Final Four

Let the May Madness of homeschooling begin! We took the month of April off so that I could auxiliary pioneer. I have to say we all had much more fun than I expected. We kept up with phonics and math but everything else was put on hold. We had four book left to do for the school year and just enough time to get them in.

We started off with the book Very Last First Time by Jan Andrews. This is an interesting fictional story based on real people. The Inuit people who live near Ungava Bay in northern Canada collect mussels in an unusual way. The ice freezes over in the winter but the tide still comes and goes. When the tide is out they cut a hole in the ice and go down, walk on the ocean floor and collect mussels. The story is based on a girl, Ava, who goes under the ice and collects the mussels by herself for the first time. We started off the week doing the usual stuff, finding Canada and Ungava Bay on our map and putting the story disk on it. We learned a bit about the Inuit culture and ocean life all week by reading books from the library. We also learned new vocabulary words, discussed ordinal numbers, explored the detail in the pictures of the book, discussed warm and cool colors, and more. One afternoon I set up a pretend setting so Zoey could go under the ice and get mussels.

Here she is dressed warmly with her sled and tools.

Zoey collects the mussels (shells) and puts them in her mussel pan (cake pan).

It was hard to get a good picture of her under the ice. You can see more when I upload and share May's pictures.

Our next book was Papa Piccolo by Carol Talley. This story took us to Venice, Italy. The story is about a tom cat who is adopted by two kittens. It is a very cute story with lots of action too. The canal streets really caught Zoey's attention. We looked at many pictures in books of Venice and Zoey really liked the book, Olivia goes to Venice this week. I think we read it more often than we did the book of the week. Some of the things we learned about and discussed this week were: the shape of Italy, gondola boats, Marco Polo, architecture, creating the illusion of speed in drawings, peripheral vision, types and breeds of cats, and fatherhood.

After Papa Piccolo we moved on to Another Celebrated Dancing Bear by Gladys Sheffrin-Falk. For this story we visited Russia. Here is Amazon's description of the book, A "heavy-footed brown bear whose heart is soft as butter," Boris is unhappily employed at the animal hospital. When he sees an ornate poster announcing that his friend Max, "the celebrated dancing bear," is about to tour St.Petersburg, his discontent overwhelms him and he can't control his tears, even as he bravely struggles to congratulate Boris. But Boris, too, is soft-hearted, and he sets about teaching Max to dance. Scheffrin-Falk's first picture book gracefully confronts jealousy, self-doubt (Max "felt a little foolish. Dancing lessons at his age!"), the value of persistence and the power of friendship. Garrison's etchings, framed like snapshots and hand-colored to highlight certain objects (a sash, a jacket, a flower) against sepia-like backgrounds, infuse the volume with the feel of an antique scrapbook. This old-world flavor further enhances the nostalgic imperial Russian setting, replete with samovars, graduated Russian peasant dolls (here shaped like bears) and distant spires.

Zoey didn't seem to care too much for this book but she did like the activities we did. We acted out different dramatic words. Can you believe Zoey liked that? We discussed occupations, etchings, boiling and freezing point and  characterization. To help learn time I drew a large clock outside and had Zoey show me where the short hand would point if it was a certain time. She did this for me but she really just wanted to play baseball. Later when it rained she told me happily that my drawing was going to be washed away. She sure does make it clear when she doesn't like something. At least I got a picture of it.

Mean mommy tries to make learning fun.

Our last book of the year was Night of the Moonjellies by Mark Shasha.  Here is a review of the book:

 On his way to help grandmother and relatives at a seaside hot dog stand, seven-year-old Mark stops on the beach to pick up a small jellylike substance that he places in a bag of seawater. A moonlight ride with Gram on a fishing boat takes them out on the ocean where thousands of moonjellies shimmer, and the boy slips his treasure back among them. Based on a childhood experience in New England, Shasha's narrative is full of small details that illuminate the story but don't impede it. His rich pastels combined with the text create a strong sense of place and time--the warmth of family relationships, the quiet companionship of the boy and his grandmother, the cheerful hard work and hustle-bustle of the concession stand, and the magic of the glowing sea. His use of light, shadows, and darkness in the luminous full-color double-page spreads invite readers right into the story. Unfortunately, neither the text nor the jacket notes identify exactly what a moonjelly is. Despite this omission, it's a strong debut. --Marge Loch-Wouters, Menasha Public Library, WI
Sorry I am trying to get this done fast so it is easier to cut and paste than to come up with my own reviews.  Things discussed and learned this week were: New England, responsibility, contrast in artwork, italics, pastels (art), money, moon jellyfish and more. This was our second to last week of school and our enthusiasm was getting low so we just kept everything brief and moved on. There are many fun things we can do if we do this book again in a few years.

