We took the girls bowling for the first time this afternoon. Thanks to gutter bumpers and a ball guide, they nearly out bowled me.
3 Mar
Overheard: Party planning edition
Olivia: “Mom, on my 16th birthday, I want a real, live unicorn pet and a purple hamster.”
2 Mar
Ava Fix
Today is “Crazy Sock Day” at school in honor of Dr. Seuss’s birthday. Bryan (who woke us up by blaring Rebecca Black’s “Friday”) made the girls green eggs to celebrate.
1 Mar
Coconut-Mango Muffins
Made these (relatively) low-sugar muffins for a playdate last Saturday, and happily, there were a few left over for breakfast early this week. I used frozen mangoes (a smoothie staple in our house), and coarsely-shaved sweetened coconut.
28 Feb
Four is the new two
Things by which Olivia has been upset, in the last three days alone:
- Her shadow (it wouldn’t stop following her).
- The fact that she hates “ALL OF HER CLOTHES. EVERY SINGLE THING.”
- My inability to tell how to count to “several.”
- Sleeping through the Jupiter viewing, which “WILL ONLY HAPPEN NEVER AGAIN.”
27 Feb
Planetgazing
Over the past few nights, the moon, Jupiter and Venus have aligned in the same “binocular field.” It’s a rather amazing site, visible as soon as darkness falls. Last night, Bryan set up the telescope, and we found we could see all four of Jupiter’s main moons.
The view of our moon was pretty spectacular, too. Here’s an image Bryan captured through the scope with his iPhone camera.
23 Feb
Red letter day
As I walked past the calendar earlier this week, I noticed someone had added an item for next Monday…
Ava’s classroom earned their “Happy People” award, which I believe entails adding something to a jar every time a class member does…something happy? I need to figure out the details, but the bottom line is that the class voted for a “bring your parents to school” day for their collective reward. The teacher quickly noted a 20-30 minute visit would be sufficient. And here I was looking so forward to PE class…
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