Kara & Brooke

Kara likes to speak her mind. She doesn't care if the person she's talking about can hear her, if what she has to say is rude, or if she just plain doesn't like something - she lets you know about it. Doesn't matter if we're home, at church, at the store. I don't know where she gets it from.


Kara said last night to us at bedtime, "My teacher has come up with a way to help control my outbursts in class. She gave me a rectangle of paper to decorate and tape to my desk. When I want to speak out of turn in class I get to make a mark on that paper if I don't speak out. Then when I get ten marks on the paper I can have a talk with her one on one."

I said, "How many marks do you have so far?"

Kara said, "Nine."

I said, "How long have you had this paper so far?"

Kara, "Just got it today."

I was speechless. Oh, Kara. This poor teacher deserves an award.

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Brooke still is best friends with the little boy named Bentley. He's a sweet kid and has even come over to our house to play. Brooke came home upset the other day that some kids in her class started teasing them singing "Brookie and Bentley sitting in a tree...".

She didn't finish the song, but her little face looked so sad that I knew she heard the rest of the song too. She said, "Mom, we're just not interested in each other like that. We're just best friends." So sad. So funny.

Apparently Bentley's older brothers have the same thoughts since they have asked Bentley about Brooke being his girlfriend. I hope this doesn't discourage them from being friends because he is a really good kid and Brooke has a lot of fun with him.

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Kara has some funny fuzzy maroon stretchy pants she wears to bed sometimes. One night she came into our room for nighttime prayer and Brooke said, "Whoa! Kara! Those pants! Your butt looks cool! I can see your butt cheeks loud and clear!"

It took a few minutes before we were reverent enough for the prayer after that. When Kara has worn those pants since then she simply says "I know, my butt looks cool." At least it didn't give her a complex because we still love to bring that up and laugh.