Last week she came home with a work sheet they had done in class. It was about subtraction. It had some big words on it: minuend, subtrahend and difference. (Bonus points to anyone who can tell me what those actually are.) My first thought was, "Well, that's gonna come in handy." I mean, I can't tell you how many times those words come up in my daily conversation. I think I might have used those words (with the exception of difference) exactly once in my entire life...and that was when I was telling N about H's paper. Oh well. She loves school and I am very thankful.
H turned the BIG 6 last week. I've been asking her what cake she wanted for a while now and it seemed to change every time I asked. As her birthday got closer she decided on a Care Bear cake. Let me tell you, I've made one of those before and my hand was in a lovely cramped position for a week afterward. I was not looking forward to it.
Enter Tiffin's birthday cake. She let her kids decorate her birthday cake. When H saw it she told me she wanted one just like it. And she wanted to frost it. So, I made her a Care Bear cake and some frosting and let her loose on the cake. Here's the finished product.
She calls it Rainbow Bear. We also went to Chuck E. Cheese's for her birthday. The kids had a great time. H loved all of her presents and had a great birthday.
Okay, so the picture is kind of gross, but I wanted to get the full effect. H lost her first tooth at the beginning of August. Last week I asked If I could see if her new tooth was coming in yet. When I looked I discovered that not only was it coming in, but the tooth next to it was coming in behind the baby tooth that was still there. Luckily, the baby tooth was loose so I told her we had to work hard to get it out asap or she was going to the dentist to have it pulled. A couple of nights ago, N was wiggling it, heard a little pop and saw her tooth just flapping around. So he did what any good father would do and pulled it out. Now we're just praying that her permanent tooth moves where it should be all on it's own.
What a fun birthday! The cake looks great!
ReplyDeleteI love bonus points! The minuend is the number you are subtracting from, the subtrahend is the number you are subtracting, and the difference is the answer to the subtraction problem! And I didn't even have to look it up!
ReplyDeleteThe kids do such at good job of decorating cakes. They are so colorful, and you don't feel bad about eating them.
Both of Adam's lower permanent teeth grew in behind his baby teeth, and they both moved forward on their own. His dentist said that it normally happens, as long as you get the baby tooth out quickly enough, and it sounds like you did. It sounds like Hailey had a great month!
ReplyDeleteWell that took me back to grade school! Kristi beat me to the bonus points. I hadn't heard / read those words since grade school, but I do remember learning them - although, in truth, I couldn't remember which word went to which number - except "difference", of course.
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