Our very last week was review and surprise trip on the very last day of school, June 10.  Both Mat and I took the girls to the new children's museum, Discovery Place Kids. It is for kids ages 2 to 7 and set up like different occupations and areas of play. I have tons of pictures of it that I will load to Shutterfly and share as soon as I can. Until then here are some pictures of our last day of gymnastics. We really miss this and can't wait for it to start again.

We had a great year for our first year of homeschool. Other than all the adventures we had with books Zoey learned her letters, letter sound and is starting to read. She finally got 13, 14, 15. The other numbers 1 to 20 were no problem. She can spell some words and is enjoying her new handwriting program. She likes to add small numbers and asks to play the adding game when we are riding in the car. We also have started listening to different stories while riding in the car. Charlotte's Web, Peter Pan, and Little House series. Mid-summer update on Little House series. Zoey begs for it every time we get in the car and can't wait for the next one once we complete one. Next we will be listening to The Long Winter so we are almost done. I have focused on Zoey mostly because she is the one "in school" but Sierra is right there with us learning so much. The other day I asked her where China was and she found it right away. She also loves to count things and now is drawing people, trees, and flowers.

If all goes as planned we will start our new school year on August 8. It is so hot out right now it is better to get started and take breaks when the weather is nice in October and April. Thanks for reading all year. Maybe our first week update will come sooner rather than later. Hmmmmmm, maybe not?

Spring Surprises (sorta late, huh?)

I know, I know, I know, I promised this back two months ago and where have I been? I have no idea. I was probably in the kitchen loading or unloading the dishwasher. Anyway, I am here now. As I start this I wonder when I will finish. Today is Thursday, July 14. What day will it be when I finish? I can't even finish this paragraph without having to turn the sink on for a peach covered girl. Oh well. I will make my best attempt. For those of you who read our adventures you don't seem to mind my scattered thoughts and ramblings or you at least skip over them.

Back to Spring Surprises. Zoey just took the book for Spring Surprises that I printed out to use for our studies. She loves to go back and review stuff. Some things she remembers some things she forgets.

So here is what it was all about...

Now that the weather's warming, are your kids out exploring?

How many ways can you combine your child's enthusiasm for learning and exciting activities with all the delights of springtime? Begin counting with this adventure!

Day 1: What Is Spring?
Day 2: Science Secrets of Spring
Day 3: People and Places of Spring
Day 4: Time for Tips and Treasures of Spring
Day 5: Goodies and Surprises of Spring

We started off with Day 1- imagine that - watching some online videos of spring and seasons. I liked the one that showed the four seasons of an oak tree in fifteen seconds. Zoey then drew a picture of what she thinks of when she thinks about spring. She drew people, leaves, flowers, the sun, rain, a castle (ok?), some seeds and the word change. She then wrote out Spring, Summer, Fall and Winter. Summer and Winter were written perfectly backwards. I love when kids do this. As adults most of us find this extremely difficult but children can do it with ease. So then we talked about why we have spring, and how the earth revolves around the sun and the angle of the earth axis. I still don't know if she really understands all of this. I write down her answers to questions like What outdoor activities take place in spring and what changes do you see happening. We attempt to write a spring acrostic. This does not go well. Last but not least we go on our spring nature walk and then write about it. Zoey prefers to draw pictures at this point rather than write. This is what I would expect from a five-year-old child though.

Taking pictures on our nature walk

Day 2 - Science Secrets of Spring. This day is all about seeds and plants growing. The time lapse videos of seeds sprouting and of plants growing are very amusing to us all. There are also instructions on how to force forsythia to bloom indoors but in Charlotte it is already blooming everywhere so there is no need to do that. More things discussed this day are clothes you wear in the spring and what time sunrise and sunset happen each day for our nature walk. Zoey rode her bike and then drew a picture of her riding her bike and me pushing Sierra in the jogging stroller. It is very cute.

