Birthday Scavenger Hunt

Today we awoke to the sound of Brenna happily chanting "I'm seven! I'm seven! I'm seven!" Instead of just giving Brenna her birthday present, we set up a scavenger hunt.

Her first clue: "Before you learn to walk or trot, you first put these on over your socks."

She immediately found the second clue tucked into her riding boots.

"Even Papa likes to sing along with this little orphan who knows the sun will come out tomorrow."

Another clue inside the Annie DVD case another clue, "You have a special place inside your room for crayons, paper, and designs."

She looked in the drawer, in the books, and then started hunting around other parts of her room for "crayons," but after reading the clue again she resumed her hunt and finally found the clue held by the blue clip on top of the desk.

"When it's time to eat, earning this commission is a $ .25 treat."

This clue took her a teensy bit longer. First she stopped at our Commission worksheet to hunt for a new paper clue.

Then she remembered that she gets $ .25 for setting the table and she found the next clue in the silverware drawer.

That clue led her to the piano, where she found the last clue in the bench. "You stare at this for hours each week, but have you ever wondered what's underneath?"

We really needed to write harder clues, because she instantly went to the television.

After briefly looking under the entertainment center for a piece of paper, she opened the cabinet door and found her present!

Brenna asked for a "boy Barbie" doll to replace poor Prince Eric (of The Little Mermaid fame) whose head had broken off. She was quite pleased with King I want to be an inventor (what's-his-name) from the new (not yet released) Barbie movie "The Three Musketeers".