Because the Apple Doesn't Fall Far from the Tree.
Laurel is beginning to display the same stick-it-in-the-face-of-the-establishment attitude I've been known to have.
This means she pushes the envelope sometimes, questions authority, rolls her eyes, and sometimes is just downright sardonic.
Then there's the nice side, too. The polite, caring, friendly side.
Just depends on the days you get us.
At their worst, these traits are real forces with which to be reckoned; at their best, they lend a witty -- if defiant -- humor to our approaches to people and situations. I know her teachers agree!
Take, for example, Laurel's language arts homework. Every week, they get these super-awesome-killer spelling words that I absolutely eat up. Every week, she has to sit and form sentences of these words. Laurel being Laurel, she tries to find a way to short-cut things as much as possible. Sort of like me -- when faced with the assignment to draw up the 'first draft' of my will using 16 pages from our book as a model, I just copied and pasted my completed (and dare I say, superior) will into the assignment and called it a day.
But enough about me.
Each week after Laurel does her sentences, I have to review them for usage and spelling, etc. At first, she used one spelling word per sentence. A couple of weeks ago, she started using two words per sentences. Noticing a pattern, I asked her if this was allowable under Mrs. B.'s guidelines. She assured me it was.
Now it has become a game.
Here are this week's sentences (click to enlarge):
(I've had her fix the errors, like 'cacophany' and 'a pandemonium')
Of course, I see this and I nearly burst with glee. I think this is absolutely fantastic. Not that much makes me laugh right out loud, but this certainly did. Here she is, as creative as can be, cramming as many words as possible into a sentence to avoid having to write any more sentences (though I HAVE CAUTIONED HER that Mrs. B. is likely to take off points because she won't be able to tell Laurel knows what the words mean -- and rightly so -- to say nothing of the declining quality of her penmanship).
Greg (a/k/a Mr. Straight-and-Narrow) sees this and immediately questions its acceptability, because he's one to obey both the letter and the spirit of the law.
Guess we know which tree Laurel fell closest to, huh?
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