An alarm clock?

First lets talk about last night. Ellie filled up a sticker chart about a week ago, but as she hasn't earned any new stickers, there wasn't a need to start a new one. Well, she earned a sticker over the weekend for listening to Grandma and going to bed nicely (while her parents were out at a movie...). So last night I gaveEllie a piece of paper and a set of markers and asked her to make her own sticker chart, however she wanted to do it. And she did, all by herself. I usually put numbers 1-10 and do little clouds around them when I make the sticker charts. Ellie copied this idea. She started off by drawing the clouds/bubbles and then fit the numbers into them. She was pleased with her handiwork and as she had NO help from either parent, I was pleased as well.



She then got to add a sticker...



Okay, so this morning...

I was rudely awakened by a noisy peacock (or peahen...). But as you can't hit snooze on a bird I eventually got out of bed. While I was getting ready I heard the beeping of an alarm. It wasn't my clock. I checked around the house and couldn't find anything. It was too loud to be a neighbor...

Finally it dawned on me that Ellie technically has an alarm clock, although we have never set the alarm. She pushes buttons and stuff on it as it will light up and smile at you and do funny things...and sure enough she set the alarm on her clock to go off just after 7am! When I wandered into her room (after the alarm had been going off for like 5 minutes) I found her in bed, still under covers, looking at the beeping clock. She looked at me and pointed at the clock (which was like 16 inches from her face). I hit snooze and she rolled over and fell back asleep to be awoken 9 minutes later by the beeping again (which it was time for her to get up anyway). She later told me that she likes it better when I wake her up.

Show and tell at school today. Ellie took a dead bee in a little glass container to school for show and tell. The bee was a gift from her grandma Pam who found it prior to our visit this weekend and saved it to show Ellie. "It's science!" (how my mom justified to me the saving a dead bee in her kitchen) It's also a dead bee...



Well, Ellie was SUPER excited about the bee and apparently dead bugs make you popular in preschool. Forget princess dolls or stickers, friends will come swarming to see a dead bug...



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