Science Fair

The kids participated in the optional Science Fair at school this year. Garrick dropped eggs in a tupperwear container surrounded buy soft or hard stuff, to see which would protect the egg or not. Aleksia soaked 4 different kinds of beans (100 each) in 1 cup of water, then found out which kind soaked up the most water.

These two should have been at the end, so pretend! For participating, they each got a medal! Which they obviously like, because they wear it around the house like jewelry!

Closer view of the medal

Garrick dropping one of the eggs. I think this was his favorite part!

Nope, not protected in the beans

Nope, not in the rice either!

Aleksia's pics are mainly on another memory card, but here's some of her beans that soaked for 19 hours.

The kidney beans were the winner, at 1.25 oz of water soaked up by 100 beans. She thought the garbanzo beans would win.

Garrick by his finished poster

And Aleksia by hers

Bows, bows, and more bows!

These floral hair bows are ALL OVER the blogging world right now. Super cute, and looks super easy! I want to have a bow making party sometime soon with some girl friends (where everyone brings a stem of flowers, then we all share and make super cute bows!), but needed to make some for a baby shower coming up soon. So we decided to try it out. WOW! Aleksia really got into it, and we ended up making 0ver 25 bows just for her! Plus some for a co worker's girls, and some for the baby.

Here is Aleksia creating some combos. She had to be redirected a little, "No honey, a pink flower doesn't go with a blue and yellow button."

Well then Garrick came home and wanted to get in on the action. At first he said he'd make some for the girls in his class, but then with some redirection from Mom, ended up just making one for his teacher. Although he had a ball too, and wanted to keep going. Luckily it was time to put it all away and start on dinner!

Here are some of the finished product!

Here are the baby ones. There is a ribbon around the elastic headband, so the flowers will just clip on to it, and then they are interchangeable for her cute little bald head!

So yesterday I showed them to my Activity Day Girls, to see if it's something they would want to do as an activity in the future. They LOVED them! And then put a bunch in Cassiah's hair! She tolerated it so well, and just LOVES all the attention that they give her!

Hooray!

We have been working on a gate for the stairs for quite a while now, and we finally got it up!!!

Here is Than finding studs to secure it right.

Tada! It hinges, and swings open from the wall. And is held in place by a very high tech bungee cord! Hey it works! Now I'm not paranoid of Cassiah falling down the stairs and ending up on the cement at the bottom!

A view from the stairs of our little jail bird! She thinks it's funny to chuck her toys down and watch as they bounce down all the steps!

Happy St Patricks Day!

Aleksia's "homework" for this week was to build a leprechaun trap. So here is what we came up with!

Her favorite part was stamping clovers on the paper with a potato! She thought a potato stamp was pretty cool! So the leprechaun climbs the straw/toothpick ladder, and as he walks towards the money, falls in! Because the top of the box is open! Here she is posing (sorry, didn't have the red eye on, and haven't fixed it in Photo Shop) with it before bed!

The leprechaun fell through!

But he escaped with the money! Luckily he was a nice leprechaun and left some decorations and some green goodies for the kids (shampoo to share, notebook, pencil, gum, and Andes mints)

And also left a fun clover "thing" for the kids to walk through as they came down the stairs from their bedrooms!

Aleksia was excited about the "nice leprechaun" that left us stuff.

Garrick and Trestin checking out their stuff. Garrick asked, "Why didn't he trash our house and turn stuff upside down like in our class room last year at school?" I told him be cause this was a nicer leprechaun, and also since we baited the trap with money, he then thought he'd give us a nice "treat" in return for taking the money!" They bought my story!

Made green clover pancakes for breakfast!

Cassiah wasn't too excited about her pancake. She shredded it, and chucked it all on the floor! So she ate 1 1/2 sausage patties instead! She is SUCH a meat eater! Our little carnivore!

What we've been doin'

Even though he's not in grad school anymore, we went to one last Graduate Student Free Activity, BOWLING! It was fun, and the kids again beat me! Although by not as much this time! My excuse last time was that I was 37 weeks pregnant! No excuse this time!

Than bowling

Helping T line up his ball

Little Miss Twirlly! See her hair flying!


Crazy boys!



Final scores

Over the holiday weekend in January, Nathan (bro-in-law) came up with his 2 girls and went fishing. Saturday was just the "men," then on Monday they all went ice fishing with Than and Garrick. He was very excited, because he's wanted to go for a long time but Than always told him, "When you're 7!" Well he's 7 now! Then after they went sledding, so they had a good time!

Here they are eating breakfast as the "men" where fishing on Saturday.

Playing Mario Kart. Cassiah wanted a turn too!

Trestin loves his cousin Aubrey! He was her little shadow. She had alot of patience with him, and ended up having a soft spot for him!

Emmaleena handed down alot of her old clothes to us, and Aleksia wore one of her old dresses to church. Here they are modeling their church attire!

Trestin trying out his resistance band that came with my replacement mat I had to buy because I lost my old one in the move! So as I do my Winsor Pilates with my resistance band, he has one now too, and is very excited about it!

Aleksia's Open House for dance! They where dancing to "Spoon Full Of Sugar"

Ear infection! We've been lucky! This is his 2nd at the age of 3, and the only other one was Garrick, and it wasn't a full blown one, just an almost one with some fluid accumulating, but didn't get infected.

Gifts I've made for the kids in Garrick's church class that turned 8. Then they can hang them on the wall. Using my Silhouette for the vinyl, I love my new toy!!! I just got my order of white and black vinyl, 10 yards of each!!! Happy Valentines Day to me!!! Now I just need more time to play!

Valentines Cards

So this picture doesn't make sense, but if you go here; http://kari-youcanmakeit.blogspot.com/2010/01/photo-pops-vday-idea-genius.html it will. I "decorated" mine, but it's the same general idea.

This is what Garrick wanted to do for his class Valentines. Believe it or not, it's the best smile out of the bunch that we took!

So even though Aleksia was doing the melted crayon "you color my world" that Garrick did last year, she wanted a sucker Valentine too. So we did a couple for her too!

So around Christmas was CRAZY, and I didn't get out any cards this past year. So now that it's mellower, I decided to send out Valentine cards to make up the difference! So some of you will be getting one in the mail if I have your address! So be watchin'....