Last picture

Here is one picture that I forgot to post on my living room post. This is the last wall that got done. It took me forever to find something for either side of the picture. I have never taken so many things back in my life! Throughout this whole process, I think I have taken back things at least a dozen times. I have one little spot beside my front door that I need to touch up the paint and then IT IS ALL DONE! Everyone is welcome to come see it!

MY LIVING ROOM IS DONE!

AWANA Olympics

Yesterday was such a long day! We left the house before 8 am and didn't get back til almost 8pm. C's Sparky Olympics was in the morning and then Daddy coached the TNT boys in the afternoon. After all was done we went out to eat (horrible, no-good, very bad service). So it was a very long day.

But! C's team won 1st! Yeah! And! Daddy's team won 2nd!

K was the official photographer today. So we have many of these pictures:

*blurry

*the back friend's heads

*other kids books

*feet

*a very blurry Daddy ref-ing (he got pulled into it at the last minute)

*etc

Rogaine anyone?

It must never get back to C that I told you this story, OK? Please keep it between us. We told him it was "over" and he needs to think it is. (Am I such a bad mom or what?)

So we were at the State Museum the other day. I had taken K to the potty. When I got back, Daddy said "Did you see his (meaning C's) hair?" No I hadn't noticed anything. Then I looked closely at the front of C's head.

Notice the little bald spot right in the front of his head? Daddy asked him what happened. "I don't know. I think it must have just fallen out." Really? That's the best you can do? He is so not a good liar. We asked him off and on for about 4 hours and he kept giving us the same answer. Seriously? He thinks we'd fall for that?

Later that night he had AWANA Olympics practice and Daddy had practice after that. During Daddy's practice he finally admitted what happened. But by this time it was way too late!

Here is his story. He had a craft that day in school. He was sitting at his desk, with his scissors on his fingers and his chin in his hand. Let's start with "not the smartest position to be sitting with scissors." Then let's move on to "how did that cut the top of your hair?" His answer "I must have moved my hand down to cut and closed the scissors as I crossed the top of my head." Hmmmm. A little bit of logic in there. It could have happened. That's the most we got out of him. If that's the truth, "just come tell us when it happened!" He would have gotten a stern lecture about how to handle scissors but not the severe punishment that he ended up with.

Once we all got home from practice, Daddy applied the stick of punishment to the seat of learning. Plus he gets no video games of any kind for at least 6 weeks (this can get longer depending on LIFE between now and then) plus he cannot do his art projects for school for that long. They will all pile up and he will have to take one day to do them all.

He has had issues with scissors before. And he is my somewhat responsible child. What am I in for with the other child? Lord help me! ABSOLUTELY NO ART PROJECTS FOR HER WITHOUT AN ADULT PRESENT.

Indiana State Museum

Currently there is an Abraham Lincoln display at the Indiana State Museum. Since Lincoln is Daddy's favorite president and thus C's favorite president, we decided to go check out the display.

The museum is really nice but a little over my kids heads. The Lincoln display was awesome, but again, over my kids heads. There were actually 2 displays. One was artifacts from the Library of Congress and the other display had artifacts from the Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection. No photography was allowed in either display. So I have nothing to show except some programs.

However, throughout the rest of the museum (where photography was allowed) they had "hidden" different busts of Lincoln for a sort of treasure hunt. That was kinda fun to look for those. We found 6 and I think there were more.

My pictures start with the rest of the museum. There were a lot of interesting displays. There was a nice huge section on Indiana state history. When C has to do his state notebook I think we will come back to get some information. The last few pictures show some of the Lincoln's that we found.

This was inside the "atrium" of the museum. Daddy actually video taped a wedding here.

That's one big turtle shell!

They had a few rooms with "stuffed" animals of all kinds. I think mostly animals or birds or fish that live or lived in Indiana.

Like the "do not touch" sign?

Thought this was some interesting information. Your useless information for the day.

Isn't that blue one pretty?

The kids got to go "fishing."

These were some toys from certain time periods. C liked the Star Wars ones.

I remember some of these! And K liked the Strawberry Shortcake stuff.

This was actually how tall Lincoln was.

Hiding among the birds.

In the room of Indiana celebrities. He actually lived in Indiana for a time so he deserves to be there.

In a type of cabinet that he might have had in his house.

Kinda a funny place to hide--in with the dinosaur bones.

Appropriate. In the outdoors.

This was beside the elevators to get back to the parking garage.

Even though it was a little advanced for my kids, I think they had fun. Daddy was able to take a half day off work and come with us. He really enjoyed it too. I'm really glad we went but I'll wait til they are much older to go back to that museum.

One really nice side note: I got in free since I'm a teacher!

PS: notice the bald spot in the front of C's head? Check back tomorrow for the story on that one.