Catch Up

There's nothing much going on around here... mainly b/c I keep forgetting to do stuff! Last Thursday, I totally forgot to take Adam to his piano lesson. Nothing happened to make me forget, I just didn't go and didn't realize we were supposed to be there until after it started. Yesterday, I forgot to take the boys to band. Jeff was home for MLK Day, so it wasn't an ordinary Monday. I'll use that excuse. Co-op and skating were cancelled today b/c of slick roads, totally not my fault!

We were in Dayton, OH this past weekend to celebrate my birthday with my twin sister. Isn't she pretty? We're identical twins. While we were there, we visited the Boonshoft Museum of Discovery. It's quite an amazing place! Our evening was hosted by SAE, an engineering group, and my BIL who is a member. We started with free pizza, pop, and cookies, and then headed for a planetarium show about Mars. I coerced everybody into that one b/c it fits well with our Astronomy curriculum! The show was very cool and we learned how to find Mars in the night sky. Later, we climbed to the top of their three story playground, looked out the skylight and found Mars with no problems. I tried to find it several times in December and was never successful. After the planetarium show, we explored all the fun stuff a children's science museum has to offer.

Adam is getting ready to launch the glider he built. This activity was hosted by the SAE Foundation and they gave me enough materials to recreate it for my co-op building art class! If you have a classroom, you can request a free kit at www.awim.org. Ryan's glider crash landed on it's maiden flight.

That's Evan's head in the bubble. He's underneath a display of native Ohio animals. Matthew sitting with my niece in the planetarium. This is before the show started. As soon as it went black, he started freaking out and my sister took him out to play in the toddler area.