February

100 Days of School

Hyrum was excited to be a 100 year old man, "just like Grandpa".  He searched all over the house, in every toy box and junk drawer, digging around under beds, until he finally found an old pair of glasses.  Then he insisted that he have a beard and mustache and picked out the most grandpa looking shirt he had.  It still wasn't enough until we folded up a hand towel and stuffed it up his shirt. What a cute little old man!


Evil Minion

Instead of doing a written book report that the teacher would have to read, Justin's class was each given a ceiling tile from the classroom and told to paint it with a character or scene from a book or movie.  During the bus ride home a corner of the tile broke off, which gave Justin the idea to paint a purple minion on it and to blame the missing corner on the minion.  In the three days that it sat on the counter another corner happened to break off but this time the piece was not lost.  Perfect!  Now he could show proof of the evil thing eating away the corners.

Bret and Justin drew it on in pencil and then Erika and Justin painted it.  All the grooves in the tile proved to be quite a border headache for those two OCD kids but they figured out how to make it work and the Evil Tile Eating Minion earned him an A.


Speaking of Erika . . .

She is so pretty!
She has been promoted to team leader at Melaleuca and is working full time.
This means that nearly every day she dresses up and WEARS SHOES!


Duck Date

Nathan decided that for our date he wanted to go feed the ducks.  He was concerned for the ducks that weren't with the main group so went around them until he could find the ones down the bank and called up the ones from the water.  He wanted to make sure every one of them were fed.  A loaf of cheap bread doesn't go very far with this crowd and soon we had to take off before a greedy fat goose ate his fingers.


Cat Cuddles

We are a pet free home....90% of the time.  Every once in a while someone can't stand to stick them back out in the cold weather and we give in to our pet loving side for a few purring snuggles.  Usually, it's Hyrum, Justin or I that give in but this time it was Levi.  He's never been overly fond of Harrison but ever since the fatty was banned to the outdoors he's had a soft spot for him.  Harrison must have noticed this because when I walked toward him to put him out he pounced up on Levi and cuddled in for protection.  Levi gave him a a good neck rub and then ignored him but Harrison didn't leave.  He tries so hard to play invisible and not get eye contact when he's in the house.