English is a difficult language

Yesterday, Lizzie brought a couple of papers home from school. They were pictures she had drawn, and underneath each picture was a caption saying something like "I like to ______." Being a kindergartner, it is not always clear what her pictures are. Under one picture, she had written the word "Drol" in the blank space, and we had no idea what the picture was. It had a person and a bunch of boxes and circles and we couldn't tell what they were supposed to represent. We asked her to read the caption to us, and she very clearly read, "I like to drol."

Obviously, that was no help at all.

Confused, we asked her what "drol" meant, and she said, "You know, drol." We asked again what that meant and she said, "You know, drol, like with paper and crayons..."

We realized that after six years our daughter still had never learned the correct pronunciation of "draw."

Halloween

This isn't her Halloween costume. Liz's school spent October learning about other countries. They decided not to celebrate Halloween, but to have the kids come dressed from another country on that Friday. We decided on Holland, mainly because my sister already had this dress. (thanks Annaleise for letting us borrow it) However, it was a little short, and since there was 4" of snow on the ground, we added pants to help keep her warm.

Brad and I don't really get into this holiday, but lucky for us, his office does. They always have a family party, and make us all dress up. This happened on Friday. (so in a matter of hours, Liz was in 2 different costumes.) Since he has worked there for a few years now, I'm starting to run out of ideas on how to dress up.



Liz went as a dog (my Mom made the costume), Brad was a traveling Salesman, and I went as myself (a housewife). I started off with curlers in my hair, but since I only had about 5 min to get Liz and myself ready, it took about that long before the curlers came out once I made it to his office. After the party, it was decided that we needed to add a little more to Liz's costume before the next night. Here is how she looked for our ward's Trunk or Treat.



Overall, it was pretty fun, but I have to say, I'm glad that it is only once a year!