Katherine

Katherine often gets enthralled with one particular thing at a time... her most recent "kicks" are these.

1) Pilgrim's Progress (they are reading an abridged version in Sunday School), especially Pilgrim and his burden. This started sometime last fall, and then she wanted to pretend to be Christian and have a burden on her back. And find all the hymns about burdens ("Cast Thy Burden on the Lord" etc.).

2) Then it switched to pigs. Judy Rogers' song "Isabelle is a Pig" about a little girl who though dressed up in pretty clothes, has a horrible temper and likes to pitch a fit when things don't go her way - like a pig with a ring in his nose, who then wallows in the mud. The ring doesn't make the pig look good when it is in the mud. Pretty clothes don't make you look nice when you are throwing a tantrum. Anyway. So she gets on a kick about pigs, pretends to BE Isabelle (what was the point of the song??), and sings the song incessantly.

3) Then most recently, she read the "Three Billy Goats Gruff" and got on a kick about goats and the troll. Everything goat. Find all the Three Billy Goats Gruff stories. And any other stories about goats or trolls. Draw them, make models of the story out of Bristle Blocks or any other toys lying around, act out the story (with our indoor slide becoming a bridge and some 2nd person accommodating and being the troll). She picked a set of plastic animals that included 2 goats in it, for a birthday present.

She's also very creative and constantly thinks of things to make out of paper (a ring! a basket! a card for someone, with drawings or cutout holes or other interesting bits). She likes "jewels" (like those transparent flat "marbles" you use in floral arrangements).

She's our Katherine!