Sleep Over or Play Over?

This should be a poster for 5 year old homeschoolers on a sleepover LOL! Yup the girls are playing chess. They have set up the board on their own and know the different names of each piece. They even know how they move. The only "new" rule they invented was that you can jump over your own player to take out an opponents piece.

The summer has been jam packed with activities so we are trying to get back to our monthly sleepovers with the girls. We have started declaring them play overs because there really is very little sleep going on!

Bella went to Sid's karate class and Sigung gave her a t-shirt and invited her to join anytime she comes for a sleepover. She was quite excited.

Here the girls show their injuries from two completely separate incidents of fingers being slammed in the doors. Poor Bella got the tip of her finger caught in the back door and it caused a blood blister and then much later Sid closed the camper door with her thumb in the hinge. WOW did that bleed. She will likely loose her nail but given the amount of blood pouring down her arm when she ran to me, I am glad it is only her nail she will loose. Best sister do everything together I guess.

Kenny is the sweetest guy ever! He did a fundraising gig for Tools for Schools which he personally m.c.'d , provided the musical entertainment for and including his donation, scared up 1500.00 for the cause. On top of that he arrived home with two tiny tiger cubs, identical except for a little white spot on ones head. He told the girls he heard purring and noises in the bushes and when he looked in he found two best sister little tiger cubs who had been abandoned. He scooped them up and knowing they were best sisters he called them Bella and Sidney. He gave the two legged Bella Sidney tiger to take home and the two legged Sidney got Bella tiger to care for. That way the best sisters would have best sister tigers that would remind them of each other. Awwwwww.... The girls and mom were just smitten :)

Here the girls told me that Bella was the Queen and I had to answer everything with "yes your majesty" and Sidney was her lady in waiting. They ate dinner like this.

Best pic I have taken of Bella in a long time! Just fills my heart with joy when I look at it. This kid has the best smile. She also has a Willy Wonka thing going on here.

Bella provides music while Sid does acrobatic shows on the climber.



Of course we had to have marshmallows and our official marshmallow extinguisher Dad!



Now they are getting the hang of blowing out the flaming snack!

We got to sleep in the camper for the night. I wasn't sure they were going to last the night but we did. It was C-O-L-D! Before we went to sleep the girls went into the camper and came out with lanterns, a notebook, a pencil and a magnifying glass. They informed us that before they went to bed they had some scientisting to do.

Scientisting team work!

It was a fun night, hope to do it again soon!