January 2010
9 posts
Update
Madeline beat my pinball score.
“There’s a cookie downstairs.”
– Mariana, while sleeping
Poor Sports part 1
Madeline and Mariana do indeed have a few personality flaws. One of them is that they can be poor sports. Two examples:
Madeline wanted to play a game on the computer, so I showed her 3-D Pinball. I played the first game to show her. Naturally I got the high score. Then Madeline played. She actually wasn’t too bad. And she beat my high score. OK, good job Madeline, now it’s my...
Mariana still hates pants
So we were downstairs and we were getting ready to go somewhere. It was like 1pm and Mariana was just wearing a T-shirt and underwear, so I was like, “Mariana, go put on some pants!” And she said she didn’t want to, but she reluctantly went upstairs anyway.
About 15 minutes pass and I start wondering what Mariana was doing. So I tip-toe upstairs to see what she’s...
Madeline's Reading list
Here is a partial list of books that Madeline has read in the last 6 months:
The Boxcar Children (~12 books)
A Series of Unfortunate Events (13 books)
Harry Potter Series (7 books)
Warriors (20+ books)
The Sisters Grimm (7 books)
39 Clues (5 books)
Madeline breaks the reading record!
For her school Madeline is supposed to read at least 4 books a month. The way the teacher monitors this is Madeline goes online and takes a reading quiz for each book she reads. And I guess they send the results to the teacher or whatever. Different books are given a point value based on the difficulty for a 3rd grader. So easy books are worth only 2-3 points but harder books can be worth a...