It's hard to believe that I am already halfway done with 3rd Grade! I am proud of myself that I was able to accomplish what was expected by the end of this quarter in math. I have learned and passed all of my multiplication facts, and I am well on my way to finishing with division! Of all the girls in my class I have gotten the furthest with the math facts.
The last few days of school were nuts! I got to visit the book fair and buy myself some new great reading material. Then, the day before trackout was the reading fair. In the evening, the whole family went to the school and walked around to see all of the reading fair projects displayed in the hallway. Mrs. Dickerson was really proud of my project and how good it looked. While we were at the school, I also got to show the model of my spotted river frog that I created out of model magic clay to go with the paper I wrote about frogs.
The last day of trackout at school was busy, but the business kept going after school. We went to Faith Formation for a little bit and we left early to go visit Santa! It was so nice seeing him and being able to tell him what I wanted for Christmas! After visiting with him, we took a short sleigh ride with my favorite white horses pulling the sleigh.
As if it was a treat for being done with school for the year, St Nick came and visited us that night. In the morning, Adam and I woke up to gifts that he left for us. We got Christmas inflatables! Mine was a Santa! The day only got better when shortly after we ate lunch, Grammie and Gramps came to visit us!
Grammie and Gramps came for a fun visit to NC which started with celebrating Gramp's 70th birthday the day that they arrived. I had fun spending time with Grammie and Gramps at our house. Grammie and I did our
nails like always and I had a blast playing Rummikub with them over and
over again! Even though it was the beginning of December it could have practically been Christmas because all of the pieces were in place! We went to see Christmas lights at Hill Ridge Farm, complete with snow and rides down the tube slide. Then, we saw a spectacular Bulls, Bells and Barrels rodeo, complete with stubborn bulls that had to be roped to leave the ring. Following that, we took in a festive Wake Forest Christmas parade on a mild afternoon. And we finished our glorious visit with them by opening presents and waking up the following morning to 8 inches of snow on the ground! It was completely magical and it felt like Christmas morning!
The week that Grammie and Gramps left, thankfully the rest of the snow melted so we were eblt to experience more fun Christmastime activities! One day we drove to Busch Gardens Williamsburg to visit Christmas Town! The lights were spectacular to see. I especially enjoyed some of the rides that were open. My favorite was the roller coaster Verbolten. The skyride gave us a fun view of the lights below and the train ride was a blast. The Twas the Night ice skating show was really cool too. The skaters were really good - doing back flips and all sorts of jumps! We finished the week with a play called Santa's Enchanted Workshop just for kids. A few days later a special letter arrived in the mail! Santa wrote to us! He said that he was getting everything ready in the North Pole and we need to be good just a few more days so he will come visit us!