Getting ready to plant some seeds

Day 3 - People and Places of Spring.  (Now I have to get Sierra up from her nap. I bet nothing will get done on this until tonight or tomorrow. Did I mention I love the draft mode on Blogger? I do.) Sierra is not ready to wake up so I will leave her alone for now. She wakes up like me. It can be scary. But she still takes naps and for that I am so ever thankful. Now back to day three. We learned about rainbows, Noah's ark, George Washington Carver and his inventions. He invented peanut butter. Did you know that? Zoey loved all of the Noah's ark and rainbow activities but not so much the George Washington Carver. I was not surprised. Since these unit studies are aimed at the K-4th grade range I know there is going to be stuff that goes over her head or that she is just not interested in. We talked about being an inventor. When asked what she would like to invent Zoey said, "Shoes that teach you how to dance." Then she drew a picture of a dancer. On today's nature walk we looked for and found bird nests in trees.

Noah sacrificing an animal to Jehovah after they came out of the ark.

Zoey's drawing of Noah's ark.

Day 4 - Time for Tips and Treasures of Spring. We start today with videos of birds feeding their babies and baby robins from eggs to first flight. Zoey and Sierra loved, loved, loved this. We watched them over and over and over. And once again when Daddy got home to show him. We decided that the baby birds were cute and ugly at the same time. We continue the day learning about birds and different types of nests. We have a robin nest in our tree at this point of our study so this was especially interesting. Next we learned about the life cycle of a frog. Zoey already knew all about this so it was a review to her but she still loved it. After that was parts of a tree and why a tree has roots. Our nature walk was last. Zoey's favorite part of the walk was, "going really fast on my bicycle." This makes me miss spring. I am looking forward to the cooler weather we are expecting this weekend.

Day 5 - Goodies and Gadgets of Spring. Videos of baby ducks start the day off followed by a discussion of fruits. We were supposed to make something from one of the strawberry recipes - oops! Next we learned about baseball and spring training. We found the states on the map where spring training happens. I shared with Zoey my experience with spring training and all of the traffic that it brought. We also learned about Claude Monet and looked at some of his artwork online. (Just went in and checked on Sierra again. She is sitting up. When she saw me she said, "GO!" I left. Now she just came around the corner and said, "The sun is up." At night I tell her to stay in bed quietly until I come and get her and that I will come and get her when the sun comes up. I started this in the winter when she was crying for me at 5:30 or 6:00 am. Now she just sleeps until 7:30 or later. I love her so much. Back to Monet. Zoey attempted to do her own copy of a Monet. She did quite well, my little artist. However she was not interested in doing the lapbooking activity, "Facts about Claude Monet." Today the nature walk either didn't happen or we didn't write anything about it.

Zoey pitching for Sierra. Can you see the ball in mid air?

Funny Stuff

Throughout the week there were various lapbook activities. Some we did, some we skipped. However, we never put the lapbook together. I guess we will work on that soon if Zoey is interested. She enjoyed making the pieces we just need to glue them in a file folder and it will be done.

The funniest thing happened on the last day. Mat had bought one of the cheap plastic baseball and bat sets from Wal-mart. Zoey had been asking for one for a long time and we thought with our studies this week and the nice weather it would be a great time to get it. Also, as mentioned earlier, we had been learning about birds, nests and eggs. We watched a robin make a birds nest in our back yard a few weeks before we started the unit study. I checked on it a few times and never saw anything. I figured they had given up on that nest. I guessed that the girls came outside one day and with all the noise they make the bird left and never came back. Back to the baseball set. I surprised Zoey with it at the end of the school day and we went right outside to try it out. Zoey missed the first few. Can't really blame her. I blame the pitcher, me. The first time she hit the ball it went between the trees. The second time she hit the ball it went straight to the top of the tree with the nest in it. For a second I thought it was going to be stuck at the top but it started falling down through the tree. It fell, bouncing all the way, through the tree and landed right on top of the bird's nest. At that same instant we heard a loud, SQUAWK, and see a robin fly frantically away from the nest. The ball fell to the ground. Zoey and I stood there shocked for a second and then we went to investigate. Sure enough there were four blue robin's eggs. They really are beautiful. The nest was low enough that I could easily lift Zoey up to see it. We moved our game to the front yard so hopefully the robin would come back to the nest.  Well they did. Both mom and dad robin tended to the eggs and eventually the babies. We were able to check on the nest every few days and see the progression of the babies. It was great! Except the part where the parents dive bombed us to keep us away from the nest. Actually even that was funny when it wasn't me.



