100th Day of Kindergarten!

Every school project we work on feels like such a triumph for me...even before Naki died. I feel like it's one of those things that somehow snuck by my notice when I decided I wanted to be a parent. Is it really necessary to have to also be in elementary school again? 6 times over? I dread all the school assignments the girlies come home with. But THESE ones, we really love doing. The kindergartners and 1st graders were assigned to make a poster for the 100th day of school with 100 of any item they wanted. Recently we'd resurrected an old gumball machine that either Line or Malia had received what seems like an eternity ago. It hadn't had gumballs in it forever, and when we finally bought the gumballs to put in it, when we loaded up the machine wouldn't you know the top part had cracked right down the middle and they all exploded and went everywhere. Oh joy. So, after a bit of superglue surgery, we've all been chomping on brightly colored gumballs around here. It seemed the perfect fit for Eli's poster idea. Here she is, the day she brought it into school.