In the car tonight, John told me about this week’s elective, Capture the Flag. He said “Well, we don’t have flags. We use frisbees.” I laughed and said “So it’s really capture the frisbee?” He said “Yea. We play pinnies and no pinnies. I like no pinnies. Cause when you play pinnies you gotta wear… Continue reading Pinnies
Our kids love a countdown. We countdown the number of days until vacation, Christmas, birthdays and the end of school (just to name a few things). A few years ago, I bought a sign to display our various countdowns. We are currently counting down to Gillian’s birthday. She is learning how to write her numbers… Continue reading Countdown
I had a little helper tonight. We had to make some cupcakes for Gillian’s birthday party tomorrow. Gillian helped make the chocolate cupcakes. I think she just wanted to lick the beaters. I always let them lick the beaters. Afterward she had chocolate all over her face. She didn’t believe me when I told her… Continue reading Baking
Daddy woke the kids up with Reveille this morning. He went into John’s room with Reveille playing on his cell phone. John woke up and said “I’m up. I’m up. I’m up. Dude, I said I’m up!” Next he went to wake up Gillian. She didn’t even open her eyes, she just flailed around until… Continue reading Reveille
What do you do when you build a catapult at camp during your woodworking elective? Well, in our house, you plan a sneak attack on Daddy with marshmallows. We even had Gillian help with the attack!
I received a call this afternoon from John’s camp. They informed me that John fell and hit his nose and mouth. He was upset, but they were applying ice to his nose. I asked to talk to John. He sounded very upset. He told me “I’m ok.” I asked if he wanted me to pick… Continue reading The nose plays
We took the kids to Ikea today. Daddy and I knew exactly what we needed but we still decided to walk around and look at everything. John and Gillian both carried around the paper measuring tapes to assist us. John also was the map reader. When we were downstairs in the marketplace I noticed that… Continue reading IKEA
I took Gillian to a birthday party yesterday at My Gym. Basically it is an indoor gym for little kids. They have a trampoline and a ball pit. They play a few games with the kids and at the end all the kids get to go on a zip line. Gillian was the fourth kid to go. She… Continue reading The Zip Line
Every week at John’s camp he has an elective. It is a special class only offered for a week and they spend about 45 minutes a day in the elective. John’s elective this week is rocketry. He came home on Monday telling us, “I got rocketry!” Daddy asked “Did you go to the moon?” John… Continue reading Houston, we have a problem…
Yesterday Gillian told us “We learned about owls today. And did you know owls sleep during the day and are awake at the night time?” I asked her “Do you know what that is called?” She said “Ummm, I think so.” But before she could think of it John shouted “Nocturnal. It’s nocturnal, Gill.” She… Continue reading Owls and Sharks
John and Gill went up a hill 