The Otte's

 Denali is the star student in her classroom this week!  So we added her picture and info to the star of the week book.  I think she might have the best picture in there!

 Next she had to come up with a top ten list to share with her classmates, she wanted to name some of her friends, but I said that could hurt kids feelings, past that she came up with her list all on her own.  It is:

I have lots of friends.

I have been to lots of places.

I love to eat desert.

I like my teachers.

I was adopted.

I got baptized.

I play with Barbies.

I am a dancer.

I take Gymnastic.

and I have a great family.

and just to add, she also had I love shopping that she had to glue on the back, as there was not room on the front.

 Then the next big job, is she had to go through the hundreds of pictures we have and pick just 6 to share with the class.  Wow, this was time consuming and here is what we came up with.

A picture of the cousins in Memphis, and a picture in the garden with Isaiah and Quinn.

 A picture of her birthday party and a picture of the family in our Husker attire.  I miss out on being in most of the pictures and I'm ok with that for the most part.

Finally one with Denali, RL, and me,(I did make it in one.)  Ending was a dance picture.  I did not help her narrow them down or anything, just lots of prodding.  We started off with about 80 pictures, and getting it down to 6 was hard, but she made some great choices!

What an amazing kid!  We love you Denali!  Be ready, as the other two have their star weeks, we will get them on here as well!