B woke in the night with a fever, and she’s still mildly feverish this morning but seems happy. She got up before any of us and was reading Goblet of Fire in front of the heater when I got up *g* I asked her to read me a couple of sentences (from part of the book she’d already worked out) and she did so flawlessly. Since then, she’s made K a “robot dog” out of K’Nex, which inspired her to pull down the Lego Mindstorms and investigate how to make a car. She went back to HP as the Lego is still a bit much for her unaided, I think. After the schools programs came on, she watched TV for two hours: BTN, a poetry program, and a science documentary on the origins of the earth. Her cold is apparently getting worse as she has now retreated to bed. She has said she feels too crappy to go out to the farm, so she MUST be sick!

K asked for her button board down from the top of the shelves when B was up there getting her Lego, and did a couple of patterns while I was out feeding/watering the animals; then it was time for Play School. We played Duplo together while B was watching TV. After apparently deciding to to annoy the heck out of me in the most creative ways she possibly could, she settled down to do some drawing at the kitchen table, then wandered off and could be heard telling herself a long and involved story about dinosaurs, dragons and various other beasties having adventures. Sometimes I wish I had a portable tape recorder so I could keep a record of these stories. They are so creative and funny *g*