This, that and everything else in between: 05/01/2010

Wednesday, May 19, 2010

Photography by Emily

This past Christmas Emily got a Fisher Price Digital Camera. She LOVES taking pictures.

Every once in a while, when I'm checking pictures on my camera, I'll find a bunch of Emily pictures and I laugh and laugh. It's never one or two shots, but dozens! She takes after her Mommy in that respect.

Here's what I found last night...

Sunday, May 16, 2010

UPDATE: School Projects

This is what Michael looked like while I worked out what his Boa Constrictor/Rainforest vest was going to look like.

Once Michael came to life I put him to work on the vest.

I think the finished product is pretty darn cool!

School Projects

I remember, when I was a kid, feeling tortured by the projects I was assigned in school. To me, it seemed as though I always had a diorama, book report, science project or posterboard project due, but it was probably no more than two or three projects throughout the year. I also remember BEGGING my mother for more help (read: DO THIS FOR ME!)

I regularly kid my mother about my seventh grade autobiography...if I wrote ONE SENTENCE in that masterpiece, it was a lot! My mother, however, gives me full credit for it. That's the one school project I have no problem admitting that I had little to no participation in.

Now that I'm a mother, as I reflect back to those torturous days, I probably did the least amount of work on those projects while my mother did the bulk of it. That is certainly the case with my own kids.

As I sit here typing this "confession", I am also trying to work-out in my head how "we" are going to depict a rainforest (the natural habitat of a boa constrictor) on a vest made out of a Shop Rite brown paper bag. My co-creator, Michael, isn't even home from his Boy Scout camp-out yet.

WE have written succesful reports on dinosaurs, Juliette Lowe and Judy Moody to name a few. WE'VE made paper likenesses of the kids, recreated scenes, on a grand scale, of dinosaurs from the Triassic era, made kites, decorated umbrellas, created collections of 100 items for the 100th day of school and made instruments out of household items. I'm sure there's much more but my Momnesia is acting up.

Years from now when my kids say I never helped them with their school projects, I'll have this blog to show to them and then they'll remember...just like I did.