Elizabeth hanging out with some of her buddies at school. Every day after school the kids spend about an hour running around on the grass outside the school. It has become an extended part of their school time and good luck if you have an appointment after school or need to take them home as soon as school is over--they are not happy if they don't get to play with their good buddies.

Last weekend Elizabeth buddy Kylie had her 5th birthday party. And much to Elizabeth's delight, she held the party at Fairyland. Elizabeth is now quite enamored of fairies. She and Kylie are reading a whole series of fairy books and it is so cute to hear them talk about all the adventures they are reading about. And the neat thing is that these are "chapter books". Just lots of type and a few drawings here and there.

Oh yes, did I tell you Elizabeth is reading. Yep, that twice a week tutoring and preschool classes are doing the trick. While she is not reading the chapter books on her own yet, she is reading the little beginning readers. Woo hoo! You go girl!

E and Grandma

Here are some photos of Elizabeth and her grandma Frances at one of Elizabeth's favorite lunch spots, the Neiman Marcus cafe. She calls it her tea cup lunch. Elizabeth made mother's day especially lovely this year. She even went shopping with dad and insisted he buy numerous jeweled (costume of course) items. She was so pleased to present me with a lovely diamond like necklace. I loved it. Some hours laters I spied Elizbeth wearing it and contemplating where she should keep "her" new necklace. I asked her, "who's necklace is that?" She look quizzically at me and said, "I don't remember." After a few minutes of negotiation we settled on sharing it, although there was some recollection that it was my mother's day present. To her credit the next morning she woke up and decided she would regift it back to me. Although it did look pretty good on her.

School Buddies

Elizabeth hanging out after school with some of her buddies. Actually the guy on the left is Caden, aka, "The Current Love of Elizabeth's Life.". The other day she told me she was going to marry Caden. I told her she didn't have to think about that until she was at least 20, I told her for now he could be her boyfriend. She looked at me, horrified and said, "What? Caden is going to be my boyfriend now, and then I am going to marry someone else?????"