Ice Cream Social!
Today was the Goddard school Ice Cream Social! Even so, it was tough to get Brian to leave his art camp! He’s having a great time there this week. He even loves the after-care part of it, where he gets to build all sorts of things with some pretty unique blocks and materials, like the battle scene he made today. This morning, he was pretty excited about his Olaf sticker, which matches he gold-colored Ninjago shirt. He made me laugh on the way into camp, as he noticed “a whole...
Read MoreKendall’s Hula
Kendall’s class has been learning about some of the 50 states this summer at school, and this week she’s been learning about Hawaii. She’s been telling me about hula dancing and things like that! So, she has a renewed appreciation for the Baby Beach Band (a toy that our cousin Katie gave Brian almost 7 years ago!) Amazingly, Mister Octopus’s battery still works, and Kendall made great use of it to do her own style of hula dancing (which she calls “hula...
Read MoreArt Museum Camp!
Brian starts his new Ancient Adventures camp at the NC Museum of Art today! He seems excited, and I know we are already loving the convenience of the location, and the full day schedule! Grandmother has been on my mind since her passing, and even though it’s not Christmas (or even Christmas in July!) today I took out and looked at the ornaments she sent me when I got married. One precious walnut basket that Granddaddy made, and a beautiful double-ring crocheted ornament she made for...
Read MoreScanning Day, The Third
Today we were back out at Grandmother’s house to finally wrap up the scanning project. Before heading out, we had a little playtime at home. We’d been watching some SNL Best-Of videos, and Brian had really taken a liking to Dana Carvey’s “Choppin’ Broccoli” bit. Kendall was baking her cookies, while Brian was decorating the piano with play broccoli and recreating the scene his own way! Then, we headed out to Z-town. Brandon and I finished up the...
Read MoreScanning Day, The Second
When processing the results of our scanning day, I had the horrifying realization that the first photos we did that day (which were rather dusty, coated in disintegrating tape, etc.) had done a number on the scanning lens. Nearly all of the following scans had some pretty major flaws, due to dust on the lens. I’m somewhat proficient at fixing up photos, but.. I’m not practically able to do hundreds of edits on hundreds of photos, in any reasonable amount of time. So.. We...
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