We just reread The Odyssey by Gillan Cross for the second time. It is on loan to us by our good friend L and her kids. Fina just loves it and asked if we could buy it at some point.  I see Cross has written a kid's version of The Illiad as well, I should look into getting it (and then we could return the favour to our friends and loan it to them).

We are almost finished reading Peter Pan (from our free-reading list).  We got to the point where Tinker Bell drinks the poison to save Peter and we really thought she was going to die.

SPOILER ALERT:  She doesn't die!!! It was well written. Dad happened to be in the same room while I was reading it, and he also gasped, thinking that was the end of Tink.

Fina is really enjoying Peter Pan, though I think many of the fighting scenes and descriptions are quite over her head. She just listens attentively all the same.

Fina and dad went out to a soccer game yesterday afternoon. It was a lovely and sunny (though chilly) day. They had a lot of fun (I think!)

Oh, and yesterday I picked up this half completed Knot-a-Quilt kit at our local, very friendly, crafty / collectibles / "re-purpose and recycle stuff to make cool stuff" shop, The Artist Pivot. (We love Kim, the owner!)  And Fina got into it right away last night. Essentially, there are fleece squares with this little fringe all around them. You take two of the fringe strips and double knot them together. And you keep doing it around and around.

This is one she started.

This gives you a better idea of what it is and how the knotted-fringe looks.

She thinks she is going to make little quilts for her dolls and possibly some for her friends as well. Christmas presents? We'll see. Anyway, she set up a quilting corner behind her bedroom door and said that this morning before coming down (if her glowing clock was not yet glowing, which tells her she is allowed to actually come out of her room!) she would work on her quilt. Well, at 7:20, 20 minutes before her glowing clock glows, I heard her bedroom door slam (at least she shut it to not wake us up with the bright light) so I guess she is working on it.

(Wait, she might not be that considerate. She MIGHT have shut her door because she needed to get in behind there to her quilting corner!)

She has been at it for 40 minutes already! Without coming downstairs!!!

UPDATE: this is what she was working on in the car on the way to the city today.

Does she look happy or what?!?!