Children's Museum

The kids and I went to the Children's Museum again Tuesday. I love having a membership! We can go whenever we want, but Tuesday might not have been the best day to go. I forgot most of the local schools are on spring break. IT WAS PACKED! And to top it all off, there was a special unveiling of an artifact that will be part of a new exhibit that will open next year. There were actually 2 news crews there. We actually met some friends there too. (The youngest blonde boy was actually one of my regular babysitting kids. His mom has since stopped working so I have lost that babysitting job. Oh well.)

This is the first time that we have been able to go outside and see these statues. It seems live every time we have gone, it was rainy or too cold.

The current exhibit there right now is Bob the Builder. Isn't he cute? Daddy's mom is jealous, I'm sure. Rolly, Lofty, Wendy, and many others were there too.

I actually took some other pictures, but I'm sure that by now--most of you could give me a tour of my museum just from looking at all my pictures!

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.