The beutiful Robin's eggs.

Here you can see momma bird with one of the babies poking its head out.



The next Friday after the whole baseball and bird incident I was sharing the story with our friend Tristen who go to gymnastics with us. After this anytime Zoey got an adult who would listen to her she would tell them the whole story and if you think it is long when I tell it you should hear her. I just laugh every time I hear her tell it. She even uses the sound effects that I used.

Now, I don't know how you could plan a better unit study than to have a robin make a nest in your yard the same week you are learning about them but one thing I know for sure, we all learned so much and best of all - we had a fantastic time. In the weeks following this we also discovered a wren's nest in a planter near our back sliding glass door. We were able to watch the wrens come and go as they brought food to their little ones. We even got to see three of them leave the nest. There also was another robin that made a nest in the tree in our front yard down low so we could watch it. Unfortunately is was also low enough for a cat or something to get to the nest when the babies were a few weeks old. We learned from this too. I think was more upset than the girls.

In the white bowl on its side in the planter is where Wrens made their nest.

Next week we will be doing the Summer unit study and while I am sure it will be fun. I doubt it will come close to the discoveries we had while learning all about Spring.

We painted with some pretty spring colors.

Grandfathers's Journey

Now to catch up on that last book of the week that we did way back in March. This week's choice was Grandfather's Journey by Allen Say. Zoey and I both really enjoyed this book. It is a story about a Japanese man who comes to America in the early 1900's and falls in love with the country but misses his home country. Throughout his life he goes back and forth between the countries. The story is written with few words but tells an immense story.

We started as usual with the story disks. We put one in Japan and one in California. We talked about how the main character liked and disliked different things about each place he visited. Then we tried to talk about our likes and dislikes of different places but let's just say that was a short conversation. We reviewed different things about Japanese culture. We had learned about these when our book of the week was A Pair of Red Clogs. I always say I never know what will stick with Zoey. Well, one of the new Japanese culture things we looked at this week was fans with Japanese artwork. Since then Zoey notices them everywhere. Funny how that works.

For language arts we discussed poetic prose, imagery, and similis. I don't know if she understood much of it or not. For art we discussed the formal style of each of the pictures in the book almost as if they were photos. Then we discussed the reflections and shadows used in the artwork. We used a flashlight to see how things can be light on one side and dark on the other. I tried showing Zoey how to draw shadows and she just wasn't getting it. No big deal but she wanted to understand what I was trying to tell her. All of a sudden she says, "Oh, I get it now!" It was so funny. The next day we worked with watercolor pencils. These are awesome! Zoey and I both loved working with the.

There were so many art lessons with this book I didn't want to miss any so we also explored origami. I ended up doing all of the folding but it was cool. The next week when Zoey went to the Monday afternoon library class for school-aged children they made origami! Perfect timing.

For applied math we counted how many days in a week, weeks in a month, and months in a year. We also counted some things in the book. I have science scheduled on Friday and because of Gymnastics we keep missing it or catching it in the following weeks. We looked at books with beautiful pictures of American landscapes and also learned a bit more about birds.  Little did I know we were about to learn about birds up close and personal. To be continued with my summary of the Spring Download N Go. Hopefully coming soon.

Too busy to type...

We have been so busy lately with school and life in general I have been too busy to type anything here. My last update was about Katy and the Big Snow. After than we started a unit study about Winter from the company Download N Go.  Even though we tried multiple times to get through this we only made it through day three.

Day 1: What is Winter?
Day 2: Science Secrets of Winter
Day 3: People and Places of Winter
 

The nice thing about unit studies is they are for multiple ages. Whatever we missed this time we will get the next time we study it. I think because we did so much winter themed books Zoey was just done with the subject by the time we started this. We had fun with the days we did do. Sierra loves joining in on these too since there are interesting videos clips to watch. Most are only a few minutes, which are just the right length. 

 

Next we moved on to the book, Stopping by Woods on a Snow Evening by Robert Frost. This was more of a study in poetry and artwork than winter. We learned about Alliteration, the repetitive consonant sound in the lines of poetry. We worked on memorizing parts of the poem too. This week was very relaxed as every activity was only discussion based.

