Where to start...
How about a picture or two from Hannah's birthday. [Hannah, by the way, has recovered fully and is alive and causing much trouble for her siblings and parents!] Grandma and Grandpa came out to help celebrate and brought a yummy ice-cream cake. And a Pixel Chicks game-type thing for Hannah.
Next - Valentines day. My mom knows how much we love pancakes in this house. So when she saw this pancake shape set she knew she had to get it for us. And when I saw it I knew it would be perfect for a valentines Day Breakfast. And it was. I dyed the batter and the whipped cream pink and we cut up strawberries and drank pink lemonade. Mmmm, now I want pancakes.
The randomness continues
One evening last month I was out. Which left Peter in charge. The next morning as I was getting the kids ready I noticed that Ethan looked a little - strange, well stranger than usual! Upon closer inspection I discovered he had cut a huge chunk out of the front of his hair. So I whisked him upstairs to buzz the rest of his hair to match. Unfortunately my clippers are painfully dull and I only succeeded in pulling out about 4 hairs. So I trimmed the front of his hair up (and he looked ridiculous!) and sent him off to school. That weekend Peter took him to get it fixed and Ethan received what he fondly refers to as his 'fuzzy hair' cut. I must point out that this is at least the 3rd time he has butchered his hair, not to mention the time he cut Mary's. Sigh, when will he learn?
This next group of pictures is from a game I remember playing in Family Home Evening when I was about 8 or 9. It's called The Dime in the Flour. You take a cup and place a dime in the bottom and fill the cup with flour. Then upend it on a plate and take turns cutting slices of the flour tower with a butter knife. The first to crumble the tower has to retrieve the dime - with their TEETH! (And mom usually hovers in the background to make sure they really get good and flour-y!) The kids were all good sports except for Mary. She wanted NO part in this game. But I'll include a picture of her anyway, cause she's so durn cute!
And lastly (is that a word?)...
Last week the kids had Trickster Theater come to their school. (Here is link to their home page that explains what they do and shows some pictures from other schools and such. http://www.trickstertheatre.com/index.html ) It was a really amazing show and the kids had a lot of fun preparing and acting out their stories and plays.
Basically they started the week with nothing. And at the end of five days each class in the school put on a 3 minute play about a specific book or books. Each class has a specific prop they all used - one class had plastic shovels, another pool noodles and another large Rubbermaid totes. Except Ethan's class who did the 'Audience Interaction' where they had 4 dads from the audience be a part of their 'play'. Again I will say how amazing and cool it was. An awesome opportunity for the kids. I will also say that there was a lot of work for the parent volunteers. I was out of the classroom that week to help with Trickster preparations - and there were a lot. But it was so worth it. Have I said yet how great I thought it was?!
Megan's grade 4 class did a black light show, and I couldn't get any pictures of that cause, well they said not to, it would interfere with the show and the pictures wouldn't turn out any way! but I loved it and thought her class did a fantastic job.
These are a few pictures from the show, not all of them are my kids classes.
Ethan's class doing the Audience Participation. The picture below is the kids going through the 'garage' to get their 'motorcycles' which they then 'rode'. So cute.
This was Mary's class. They did a skit about a crocodile who disguised himself and ate children. Their prop was a goal net that we turned into a crocodile. Even the principal of the school Mr. Murphy got involved in some of the plays. Here he is telling the crocodile "it's not polite to eat children and we don't act like that in this school".
Here is Hannah in her debut. Her class did a skit based on the book "the 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins" by Dr Seuss. Her line was something to the effect of "Take him to the nurse and have her cut off his head...erm, I mean hat"
This is a random class, the one who (obviously) used the Rubbermaid totes. They did a skit based on Willy Wonka and the Oompa Loompas and used the totes to build a castle and chocolate river and ...well you get the idea!
This class also did a Dr Seuss book "The Lorax". They used their pool noodles to become trees and used other noodles to be chainsaws that cut down trees and other cool things I can no longer remember.In case you can't tell from my enthusiasm I loved every minute of Trickster. And being involved in it from the beginning right to the end helped me appreciate it that much more.
And that folks is all I have to blog about for this past month. I don't know about you, but if you stayed with me this long you probably need a nap like me!
