Ready for Our Closeup

We were movie stars for an evening as we shot a scene in a movie coming out in the fall. The band has a role and the parents were extras in the stands at a football game in the story.

2013 National Christmas Tree

The National Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony happens today at 4:30 EASTERN time, 3:30 central time. Watch it here, live: http://thenationaltree.org/ or replayed on PBS. Here is my daughter's contribution, representing our state:

#oneproudmama

 

Baseball Season x 2

Son made two teams this year, his middle school team and a local travel team. We have baseball x2 this year.

First middle school at bat, a scrimmage game:Sis found a playmate (younger sib of another player) to pass the time during the scrimmage. Howcoolisthat?!

Show Stealer

The finale of an exhibition of our county's high school bands featured more than the 8th graders who will join the bands next year. Look at the little boy under the director's stand:

"Wild & Bizarre"

Spotted on the clearance rack of an office supply store yesterday (for under $5):

Wild & Bizarre Guinness World Records Creative Writing Prompt cards.

I'd never seen anything quite like these before. Yeah, I bought them. I am not interested in focusing on creative writing prompts yet. We'll use them for experience sharing, attention sharing, creative composing aloud (and I may write down whatever my girl comes up with).

There were two smaller sets of fact cards on the clearance rack with the creative writing prompt cards. I opted to leave those on the shelf.

Spectacular Spider Web

I saw the most spectacular spider web in a neighbor's yard yesterday morning. I still don't know if I was able to capture it with my camera. Take a peek. Do you see it?

ex·hil·a·ra·tion

At her twin brother's game tonight...

Li'l Bit saw the players' sibs playing together and asked me,
"Mom, how do I go talk to the girls?"
and I said,
"Let's go."

She played volleyball with them.

And a "hot-potato" type game that I did not quite understand.

Temps were hot.
When Li'l Bit felt a bit overwhelmed as the kids moved on to a third game, she returned to me, saying, "Mom, I really had fun playing!" And she made up a song about how she loves making new friends at the ballpark.

Exhilaration.
For her.
And for me, too.

Not for the guys, though.
They were losing the game when we left it. :(

Reflections on this night are HERE.

Have it your way

"Blizzard"

We didn't get the blizzard totals that were predicted, but we did get a little bit of snow overnight and into the morning...

Creative Neighbors

We have some creative neighbors when halloween rolls around...

One of my children refused to approach the door:

Another creative neighbor:

Little Bit cried...

I remember how my heart would break in two during sad parts in movies when I was a little girl. I could never hold back the tears. The emotional content of movies touched me deep inside.

Individuals with autism are thought to have little or no emotion. I'm not sure why. I believe it's a myth. Individuals on the autism spectrum experience and show emotion.

Today, at our Disney on Ice princesses event, my girl reminded me a lot of ME. When Snow White ate the poisoned apple and fell into a deep sleep, my girl began to cry. When Prince Charming kissed her and she woke, my girl reached into our lunchbox for a napkin and used it to mop the tears from her eyes and face.

Disney on Ice - Princesses

My skating princess and I attended Disney on Ice today - the show was a girl's dream. All princesses! The venue offers homeschoolers one showtime for $10 per ticket; we had great seats. Here's one of the princesses. (Maybe I'll have time to post more pictures. I took several hundred. That should be enough that we can print a few to write about in our homeschool and work on episodic memory, experience sharing, along with some writing and spelling.)

Taking Turns

The 13-year-old

polished the fingernails

of the 3-year-old a pretty pink.

Then the 3-year-old wanted a turn to polish the fingernails of the 13-year-old.

Disney on Ice "Let's Celebrate!"

*click on the photos to enlarge them*

We won Disney on Ice tickets from a local radio station.

We also won a meet-and-greet w/ Mickey and Minnie.

(Still cost a lot. Parking $10. Cotton Candy $12.)

We had an early dinner before the show.

Arrived at the venue at 5:30 pm for the meet & greet.

We waited almost half an hour for the special guests to arrive.

LOOK MOM! AN OSTRICH!

Meet & Greet

Now, more waiting. Show starts at 7:30 pm.

We had almost an hour and a half to wait after meeting Mickey & Minnie.

Lumier opened the show

w/ a "Be Our Guest" number

Birthday Party

(or UNbirthday Party) Celebration

Fantasia

The glow in the dark skating brooms were neat!

halloween

Cruella showed up

So did Captain Hook

Valentines Day

with all the princesses

Bippity Boppity Boo!

Newest Disney Princess! :)

Carnival

Hawaiian Celebration

Japanese Celebration

Chinese Celebration

Mardi Gras

Christmas Celebration

w/ the characters from Toy Story

Finale