We celebrated Katy’s 11th birthday with the family. She will have her party with her friends sometime after spring break this week.
Category: Family
Rick stopped by while my parents were out here visiting. So, we took the whole family out to see his plane. It was the first time my parents have seen the plane he is flying these days. Rick, here are the full size images.
Margaret got her brownie pin today in a ceremony where they all became official brownies. Luckily for me, there were lots of cupcakes there.
Katy did her first science fair. She got an A on the project. Here are all the pictures she took while she was collecting her data. She ran the experiment and collected all the data. Elizabeth worked hard on the presentation.
Today was Sam’s 4th birthday. We had the party last weekend, so tonight was just family. Katy took some of these pictures, she did fairly well.
Today was Sam’s birthday party with all of his friends. Elizabeth made him a car cake. He had a bunch of friends come over and play in the bouncy house, paint cookies, and other projects. He got lots of toys and a good time was had by all.
Katy needed to learn how to spell some of the states and the capitols. As you can see by the note above, it did not go particularly well. She spent a lot of time yelling at us, then when I went up to bed, she was lying in her bed whining. I ignored her until she went to sleep. When Elizabeth and I went into her room, we found a note on her whiteboard for us. She had fallen asleep with her whiteboard in bed with her. The text of the note is as follows:
Dear Mama and Daddy,
See! I don’t know how to spell Raleigh or Phoenix. I had to look these ones up! Don’t tell me I will never learn them, ‘case I will, without any of your support or help!
P.S. I hate you and will still be mad at you tommorro nor matter what you tell me. “People will like you alot better if you are nice” “I am going to have to kick you out of this family if you don’t start behaving,” “I am tiered of your attetude” because I don’t care. I Hate you, Katy.
I HATE YOU.
Today (3/4), at Sam’s birthday party, she wrote both Raleigh and Pheonix (spelled correctly) on her art project and made a point of telling me that she did this.
Katy took her first snowboarding lesson. She did very well. They went down the little “first-timer” hill a few times, then went and boarded the mountain. At the same time, Margaret and Sam had a group lesson. Margaret is all over it, Sam got tired and spent the rest of the time sitting at the bottom eating chips.
Margaret had a bunch of friends over for her birthday party today. We set the bouncy house up in the back yard and Elizabeth had lots of activities for them all to do. On a side note, Elizabeth has decided that this sign will stay up all year around.
Tonight, we went to the Exploratorium to see the new Reconsidered Materials exhibit. The most popular item by far, was the San Francisco made from Jello. Unfortunately, I didn’t have the lens I needed to photograph it well. You can see where we found out about it, here.
It was a night time open house kind of thing at the Exploratorium. There were a lot of the artists from the Reconsidered Materials show there. The kids had fun doing all of the normal Exploratorium stuff as well. It was interesting being there at night. Not nearly as many kids, most of the adults were just waiting in line for drinks and trying to look at the Jello. Luckily, we were pretty much the first ones in, so we got a good look at the Jello before it became too crowded.
We even saw performance art. Katy and I did not understand it. (That is because it was really BAD performance art – Elizabeth. I really liked a piece called “Constellation” that looked like an illuminated bottle tree. There are some photos of it, too. The piece was supposed to say something about chemistry but I didn’t hear it. But it was beautiful.)