Bird Mobile

Nina and Rachel and I made this cute bird mobile around Easter time. We have really enjoyed our little flock, but I can only handle decorations hanging around for about a month and now it is time for it to go. We wanted to immortalize it on our blog so saying goodbye would be easier, and so we would show off how cute and crafty we are.

Who Do You Think You Are?

I don't watch much TV. I don't think there's much I'm missing, and I'm busy enough as it is. But one show I do watch and have really enjoyed is "Who Do You Think You Are?" about celebrities looking into their family history. Particularly eye-opening/though-provoking were the episodes featuring Emmett Smith (Slavery) and Lisa Kudrow (Holocaust). A couple of the celebrities come across almost stereotypically- Missy and I would roll our eyes sometimes. But on the whole, it was interesting how normal they are. We particularly liked how Lisa Kudrow was really nervous about calling someone.

The last two episodes of the season are this Friday and next Friday, so take a look.

If you've missed the others, you can watch them free on Hulu.

April Fools Day 2010

A few April Fools events worthy of mention:

1)The "elementary school" called Grant in the morning and asked if he could be the substitute teacher for his class that day. It says a lot about Grant's opinion of himself that he agreed with no questions asked. I broke the news to him that it was a joke after he had already written out a schedule of what he was going to teach all day (I think he added a few extra recesses). He was a bit relieved, but also disappointed because I had told him that substitute teachers usually got paid. Funny thing- his teacher actually WAS absent!

2) Nina tricked Dave into believing that his new Droid cell phone had been delivered, when all it really was was a box with R2-D2 and C3-PO in it.

3) Grant got a lunch box full of baby food- including baby formula in his water bottle.

4) We had a crazy mixed up dinner- some of the menu included fried humming bird eggs, fried ostrich eggs, jello-ed drinks and cookies that looked a whole lot like fish sticks.

Easter

My girls and I had a visit with the Easter Bunny at the mall. Funny thing- the Easter Bunny is deaf! We were chatting with him for a while and the girls started signing to him and he signed back. It turns out that he knows sign language pretty well. He actually must be pretty good at lipreading because he understood us perfectly, but would reply in sign. So I guess it just means maybe he just can't speak. Well, after all, he is a bunny. . . who also lives in a giant teapot. Some parts of how we celebrate Easter just don't make much sense.
Here are my sweet Easter Chicks. They were not happy to have to pose for pictures when they wanted to start inhaling their Easter candy.

Sure, she may look all sweet and innocent, but our Meg is also known as the Destroyer of Pansies. Aren't Pansies edible flowers? I hope so. But the Destroyer of Pansies does not care if something is edible or not before she tries to eat it. Her other favorite things to nibble are bits of carpet, various strings and hairballs. Yum.

Are You Mad?

I saw this somewhere online some time ago (I didn't read it but just clipped the image to write about it later- it's from Newsweek). Just the headlines say a lot about our society. Call me crazy.

Fill Out Your Census Form and Send It!

For those of you that have not received or followed through with your 2010 Census Form, I am begging you to take care of that today. A report last night said only about 50% of households have sent them back. If you send it, it costs taxpayers 42 cents. If you don't they must be law knock on your door, so then you're costing taxpayers about $60.

Saving tax money aside, recently I've been spending a lot of time doing genealogy and leaning heavily on the federal census. It is an amazing resource. I hope your descendants won't need a census record to know who you are, but you never know...

Catch-up

I finally downloaded the pictures from my camera from the last few months, so here are a few random pics and brief explanations. I am having difficulty aligning the picture to it's caption, so you will just have to match them up yourself.

Nina and I made these mini-cupcakes for her Kindergarten class when I came to teach the Meet the Masters Art lesson on Goya. The kids drew self portraits of themselves and then got to have a Goya or Boya cupcake.

We celebrated Dave Day on Feb 28 this year. Rachel and Dave have the same birthday in June, and Dave does not like sharing, so he gets his own special day on a different day of the year. Mysterious finger prints kept appearing in this years Dave Day cake. (Rachel was the guilty one!)

My two little princesses and I went out on a Girls Movie Night to see the Princess and the Frog together. The movie was OK- but none of us were very impressed by it. Too much frog, not enough princess.

The grand finale of our Valentines Day celebration was a modified chocolate fondue dessert. Rachel got a dessert and a facial treatment all in one.