It's All About Addie

So apparently everything has been about Addie this past week.  I will explain each photo of her fun life-because we all know that the world revolves around these kids!

CRAZY HAIR DAY

Addie's class earned enough tickets that they got to choose their reward.  They chose crazy hair day.  Addie wanted green braids with wire in them so they would go in "crazy" directions.  This is what we should have done for St. Patrick's day-but no, that would be the obvious thing to do and I don't think of cool things like that until after the fact!  Oh well.

She was bummed that I didn't spray it completely green.  I never do things quite right!

SECOND HONORS

Grandma came to celebrate with us at school for Addie's second honors.

Mr. Allred is the principal of the Afton Elementary and he is great!  The kids respect him and want to please him.  They have so many fun incentives to get the kids excited about learning at this school.  Alan is so amazing!  I had to take these pictures of him sitting among all the kids at "school sing" that they do every Thursday.

Every week the kids come to the gym to sing songs and honor kids that have received their honors.  They earn their 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and so forth honors when they earn 100 points.  They earn these points by reading and testing on books.  The books Addie has been reading are only worth 1/2 a point so she read 200 books to earn her first honors and 200 more to earn her second honors.  She is now working toward her third honors!

The librarians set up the stage with a white screen, strobe light, and black light.  Then all the kids being honored dance across the stage while playing music.  Addie loves to be silly and it is fun to see her come out of her shell in front of the whole school!  Of course she runs as fast as she can across the stage each time, but she's up there right?

She is sixth from the left in this photo and you can tell by her body language that she is a little out of her comfort zone.  I still can't believe how much she loves to read.  By the way, the incentive for all her reading?  Dance on stage with her teacher and eat lunch at Burger King with a friend and the principal!  Whatever works, I guess!

A DRAWING

Addie colored this at church.  I found it in my church bag days later and it just makes me laugh every time I read it.  She is awesome!

OLD PHOTO 

A photo from her t-ball team this past summer.  Hayden was on the same team but I will post about Hayden later.

KINDERGARTEN

Sorry, another old photo.  We lost Addie's kindergarten class photo so I made a copy from Taven Frazier's and decided to post it before we lost it again.  I love class photos-all the kids are so... so goofy!

THE TOOTH FINALLY CAME OUT-THANK GOODNESS

These are the before pics.  I told her if she didn't pull her tooth out by bedtime then I was going to do it.

These pictures don't do her tooth justice.  This tooth was literally hanging out of her mouth.  It had moved away from the other teeth, was poking forward, and had looked like this for a good month.  Everyone wanted to pull it out.  It was obnoxious.  I was so tired of night after night trying to get her confidence up to have me pull it out.  Then she goes to the bathroom to try for herself, works on it for an hour, and comes out crying and frustrated.  I was done with that silly tooth!  So I gave her the ultimatum...

...and she came home from school looking like this!  Yay!  I am so glad the drama from this one little tooth is over!  And I don't think she could look cuter!

The second tooth to the left of the hole is actually an extra tooth.  Her front teeth have never lined up with her nose as you can easily see now that the tooth is missing-the hole is almost centered with her nose.  I think I see some orthodontist bills in my future!

Uncle Brian??!! 

So there is one last part to this story.  Addie asked the tooth fairy for $100 and if she didn't leave the money she was supposed to wake Addie up.  Well she had a box ready to trap the tooth fairy.  Apparently the tooth fairy was smart and left the money (four gold dollars, not 100) under her pillow and not in the box.  She also thought she was being cute when she left sparkley "fairy dust" under her pillow.  It must have been quite dark in Addie's room last night because the "fairy dust" was everywhere and the sheets had to be cleaned.  Silly tooth fairy!