field trip to Chuck E. Cheese's

Yesterday, I went to Chuck E. Cheese's and had a lot of fun for many hours. And I met a little boy named Colton. I went on the big kids' roller coaster ride (virtual), and we took almost every adventure offered. We laid down on these two yellow chairs, and hung onto the handles. We chose which adventure to go on, and then we hung on. The screen showed a roller coaster, and the seats jiggled different ways, and moved side to side. And it was fun, but sort of scary in the fright night and the haunted mine. I liked the toyland one best. I went up in the tubes with Colton, and had a lot of fun. Colton shared his tokens and tickets with me.

--heart fairy

we all scream for ice cream

Here's Kaleigh, in her cuisinart ice cream maker hat, to which she attached a leaf clip (from Hawaii!). Kaleigh's been wearing this hat a lot. Our ice cream maker is our one pointless consumer splurge from our tax refund. Actually, it's not quite pointless, but I have been getting out of the habit of buying things with cords attached.

The ice cream maker is quite useful, naturally! Kaleigh is lactose-intolerant, and also cannot handle sugar. Where else can you find dairy-free, sugar-free, chemical-free ice cream? Nowhere that I have found. So we make our own. This is based on Aunt Marie's recipe. We start with a base of coconut milk, and a dropperful of stevia, and go from there. You can add fruit (berries, bananas, etc.), or chocolate, or probably a lot of things we haven't tried yet. You can add tofu also, to thicken it and add some protein. Blend it all in the food processor until smooth, then put it into the ice cream maker to harden. The only problem we have is that it gets awfully hard in the freezer, so hard we can't scoop it. We have solved that problem by letting it freeze, then placing it in the very coldest spot in our refrigerator, which seems to keep it somewhat firm, at least for a few days. Kaleigh really likes the ice cream, and has been eating it with cones.

We have also been using the ice cream maker to make sugary creamy ice cream for ourselves. It is a treat! Since our food stamps increased, we can afford to buy things like cream, that we wouldn't normally eat. But I am enjoying myself after a winter of beans and bread.

all in a day's work

This is not a real accident victim; he only plays one at work. Don had a long afternoon at work, bruised up beyond belief, in his time as a simulated patient. Yuck. His face was apparently this bad as well, before he hurriedly wiped it off to run to catch the last bus. It would have been interesting had he not wiped it off. I wonder what people on the bus would have thought!

--sharqi

this was an exciting day

I made these horse heads out of plaster of Paris, and I haven't gotten to painting them yet, even today that's maybe even a week after I made them. And the horse heads even have reins that show. You might be able to see them in the picture, but I don't know. There were little molds that came in a kit, so I put the mixture of water and plaster of Paris in the molds, and it took overnight for them to dry. And someday I will get to painting them.

I experimented with making molds out of egg cartons. I put the plaster of Paris mix in the egg carton molds, and popped them out and now they are paperweights. And sometime I will paint them.

Here I am opening a box from Rainbow Resource Center, full of homeschooling surprises. And mommy made a game for me so I can open one of them every morning, because she wrapped them as presents. We made a game out of it. On each present is an answer. To find the question, I pull a piece of paper out of a box that has a question on it in French, like "Ou est le salon?" I got to the living room, and take down the sign that says le salon, and on the back is a question. Today's question was, what is 100 minus 90? Using my abacus, I figured out that it was 10, instead of 80 like I thought. I opened the present that had the number 10 on it, and it was a solar experiment kit. My favorite things I've gotten from the box are the abacus, the electronics experiment kit, and my calendar book.

Here I am with Daddy, doing a flip off mommy and daddy's bed, onto the floor, with Daddy, as you can see in the picture. This is a gymnastics show. I do a somersault on my bed, then get up with my feet against the wall and do another somersault sideways onto the floor. Then Daddy lifts me up with his legs and flips me over into a supported backbend, and gently sets me on the floor. Ta-da! Mommy can't watch because it scares her.

--heart fairy

cat in pony house

That cat in my pony house is Snapper. I have another cat that looks just like him, but he wasn't around right then. So, you can't see him in the picture. My other cat that looks just like Snapper, his name is Cozy. And the kitties, both of them, like to go into boxes and crawl out of them.

--heart fairy

pony castle made out of blocks

The pink and blue spots are Pinky Pie and Rainstar, my ponies. They are standing in the pony castle made out of maple blocks. They were Daddy's blocks when he was little. I made the castle with Tio and Daddy. We used ALL of the blocks. And Pinky Pie, the pink one, is my biggest My Little Pony. She has long fixable hair, and counting her, I have 11 My Little Ponies.

--heart fairy

pony house

This is a pony house that we made and guess how it is made! It's collaged! And how did we do it? We cut out pictures from seed catalogs and glued them onto a box. We cut out windows and a door from the box to make a pony house, as you can see in the picture. Hooray mod podge!

--heart fairy