The Mind of a 7 Year Old

Today I finally got tired of waiting for 1 of 2 people to pick a little notebook up from the bottom of the stairs and put it away. On one of my trips up the stairs, I picked it up and opened it to see which of the 2 it belonged to. It was Shelby's and I couldn't help but start to read what she had written. Since there were no deep dark secrets involved, I thought it would be fun to share her thoughts here on the old blog. Don't think spell check is broken. I'm going to type as is written.

August 14, 2011

Hi! I'm Shelby! Let me tell you about my life. Age 7, well for now! That's the thing. Pepole like to ask you questions. Like, what you whant to be when you grow up? Speeking of what you whant to be when you grow up! I'll tell you what I whant to be when I grown up! A Joronlust (journalist) and a artest (artist)! Right know we are at my grandmaws heding to Pizza Hut for my mom's birthday! She's turning 37! We've been hear since Monday. And we did a lot of other fun things to! like, we went horseback riding tuseday, wensday we went to go eat lunch with my great granpaw, friday we went to Dubuque to a aqewerum, Monday we went on the trail and saw lots of BUGS! ew! Saturday we went to the carnival! Sunday we went to the Childruns theater. And tomorrow we are heding home! Well thats my life! Yo'll be hering more of me! See ya!

I thought it was fun to see at 7 what she wants to be when she grown up. I also love how they spell by the way words sound. She had all the things right that we did on our week vacay even if she didn't put the days in order. And in her book she drew a heart for the dot on every exclamation point. Hope you got a smile out of this piece of Shelby's mind!

An Update on the Little Momma

Morgan has been doing great at school. Once she got through the first few weeks, she hasn't had any problems. Her sadness of being away from me finally shifted to being away from her baby for so long. I told her I knew how she felt because my babies left me for a long time too. This morning before school she got out three outfits and laid one with each baby. She told me I needed to change them! I decided about 2:00 I better do it. She did ask me when she got home if I did it. :) I said yes and they were upstairs in her room. She brought them down and set them on the couch. I had to take some pictures but I did it with my phone so they are a little blurry.

all dressed up by the faithful babysitter

(me-pay is no good though)

momma reading to her babies

proud momma

she loves the little one

she goes with her any chance she can take her

She carried her 2 American Girls down first. Ruthie is the larger doll with the curly hair. She has a pair of glasses. The glasses can be difficult and Morgan got frustrated trying to put them on Ruthie while she was sitting up on the couch. I heard her say in a tone of disgust, "She's worser than me, moving all over the place"! I had to chuckle at that!

Add It To Her List of Talents

One of Shelby's gifts last Christmas was a guitar. She doesn't play with it a lot, but lately she and daddy have been messing around at bedtime. He must have mentioned before that his assistant coach Knox knew how to play the guitar. One night she took Nate's phone and sent a text to "Uncle Knox" and asked him if he could teach her how to play. So they set up a practice date for Sunday afternoon. She wanted him to teach her how to play a Selena Gomez song but we decided she better start with Twinkle Twinkle Little Star! The girl certainly is not afraid to try new things.
Of course little sis could not be left out. I love how she's balancing the guitar on her leg.

A New Soccer Season!

Both girls are playing soccer this year. Today was their first game. I was impressed by both of their performances. You have to sign up for the fall season in March. Waaaaaay back in March, Morgan said she would play. So I signed her up and we didn't talk about it. Shelby also said in March she wanted to play again, so I signed her up. Then Shelby played the current season's spring schedule in miserable weather. She didn't want to play again but too bad, she was already signed up. This summer while playing outside, I told Morgan she needed to get the soccer ball out and practice kicking it around. She said, "I'm not playing soccer." I said, "Oh yes you are!" So I started to debate whether or not I should pull her out as I could get a refund before August 1. Also, they took a dance class this summer that they enjoyed and if we were playing soccer, they would not be able to fit another dance class in the schedule until next summer. But she decided she wanted to play so here we are.The pee-wee's play 3 on 3. It is easier to take pictures of a soccer game while they are warming up so that is what these are from. I did have some video but I had issues trying to upload them so they will have to wait for another post.

Morgan scored a goal and did pretty good once she figured out her team needed to go the opposite direction of the opponent! The other team had a girl that had to be playing soccer when she exited the womb and her dad thought she was playing in the Olympic games. Not to mention they were decked out in Illini orange complete with lawn chairs. That just added to the annoyance! Morgan said she had fun and wanted to play again next year!Morgan's game was bright and early at 8:30 and Shelby didn't play until 1:30. Considering the soccer fields are about as far away on the other side of town from our house as we can get, this is not very convenient. But what can you do, but waste a bunch of gas?Shelby also scored a goal and the most impressive thing is she asked to play the entire game! Last year she was volunteering to be the player to sit out. Her face was so red but she was having fun and playing aggressive. Let's hope that continues!

The only good part about where the fields are located is, the airport runways are just on the other side of the soccer complex. If all else fails, you can always watch airplanes land and take off. I took this picture this spring during one of Shelby's freezing cold, windy games. You can tell by the sky that the day wasn't too pleasant. There were 1 or 2 games this spring the weather was so bad the planes were not flying. The weather is not good enough to fly an airplane but we will play soccer. They'll play in anything. Well, anything but lightening that is!

Morgan Learns to Tie Shoes!

Earlier this week, Morgan's teacher told her class that the long weekend would be a good time for them to learn to tie their shoes. So after school yesterday, she decided she wanted to try. Now I for one lack the patience to teach children such things. So when Shelby needed to learn before she went to K, I had my mom and Ashley teacher her. But then again that child never has been good about cooperating with me to learn anything. Fortunately for me, Morgan is a quick learner and wants to learn so that makes the whole process much easier. She had it figured out in 10 minutes or less! Unfortunately, Mrs. Fitzgerald failed to mention that Saturday would be a good time to sleep in and get some much needed sleep to prepare for another week of school. Especially on the only free Saturday we have until the middle of October! The kid was up before 7am! Thankfully Nate had an 8:00 bus to Chicago for a baseball game or two and he fed her breakfast. About 7:45 she told me she was going to go downstairs to tie shoes! So I grabbed the camera and got some shots. Here she is:

lacing up

making sure they are even

can even do it without looking

(just like everything else she does!)

don't you wish you could still sit like that?

now for real shoes

good work Morgs!

no problem!