Less than an inch = no school

"snow castle"

It took all the snow in our yard to make our friend.

snow angel

ready to throw one

Jr First Lego League

It looks like we will be starting a Jr FLL club, at my house, this next month. Currently there are 3, 1st grade boys on the team. We won't be doing any robot programing this year, but maybe by the time they are 3rd graders we will incorporate it into our design. Unlike a FLL team for 4th-8th grades, JrFLL is non competitive and we do not have to have a robot.

This year's theme is Body Forward. We will be learning about biomedical engineering. Yes, 1st graders are going to learn what the term biomedical engineering means. They will be designing a tool, out of Legos, that is the result of biomedical engineering. I am looking forward to sharing their achievements with you.

Because she's cute even when she's sick

Sick day

Adaya is, at this moment, working on her 3rd or 4th nap of the day, this one in Daddy's favorite chair. Mom and Dad are still washing the blankets. This afternoon she has been able to keep some sipped juice (no she doesn't usually use a sippy cup) down. Hoping that this is a short bug and that the rest of us don't get it. I hear some wimpering coming from that brown leather chair over yonder. I need to get her some tylonal for her fever and hope that doesn't come back up. Sigh.

growing crystals

After a school field trip to the Rice Rock and Mineral Museum, Josiah decided to try his hand at growing crytals. Mom helped, of course. She purchased a $25 crystal growing kit for $10 off the Freddy toy clearance shelves, boiled water, and transfered the hot solutions to their crystal growing containers. Then we watched and waited for several days.

Kenya

So, um, I think I'm going to Kenya in July for a couple weeks. Because, well, I've been working on the designs for Visible Grace Academy for several years and they finally have the money to break ground this year. So I kind of need to do this.

Also, I'm sure it will be a great opportunity to take pictures and they will look good on my blog. :O)

I'm going to need:

$2000 for a plane trip
child care help

Who's in?