It was "Chicken Day" at school today. At the beginning of the month, Mrs. Westervelt, our principal, said that if we filled out a paper egg for every book that we read and if we read enough books/filled out enough eggs to circle the school, she would dress up like a chicken. Well, we read 3,877 books this month, so today Mrs. Westervelt dressed up like a chicken! (She didn't wear the head, though, because she couldn't see with it on.)

Today was Easter! I got to get all dressed up, like a princess, in a new pretty blue dress. My shoes were white instead of glass and I had to wear a sweater because it was cold, but I still felt like Cinderella. I even had little white gloves to wear.

The Easter Bunny came and left me an Easter basket on the dining room table, and he hid one under Uncle Paul's desk. That was a tricky one to find. I went all over the house, even looking under the couch in the family room before I saw it. Daddy forgot to take pictures with Grandma's camera, so they re-hid my basket and I had to find it again. Mommy said they would hide it someplace different, so boy was I surprised when I found it in the same place!

We went to church, where I did a pretty good job of being quiet and not too fidgety (an hour is a really long time to be good, you know), and then came home and I got to watch tv while Mommy and Daddy got our fancy lunch ready. We had ham, which is one of my favorites, and corn and sweet potatoes and scalloped potatoes and broccoli. The best part was eating black olives off of my fingers. Daddy and Grandpa think they're yucky, but Mommy and I know that they're good. I ate so much that I thought I was going to pop!!

I was really sad that we had to leave Grandma and Grandpa's house today and come back home. But I have to go to school tomorrow and my teacher would miss me if I weren't there.

Easter is coming up on Sunday. Tonight, mommy and I decorated Easter eggs. It was a lot of fun. I got to help get the colors ready and then carefully put the eggs in. Mommy used a white crayon to write names on some of the eggs. I did one for me, one for Daddy, one for Mommy, one for Grandma, and one for Grandpa. We let the eggs sit in the colors while I took a bath and when we took them out, they were really nice and bright.

Tomorrow, once they are dry, I'm going to put some stickers on them.

Our Irish Cinderella
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Today was St. Patrick's Day. Mommy found a lot of green thing for me to wear today...green pants, a green shirt with a big shamrock on it, and green socks with leprechauns on them. I got dressed up like Cinderella and then put on the green crown, boa and necklace that mommy found for me and became the Irish Cinderella. :)

Today we went to Chippewa Nature Center for Maple Syrup Day. It was a lot of fun. There were some craft projects to do. Mommy helped me make a mokuk (a birchwood basket). After that, she helped me stencil a leaf onto a small white bag. That was fun, and the lady running the project said it was one of the best ones she'd seen yet! After we finished the projects, we went and had applesauce, sausage, and pancakes with real maple syrup for lunch. They were really good. My pancake was shaped like Mickey Mouse and had a yellow M&M for a nose. After lunch, we went outside and took a hayride back to the Sugarhouse. Once we got there, we learned all about how they make maple syrup.

Then we went out into the woods to see the buckets hanging on the trees and I got to taste some sap. It pretty much tasted just like water. After that we went to the old school house and learned about how trees are tapped for collecting sap. While we were outside, I rang the big bell. Then we walked over to where the barns are, but it's still too cold for the animals to be there. Hopefully I'll get to go back and see them in the summer. After we walked through an old cabin, where I worked an old washing machine, we walked back to the Nature Center and found our car and came home. I had a really good time and I'm glad I got to go to Maple Syrup Day.

Got my face painted at the school carnival
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Tonight my school had a carnival. It was a lot of fun. There were all kinds of games. I really liked the Banana Toss. Getting my face painted was a lot of fun, too. I had them paint me as a rainbow bird. I tried all the games, and at a lot of them I just got a piece of candy for trying, but I did win a few gold tokens that I got to cash in for prizes. I even got to see Lou E. Loon. That might have been more exciting than anything, except getting my face painted. I can't wait until next year's carnival!