Sunday, late afternoon. Mark off at a magic lecture. Kaylee just out of the shower. Somehow the subject of “Weird Al” Yankovic’s “Eat It” comes up (probably as we were trying to decide what we wanted for supper). I pull it up online for them to hear. Spontaneous dance party to erupts. We take turns picking songs for the next hour and a half. Good times. :)
When Mark has D&D, the kids (including any extra kids who may have tagged along with their gaming dads) and I always have frozen pizza for supper. It’s quick and cheap and easy, and as far as the kids are concerned, it’s as good as a gourmet meal. :)
The kids had chocolate ice cream for dessert. They made sure they got every last bit of it. :)
Matthew had been studying whales in science and had to complete this collaged version of a fluke. I’m not sure what most of the questions had to do with science, but it was a cute project. His answers (with his spelling and factual… um… “adjustments”)…
After over 5½” of rain in two days, the playground areas at the park resembled swimming pools.
Kaylee was all ready to dive in after school.
Her face as she caught sight of the smaller play area from the top of the larger structure…
Fortunately, that was the end of the rain for a while, and the water had subsided by morning.
Kaylee decided to build a “thinking chamber” out of pillows as a place to help her focus and get her homework done. :)
Kaylee, running into the room: “Mom, Mom, Mom! Take a picture!”
Me: “Why”
Kaylee": “Because I look FAB-ulous!!!”
Yes, Sweetie, indeed you do. :)
The kids spent most of the day relaxing and playing games while I got caught up some laundry. I lost count of which load this was.
The weather was beautiful Saturday morning, so the kids and I spent an action-packed hour at the park.
There was lots of swinging… even synchronized. :)
Kaylee’s gotten quite good at pumping to swing herself.
It makes ever-so cautious Matthew nervous. He tells her not to swing so high!
Then it was on to the basketball court. Kaylee was telling Matthew to get out of the way, so he demonstrated that he wasn’t tall enough to block. He got some good air though. :)
Then Kaylee went to the other end of the court for some hopscotch. Look at that ponytail go!
She spent some time “drawing” with the rock she’d picked up for hopscotch.
Then there was time hanging out on the playground. Matthew was very proud that he made it up this twisty ladder. :)
Showing off the precious rock that Kaylee has now decided is a fossil. ;) Poor fossil would meet an unfortunate fate. I put it in my pocket for safekeeping, but it fell out when I took out my phone to check the time and was lost among the bark mulch. Bad mommy.
Matthew examines the planet cube grid.
Kaylee’s main reason for wanting to come to the park was so she could practice on the monkey bars. Matthew demonstrated for her. His feet are still just barely off the ground.
Ta-da!
In spite of our encouragement, Kaylee was too scared to try, even though she’s only a few inches shorter than Matthew.
Maybe it would be easier from the other side. Hmmm. Nope. No go.
Finally, after leaving the playground area to go for a walk, Kaylee pleaded to go back for one more try.
Yay! She’s off the ladder!
She didn’t make it across, but it’s a start!
Of course, she had no qualms at all about again making Matthew nervous, climbing up this thingamabob...
to a height much above what she was on the monkey bars.
Silly girl.
I giggled when I went to do dishes and was greeted by a view of twin unicorn rumps. (I won this pair for Kaylee from a crane machine at a birthday party last fall. She’s left them at the table after breakfast this morning.)
Is it just me, or do they look a little bit embarrassed? ;)
We pulled out the kids’ globe for Matthew’s social studies homework. He had to identify locations based on longitude and latitude coordinates. Worked great for the big stuff. We had much harder time with the problems that were precise locations within California. If anyone knows of a good online resource for detailed state maps that include longitude and latitude lines, please let me know. :b
Matthew actually finished his homework early enough to have a little downtime before supper, so he and Kaylee watched some videos in her room.
Saying goodbye to August. This is command central for keeping our schedules organized – calendar for everyone’s appointments and events, bulletin board for the school lunch menu and ongoing school assignments and such, and Matthew’s karate school schedule taped to the cabinet. The schedule is still up there from last spring in the hope that he'll be able to start up again at some point, although he’s got so much homework right now that I don’t know how we’ll manage if/when that happens.
Kaylee doing her spelling homework. After sorting her assigned list into pattern categories, she had to come up with her own additional words that matched the patterns.
Shot of my desk in work mode. I spent a lot of the day putting together an ad for the ScrapDish storewide sale, and organizing files and creating new previews and detail shots for a couple of former collab products I decided to rerelease. I haven’t had the bug to design anything new in ages; I seem to only be able to think in scrap mode these days.
Kaylee took a picture of me with this little toy “camera”.
I knew I’d been feeling older lately…
:)
After taking a summer hiatus from walking, I’ve started taking a leisurely stroll after Matthew gets on his bus. This again is the pond at the park. Very peaceful and pretty in the morning light.
I hadn’t noticed this carving in the concrete under the little footbridge before. Makes me wonder who TJT is/are, and what they’re doing now, 35 years later. :)