 

Ready for something new our next book of the week was Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel by Virginia Burton. I didn't think Zoey was going to like this book very much but I was very wrong. She loved hearing the story over and over again and dove into the activities each day with gusto. Zoey decided to put the story disk on North Carolina since we keep seeing large construction equipment here. They are widening the road near the library so we see road construction equipment all the time. We liked finding old things in the book and discusses Mike Mulligan's flexibility on day one. On day two we learned about how you can come up with a variety of characters for a story you are writing, learned vocabulary words, discussed what a literary classic is and discussed personification again. This time we personified our van by giving it a name, Graycilla the Wondervan.  For Art we drew simple trees like in the book and experimented with different ways to show motion in a drawing. On Thursday we got out the geoboards. We first made a square, four corners neat and square, just like the basement Mike Mulligan and his steam shovel, Maryann, dug. We made more shapes and designs after that just to see what we could come up with.  Our science experiment on Friday did not go so well. We made a simple pinwheel, attached it to a pencil eraser with a pin and held it over a pan of boiling water. The steam rising was supposed to make it spin. Nope! At least we tried. Zoey didn't seem to care and I didn't think she really even remembered it after a few minutes. However, last week when we were in Target she saw a pinwheel. She said, "Hey Mommy, remember that thing we made and it didn't work!" I could only laugh. Children really do remember everything. We also had discussions about creative thinking and road engineering so the day wasn't a total bust.  All week long we read books about large equipment and now a month later Zoey still doesn't want to take those books back to the library.  This week was a huge success!

 

The Glorious Flight: Across the Channel with Louis Bleriot July 25, 1909 by Alice Provensen took us off into our next adventure.  This book is based on Luis Bleriot's flight across the English Channel. It has added hummor and wonderful illustrations that made it a hit with Zoey and Sierra. The story disk went right over the english channel. We had to move Madeline and How to Make an Apple Pie and See the World's story disks a bit to fit it in which gave us a great chance to review what we learned about those books and France and England. Many things were discussed throughout the week, family relationships, making reparations, italics, ordinal numbers and so on. We also learned about Onomatopoeia (words that create the sound as you say them, for example, boom.) Zoey really liked saying this word and completely understood what it ment. One day when I couldn't remember how to pronounce it, she did!  By the middle of the week we were enjoying some beautiful weather so we took school outside which gave us the perfect place to do the art activity, perspective and viewpoint. We drew an apple upclose and far away, from the bottom and the top. We looked at examples in the book of different perspectives and Zoey got it! I loved it when I took the apple to the other end of the yard and she drew it so tiny. We did our reading and math outside too. It was a great day.

The last day of the week Mat and I flew to Dallas so we finished up things the following week. I am always amazed how simple things like making paper airplanes can thrill young children. The girls played with thier paper airplanes all week (the second week) and we read all of the go-allong books about airplanes and avation history that we got from the library. One day Zoey and Sierra were playing with the planes outside. Zoey set up her buckets in a row. She told me they were the White Cliffs of Dover.



A large bowl was the English Channel and she flattened out a grass spot and called that the city.

She then made multiple attempts to fly Blairot XI (what Zoey named her paper airplane) over the English Channel. Finally she had a success, just like in the book!

She did this all on her own. I thought it was awsome but maybe I am biased. You can see the white bowl she used as the English Channel in the foreground of this photo. LOL Things really can be simple for kids with imagination.

Aside from the book of the week we continued with phonics, math and other various stuff. Zoey is learning to read more and more every day and it is freaking me out just a little bit. Well I have one more book of the week to catch up on and now we are doing a unit study of Spring with the same company, Download n Go but reviews of those will have to wait as dinner must be started. Thanks for enjoying our journey with us! I can't believe you read the whole thing! Please note, I typed this very fast with multiple distractions and spell check is not working.

Funny

A few days ago Zoey had some ice in her drink. It was starting to melt and she was looking at it and told Mat and I she was doing an activity. She was waiting for the ice to melt and then she was drinking it. We both laughed (after she left the room.) I guess simple things really are the best huh?

