Junie B. Jones and a Little Monkey Business

Yesterday we made it to the musical that we missed out on last weekend. It was a cute little story and both MariAnna & I enjoyed it. She has read some of the Junie B. stories before but I had never heard of them as I'm not in that loop too much these days.

We had a good time chatting before the play and afterwards. We found an ad in the program for an interesting program happening soon at the Duluth Children's Museum (I forget the exhibit's name now but it has something to do with a monkey & China). She also asked if I could come and watch her "test" in her karate class on Wednesday. She's going for a black stripe on a blue belt (I think).

J. Skylark

The play that we were going to go see was sold out...so we spent the afternoon at one of the coolest toy stores that I know of. It's in the Dewitt-Seitze building in Canal Park in Duluth. It's called J. Skylark and it's filled with the most fun toys and games and collectibles and learning toys and crafts and and and....we had a blast....

Sewing Project

Anyone know of a good sewing project to do with kids? Particularly an 8 year old girl who really wants to sew?

I would be grateful for any suggestions or recommendations...

:-)

Yahtzee!

Tonight Miss M & I just did some pretty mellow hanging out. We worked our knitting projects from last week. We chatted away - talked about school starting in a couple days, talked about different craft projects, a little bit about my upcoming wedding and everything in between.

She was losing interest so we changed it up. We played a game of Yahtzee. I found out that she needs more help with her numbers than with reading so I think this is a good game for her. She did really well with adding up double numbers and we worked hard on forming the numbers the right way (the 6 tends to want to go backwards) and on getting those numbers in the little boxes on the score card.

The evening was relatively short - just a couple hours. I took her home and wished her a happy first day at school!

Next up: a family musical at the children's theater here in town - I htink - I have to try to remember what the heck weekend it's on!