Glasses are in....sooo sophisticated

Fairy Tale Mix Up

Ithan Elementary Drama Club production of Fairy Tale Mix Up

A Few Bed Time Stories

Ella Sarah Gets Dressed and Where is the Green Sheep
by Daddy and Olivia Simons
Originally Aired on Princess TV October 2005

http://youtu.be/1VDvBfirBEM

A Perfect umm 10??

Olivia had a presentation project at school this year that required her to research and prepare a 3 minute presentation on someone who was influential in the 19th century. Olivia choose Nadia Comaneci since she was the first person to score a perfect 10 in competitive gymnastics and she defected from the communist Romania in 1989. Olivia did a lot of research and learned so much about Nadia as a gymnast, but also as a symbol of hope for political freedom.

Olivia prepared a presentation and of course mom and dad got in the mix. As part of the presentation Olivia needed a board to post facts to support the presentation. Mom came up with the idea of a 10 and of course dad said, "An I can put lights on it!!"

The "10" is significant because when Nadia got the first ever 10 on bars the score board read "1.0" because there was never a 10 before they did not even make a scoreboard to read 10. At first Nadia's coach thought the judges gave her a 1, but after a few moments they explained it was a 10 but the board just could not show it correctly. So if you look at the board Olivia made it is a 10, but notice the decimal place in the middle that makes it appear as a "1.0" It was a cool idea and we all had fun with it.

Olivia did a great presentation and got a 12/12 on her presentation.

Red Rose Classic

Beam 9.6 Vault 9.4 Floor 9.2 Bars 8.4
2nd All Around

And the 10th Birthday Celebration Continues

Due to the snow storm that wasn't, we rescheduled Sophia's birthday bounce at Sky Zone and it worked out for the best. More kids were able to come, it was a sunny warm day and the girls all had a ball. Check it out

Snow Storm Sleepover

Here we are, March, at the tail end of winter, and yet we are hunkered down for another snow storm. This has been the most disruptive winter of the girls lifetime in terms of snow days (11), missed practices, etc. but when the world gives you lemons, the girls have been making lemonade. Even though we had to move Sophia's 10th bday party out til next week, we managed to get in a movie (the Lego Movie) with Margo and Gracie. Olivia stayed home and helped Kim finish up the coolest cupcakes ever to co-celebrate Dr. Suess's birthday too. To end it all, the girls all had a Snow Storm Sleep over and watched the Oscars (or at least acted like crazy sugared up twirling Wellendas while the Oscars were on in the background). There are actually sleeping children somewhere in those mounds you see pictured below. Perfectly good beds were not suitable for the Snow Storm Sleepover. Can't wait for the sleeping beauties to come to the breakfast table. Sure to be some whining! Spring, please get here soon :-/

Picking out birthday cake for the big 10