Thursday, September 25, 2014

We recently found the Disney vacation planning DVD (which Mommy may or may not have placed on top of a tall bookshelf and then forgotten about), so she watched that this morning.

Also some Phineas and Ferb.

Also watched Norman play Mario Galaxy.

And then they figured out that if you lay the Wii-mote down on the couch and then bounce on the couch cushion, Mario will move. There was some hypothesizing and experimentation with this, apparently.

She got out an old rubber stamp I had given her and asked if she could use her stamp pads (which I had put up high after she used them on the walls quite a while ago). I told her she could use them at the kitchen table and gave them to her, but then she told me to leave. So of course I had to ask what she was planning on doing with them, and she eventually told me she wanted to stamp her books like she was a librarian (and she clearly thought I wouldn't let her). We compromised: I told her she could, if she promised to only stamp the front inside covers, of only her books, and to put them back on the shelves when she was done. She agreed and followed through! See, daughter? Truth! Compromise! These are the great virtues!

She spent literally hours outdoors today. Doing who knows what. Taking the old hose and winding it in some sort of weird obstacle course path all around her play fort, for one. And more house lizard catching schemes, of course. Hanging out on the swings, singing and talking.

Oh and she used the phrase "brave of" as the opposite of "scared of". Like, "the house lizards are brave of cats, so why aren't they brave of us?" :-)

She told me she wants to make an apple pie, so that will be next week.

I remember that she wanted to light the candle during dinner (something they'd talked about in Sunday School), and when Dotty asked why we were lighting it, Lucy said, "It means the spirit of the Lord," and then she said a lovely prayer to bless our food and pray for those who don't have enough food.

She watched a Phineas and Ferb episode where they went to England, and Candace was channeling Sherlock Holmes for his superior busting abilities, so Lucy got a hat and her magnifying glass and went around the house noticing clues, and I had to wear a different hat and follow her around taking notes and telling her how awesome she is.

We read a book about the founding of the Girl Scouts and practiced saying the Girl Scout Promise (which she's supposed to memorize).