Can you do the boneyard dance?

Name my Snobby girl

Please help me name this character. She is 10 years old, elitist, snobby, and Queen of her class.

School Pictures Are In

printed copies will be distributed in the coming months

NaNoWriMo

I've signed up for NaNoWriMo - National Novel Writing Month. It's a challenge to write a 50,000 word novel during the month of November. This is a test of the progress meter I intend to use...

If you want to try too, I'm listed as marcie8. Add me as a buddy.

One Last Hurrah on Lake Muldrew

Ontario Place

Some pictures from our day at Ontario Place

At the 680 News "Traffic School" kids drove around a track set up like a real system of roads, complete with road signs and traffic lights.

Without instruction, each drove exclusively on the right-hand side of the road, stopped at every stop sign, looked both ways before crossing or turning onto a street, and obeyed the traffic lights.

Some, like Meghan, didn't know which set of lights to obey when turning, so they treated the intersection like a four-way stop. During the 10 or so minutes that Meghan was on the course there was only one accident: one kid playing bumper cars. The rest took the experience very seriously.

Another memorable experience was navigating this kid-sized maze.






Meghan crawled through the clear-bottom tubes slowly, but eventually did make it without help. Perhaps next year we'll try her on the glass floor in the CN tower.

Meghan also loved the ATVs. She picked a dragon bike with a mouth she could open and close.

Other favourites included the FreeFall (that tall tower that drops) and the really big slide.

First Day of School

Meghan joined the ranks of schoolbound kids on Sept 17. The morning started out rough.

Those on Facebook can view the video here

(Blogger doesn't allow me to embed videos in the posts anymore)

She felt a bit better when we put the backpack on her and started to leave.

By the end of the driveway she was all smiles.

The bus barely stopped before she jumped on.

Meghan sat with "the girl in the red coat" and made her first new friend.

Fast forward seven hours to when David and I met the after-school bus. All the other kids get off the bus. David and I wait. Meghan is still in her seat with "the girl in the red coat". The driver looks like he's about to pull away. Finally, Meghan realizes that she should get off and does. (She had been looking across the street where the morning bus picked her up. Since she didn't see us there, she didn't think it was her stop).

"What did you do at school today, Meghan?

"I played and played and played and I didn't kick any boys."

There was a note from her teacher in Meghan's backpack: Meghan kicked a boy today and had a time out...I'm sure it won't happen again.