy some, and let them wear them. Ignore the parts where 1.) they look out of place, and 2.) they are normally associated with your kid having some sort of diagnostic label. Just give them the earmuffs and make everyone's life easier and better.)
We also met a couple of the actors afterward. (They were all standing around on stage, so I asked if she wanted to talk to them, and she's not shy!)
While we were waiting for the play to start, she read The Great Big Book of Families to herself. (Which is a really great book that we picked up from the library. Detailed illustrations that are fun to look at, and it does a great job of showing all different kinds of families -- including talking about the range of socioeconomic privilege -- very simply, straightforwardly, and without judgment.)
And on the way home she perused the playbill with the actors' info.
After we got home, she built this, which she called her "dream office".
During dinner she was looking at the calendar (a current fascination), and decided to spell out Labor Day so I wouldn't know what she was saying (like Norman and I do around her sometimes -- this drives her CRAZY). She read the letters off just right. I didn't really know she could do that.
We read Grover and the Everything in the Whole Wide World Museum before bed.
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