Jack and the Beanstalk

 
 

Today was the last day of Nadia's theatre camp. I am breathing a sigh of relief. Ian and Oliver enjoyed playing in the Treasure Castle Playland three days this week during Nadia's camp. Ian made HUGE progress with his ability to climb this week. At first he was too scared to even want to try, then he could only do it with a little help, and by Thursday afternoon he could do it all by himself very easily. He was proud of his accomplishment, and so was I! The Kindle didn't arrive before we left yesterday so I brought my laptop instead. Today I brought my Kindle. I love it! The Kindle Paperwhite is really, really easy on the eyes, which was one of the reasons I resisted buying an e-reader for so long. It's so small, which makes it really handy to take places and for a person like me who dislikes clutter, that's another added benefit as you can store hundreds of books on a small device. Now I'll be keeping my eyes open for books that Amazon has for free for the Kindle. I know that ereadergirl.com will be at least one of the sites I'll use to find out when Amazon temporarily has a book for free. Buying the Kindle inspired me to start using some other technology for the first time. Today I set up my phone so that I can answer it in a hands-free fashion using the steering wheel of the van. My next project will be to synchronize the garage door opener with one of the buttons in the van. Since we've owned the van for 11 months it's about time we started using these features, ha ha!

Nadia really enjoyed theatre camp. She wants to do it again next year. She kept talking about two other kids in the camp, one of which was Abby. Abby is 6 years old but is much taller than Nadia so it looks like there is far more than one year age difference between them. On Thursday Abby wrote in crayon on a piece of green construction paper what she said was her phone number (although it didn't really have enough numbers to be a valid phone number). Today I heard Abby reminding Nadia that she should call her. How sweet. Abby told me she wanted to come home with us. Paul left work early to be able to join his parents in coming up to see this little production. He made a video of it, which I am going to upload to YouTube, but it's a big file so it's going to take a very long time for that to be complete. I'll hopefully be able to share it here tomorrow.