Welcome to week one of this blog’s temporary transition to Mommy-blogdom. I would apologize but I know how many pageviews I have, which means all of you do indeed love my offspring. :)
As you know, I have recently left the world of stable employment–a place where I was paid the same regardless of whether I was frantically busy or playing solitaire–and am now pursuing a world of merit-based pay. Why yes, it is terrifying, thanks for asking.
But the biggest upside is that the entire month of July that I have my children, I actually HAVE my children. We’re together pretty much 24/7 and I’m cramming as much happy fun time as I can into that time frame. Which I manage to do while maintaining my constant “available” status on gchat because I am just that awesome.
A brief look at the joys of the past week:
Fourth of July! Stupid drought meant no fireworks, but we did make this:
Which actually, I’m not a fan of. Next time I’ll use my own favorite white cake recipe and a different frosting altogether. Fortunately, as the picture proves, I’m in the minority. And it IS visually striking, no question.
Next up, family paper lantern project.
This was fun, but we learned that there’s a fine balance between enough layers of tissue paper to make the lanterns stable and enough layers of tissue paper to obscure the tea lights we have inside.
Beth, naturally, was very focused:
This picture may show the only piece of tissue paper Tori actually applied to her own lantern:
I think the resigned look on Jason’s face tells you everything you need to know about making paper lanterns with a 3 year old.
TA-DA!
And our Egypt project of the week was sugar cube pyramids.
This was amazingly fun. Learn from our mistakes: a hollow pyramid is NOT a happy pyramid. We ended up frantically stuffing ours with tissue paper to keep it from collapsing on itself. Also, if you saturate a sugar cube with glue, it WILL begin to melt. Finally, keep an eye on little fingers and the sugar cubes because there is a clear inverse relationship between the amount of sugar cubes consumed and the amount of focus the children have on pyramid construction. They are faster than you think and faster still after a couple of sugar cubes.
Tori is so focused in this picture….clearly an early portion of the project. :)
Elizabeth has developed an inexplicable desire to “bunny ear” herself in pictures….
And of course, the dramatic conclusion:
HOW CUTE IS TORI’S FACE IN THAT PICTURE?! I mean, seriously, who could resist that level of cuteness?
That’s all for last week’s activities. This week, we had the Museum of Natural Science already, and we’ll be doing the Children’s Museum, a butterfly project and a sculpted sphinx. I can’t wait! :)
