almost five year old news

Ella and the family finished her 100 New Book marathon, and I'm retiring from huge goal oriented endeavors. It was just too huge and all in MY mind, so I'm trying to scale back. Not to say that she isn't proud. She just learned to count to one hundred, making it all the better. John had a great idea that she could apply for her own library card today, and she can write both her first and last name to get that. It all started with the lame library summer reading program. We read our twenty books in a week and decided to keep going. Who knows how many we really read, but we recorded one hundred. The most thrilling thing for Ella was seeing her name on a contruction paper castle on the library wall.