Katy and the Big Snow

Way back over a month ago our book of the week was Katy and the Big Snow by Virginia Lee Burton. We still had snow around from the previous week so snow was fresh in our minds. The story is about a snow plow that saves a little town after a blizzard. I really liked the story but I was worried Zoey was not going to like it. It was one of the books I ordered at the beginning of the year and when she saw it she told me she didn't like it at all and put it back in the pile. Thankfully when I pulled this book out Monday morning she was so excited. I think the highlight of the week was the snow plow video I checked out from the library. Both Zoey and Sierra loved watching the snow plows and different snow moving machines on this short DVD. It was made for children and filmed in Canada where they have plenty of snow.

One of the first activities I had planned was to create the city Geopolis from the book with our blocks, cars, train track and people.  I thought this would be Zoey's favorite activity of the week. She didn't even want to do it. I was so surprised! I sat there trying to convince her and then realized how useless that was. We moved on to our discussion of the different responsibilities of different people in a town, like firefighters, police officers, doctors and more. We talked for quite a while about this and Zoey had so much to talk about. We also talked about the responsibilities of each of us around the house.  The next day we had vocabulary words from the book then we discussed how personification is used in the book. Our activity was to take wiggly eyes and put them on different things around the house to make them more human like. The girls loved this and laughed and laughed.

Here is Sierra personifying the front door. I thought the funniest one Zoey's. She personified the light switches in her room. There are three together. The end ones looked like eyes and the middle one looked like a nose. It made us all laugh.

For art we talked about all of the detail in the pictures of the book. So much is going on in each one. There is one picture where a house is on fire and the fire department is putting it out. Zoey had so many questions about that page. What happened to the people in the house? How did they get out? Why was the house on fire? And more and more questions. It just goes to show you never know what will spark a child's interest.

For applied math grouped manipulatives by fives until we had 55. Katy had a 55 horse power engine and we had already talked about what that was. Zoey likes counting by 5's so this was fun too.

We didn't have enough horses so we used all of our farm animals. Little things like this really seem to be helping her get a better grasp of numbers in her head. This makes me think of something that happened last week. I recently bought a book called Games for Math by Peggy Kaye. It has so many suggestions for simple math things to do with your kids. I needed to keep Zoey busy for a minute so I asked her to go count all the doors at her end of the house. She lit up and ran to go count. After a minute or two she came back and said, "19!" I said, "Wow, I didn't know there were that many doors down there." She told me she counted drawers too because they are kind of like doors to her. How could I disagree. The point was to get her to count and to keep her busy for a minute. Success! I look forward to using more of the ideas from this book.

For science we briefly discussed weather patterns. We made a weather chart in December so she did not want to make another one. No big deal. I am glad this week turned out so well after Zoey's initial reaction to the book back in August. Sierra was right there for most of it too. As she gets older she is joining in on so many more things.

Both this book and the book we used the week before this, The Snowy Day, brought up discussions about street signs. It went great and we did so many things inside but Zoey never wanted to talk about it when we were driving around. That was last month. Earlier this week we were reading one of the street signs books that we still had checked out from the library. On our next car trip Zoey had me read and explain every street sign on our drive. Some she already knew and read those to me. It is funny to me how, much later, things children have learned can all of a sudden pop up and make sense to them.

I am glad that I am blogging about all of this because it really makes me realise how much fun we are having and that we are all learning new things. Thanks for reading.

Reading

Zoey is starting to read some three-letter words! I really didn't expect her to get it (reading) until sometime next year but we kept plugging away at our phonics. She has been reading little words for a few weeks now but yesterday she read her first sentence all by herself! She was so excited. The sentence was, "Pet the cat." She wanted me to read it first, this is what we usually do, but I told her I knew she could do it. Once she did that I added another word to it, "Pet the wet cat." We both agreed we would not want to pet a wet cat, lol. She likes so write and asks me to spell words all the time but now when she asks me she already has the first letter or two sounded out herself. I must admit I am having a great time teaching her to read among other things. It is not easy and sometimes downright frustrating but to see her reading is so wonderful.

Meanwhile, Sierra is counting everything, finding "o's" everywhere  (her favorite letter) and just learned to cut with scissors. In no time at all she went from barely holding the scissors to cutting correctly.  She is wanting to cut so much and in such tiny pieces that I started giving her papers that need to be shredded. It saves me some time. I have even got her cutting over the trash can. She also talks all the time now. She is quite the chatterbox. It wasn't that long ago I was worried about her not talking.

I hope to have more week reviews soon. Thanks for reading.