Last Day to be 10 Years Old Ever Again for the Rest of Her Life!

               

          We’ve always had a tradition to celebrate the day before a birthday in some small way. Always saying, “it’s the last day before you turn eleven”, as in Miss Hannah’s case tomorrow. Last day to be ten and do one more thing a ten year old would do because you never have that chance again for the rest of your life.  Most of the time it’s something like climbing to the top of the tree or spending the night outside on the trampoline. But as the girls get older they are starting to become interested in other things. Before Miss Kayli turned twelve last November we took her to get a spa pedicure. It was a fun girls day but definitely not as childish as I would’ve hoped.

 

                Last Christmas, Miss Hannah asked Santa for one of the American Girl dolls. Her dad and I were a bit concerned due to the cost of it. But as we discussed it decided she wouldn’t be asking for dolls much longer and decided to get it for her. The temporary innocence of this request definitely pulled on both of our heart strings. Christmas morning she woke up and found the doll waiting for her, needless to say she was elated.

 

                Hannah will be eleven tomorrow. I am so proud of the young lady she is growing up to be but I must say each birthday is bittersweet. It’s hard letting go more and more. I know as I do it creates a trustworthy independence within her. I remember hearing somewhere that children learn to become trustworthy when trust is put in them. I love this sweet girl of mine and am enjoying this temporary time with her.  

 

               So, Hannah's last day to be ten years old we are going to take our sleeping bags and sleep on the deck, read spooky stories with the flash light held up to our face, meanwhile eating all kinds of unhealthy junk.

 

HAPPIEST LAST DAY BEING 10!!

 

GIANT Kerplunk

 

This is a DIY Giant Kerplunk Tutorial explained by the lovely Miss Hannah, age 10.

 

Supply List:

30 - 40 dowels

8 ft of scrap wire fencing

3 2X4 pieces of wood

screws

An adult to help

Paint (if you want)

 

 

So, I was elected game leader with my friend in our 4H Club. Anyhow, we have to come up with some pretty cool games otherwise the kids get annoyed and bored. The sorta hard thing is that ages are all over the place! So we had to think of games that would be fun for ages from Kindergarten all the way up through High School. Not the easiest...

 

The above picture shows a simple base that my Dad made out of 2X4s. He made a square as you can see then screwed legs onto it. I don't think he wanted me to use his saw so he did all the cutting. Or he just likes playing with his tools. The fencing we had behind the goat barn as scrap so we just stapled it on with a staple gun.

 

Here I am posing with the assembled "Kerplunk" game. I worked on this in my Dad's shop with my friend (the other game leader) we had to crop her out of pictures though because my Mom said we didn't have permission from her Mom to post her on the Internet.

 

I'm getting ready to paint (please ignore my Dad's bike photobombing this picture).

 

 

Good thing this was in the shop my Mom said later on...we made a bit of a mess. But it was amazing art.

 

It was very sunny outside (where this picture was taken) so it's hard to tell but my hands are covered in paint. Some days it's nice to have hands covered in paint. I highly recommend it.

 

This picture (above) shows the dowels that we spray painted drying on our pool ladder. We used whatever spray paint we already had at home. I was hoping to have other colors but my Mom didn't want to spend money on spray paint. I guess I understand.

 

Thanks for taking a look. It's very easy to make. You can use anything for a base. Something I might have done differently is use chicken wire instead of the wire fencing. The dowels slid around a lot in between the squares especially with all the 4H kids going after them.