Sloshy belly dance

Pencil--- enough said:

Quotes from recently:
My neck hates my stomach and my stomach hates my neck.  (said when he was sick)

I feel really rich, and angry! (as he was reenacting a video game where the characters eat a sandwich and grow into a giant-- a la the HULK)

One time, there were carrot cubes in my puke. It's not funny!

You're a good cooker, Mom. But next time can we just have Little Caeser's?

Hey, look! I'm doing what everyone else is doing! (at preschool... meaning he was on task instead of wandering around or playing toys)

a quick note

Feta is seven months old now.
Time is moving too fast!

She loves her walker, and moves VERY fast in it. Toes beware!

To celebrate Easter

 Our Easter Weekend was simply lovely, thanks for asking.
Some of the things we want to remember...

An odyssey

My Grapes has been on an Odyssey Of The Mind team. They work together to solve a long-term problem (and then present their 'solution' to the judges) as well as preparing for a spontaneous/unpracticed problem in front of judges.

Grape's team worked on scripting, rehearsing, designing and presenting (making props and costumes as well as sets) for MONTHS.

The True Meaning of Easter

We have a family activity that we have done every year for Easter and I have had a few friends ask about it lately. I thought I'd share it here so you can do it too.

This bag is falling a part! It holds 11 plastic eggs (ours are all different colors, but you could do it however you like) Each eggs holds a scripture reference and a small item to help tell the story of the first Easter and the reason we are really celebrating this time of year.

We usually just take turns opening the eggs and reading and talking about the insides, but you could easily hide and find the eggs first.  This has been a family night activity for us, but some years it has been an Easter Sunday activity instead (because we invite the chocolate and bunnies on Saturday)


I suggest labeling the eggs with numbers.  We just have a ratty paper that tells the order by colors, which is bit of a pain, and if we ever lost the paper we would be in trouble!

So here you go:
 The True Meaning of Easter

Egg #1- Matthew 26:39
Small cup