Stay Tuned

Because one day we MIGHT do something new and interesting. But until then basically it’s the same old thing all over again. This time-a trip to the museum (again) but with “J.”

Big wheels keep on rolling….


AAHHHHHH!


“T” tell “J” she is touching fossilized dinosaur poop.


Must be an Apatosaurus skeleton.




Showing the real fossils she dug up.

Lego Man

"T" loves Lego's and so do I. I love them because I think they are a great brain building toy. “T” loves them because they are just plain AWESOME!

Sometime last fall I showed "T" how to follow the directions on a small Lego set. They next thing I knew he built this….


Wow- the instruction booklet was just that, a BOOK! I promise we didn't help him a bit. I personally think my son must be an engineering whiz kid-but the packages says "for ages 6-10" etc...I shouldn’t be too impressed since the company expects a six year to build this stuff.

I wish we had photo graphed a few more of the things he has built because just the other day he decided to dismantle everything. Now we have 1000s of tiny pieces everywhere and he is making up his own creations. Still fun-just messier.

Race Car set from Auntie Sue


Scary creation from Indiana Jones (the movie by the way not really appropriate for little kids-as we found out by showing it to them)

Catching Up

Whoops....did I forget the month of February? I didn't realize how long it has been since my last post. We have been busy-but we haven't done much photo worthy. This is what you've missed.

Snow and more snow-unprecedented amounts of snow.






Notice that children in the south wear rain boots in the snow





Other than the snow...we have pets.

Seriously this life is way too luxurious for any dog-let alone a couple of "mutts".




"I guess he’s our now". This stray, abandoned by some renters in our neighborhood when they moved, adopted and moved to a new home along with a second set of neighbors, came back this winter, preferring a permanent home in our garage (with a ratty old blanket) to whatever place our old neighbors took him. We call him Orange Kitty and I guess the next step is a rabies shot and a collar.


This brings our grand total to 2 dogs, 3 cats and a frog.....I am lobbying (without much luck) for chickens.

Who Knew

I never knew it but apparently we have a world class museum right up the road from us. Today “T” and I visited it for the first time. Wow! It was awesome. We stayed 4 hours and I think “T” could have stayed longer. Not me, I was tired. I am not sure what we enjoyed more…being the only ones in the planetarium and getting a personalized show, digging for and keeping real fossils, panning for an keeping real semi-precious gems or standing right next to giant pre-historic fossils. I think it’s a tie-it was all great.

One small step for man....


Chomp


Electricity is FUN!


.....and that is his lower incisor


Digging for fossils


Greatbigturtleosaurus


Panning for gold

Sculpt de Play Doh

"J" loves to create-here are a few of her latest works.

Before and After

I am learning that children, as they get older, develop something called an "opinion." Often these "opinions" may differ greatly from your own. There are opinions like "chocolate would be a good diner" that you overrule. And others like wearing head to toe pink one day and black the next that you go along with. I believe in letting children make choices-but it is certainly getting harder. For instance my son wanted his hair to be long and gelled back like this:


But it usually just looked like this:


I really hated this style-but knowing that a little self expression goes a long way-I endured it. It’s not like he wanted a tattoo of Sponge Bob on his derrière. But still I wanted to cut his hair. I offered bribes for him to have it cut…20 dollars, a pet…..yes I was desperate. Until I had the brilliant idea to show him hairstyles on the internet. Voila! He picked a new style. It is a little avant garde -but I prefer it over slicked back any day

Spiky-requires lots of hair "product" but worth it.

Happy New Year

We let the kids stay up late on New Years Eve. I told them that if they were still awake at Midnight they could throw confetti. I never thought they would make it past 10:00. Boy was I wrong.....