Bedtime conversation with Oliver tonight:
“Did you know that Spinosauruses are real?”
“Um, maybe…”
“Well, they were. And they were really big. Do you know how big?”
“No… really big?”
“Yes. They were huge. They were 100 times bigger than a teacher!“
After reading a bedtime book about the Mars rover, Sarah asked Oliver if he would ever want to be an astronaut:
Oliver: No! No. No. Not even one tiny teeny bit.
Sarah: Oh. That sounds like a pretty strong “no.” Why not?
Oliver numbers his reasons:
One of Griffin’s birthday presents was a sushi-making kit. The crowd was unanimous: we must make sushi immediately. Andrew went out to pick up some fresh salmon and tuna while the rest of the family made the rice and prepped the vegetables. The results were delicious!
Happy birthday, Griffin!
As a bit of an April Fools day meteorological joke, we were hit with a fairly severe blizzard overnight. With 8.5 inches of snow at the airport, this puts us at the third snowiest winter since records began in 1971. And this wasn’t just a blizzard, it was a thunder blizzard. Lightning and thunder accompanied the billowing snow in the evening. Our power went out for an hour or so in the night, but was miraculously back on before sunrise.
For more details, check out this morning’s post on the Updraft Blog (MPR’s weather site).
Oliver’s wonderful Kindergarten teacher, Molly, sent us this picture and quote. The “bead bars” represent numbers (by the number of color-coded beads on each bar) and can be used to explore a lot of mathematical operations (including addition and multiplication). It’s amazing to see how these manipulatives give kids real confidence around number manipulation. Oliver regularly stops me from solving math problems so that he can do them himself.
Oliver wearing his great grandfather Louis’ hat.
I’m loving the stage of life where a “party” is a bunch of fellow nerds getting together to paint miniatures with fine conversation and beverages.
A big winter storm came through this week. Two more days off from school. (First day was a false-positive… we could have easily made it to school, but it had already been called.) Today (the second day), seems much more justified.
Actually, this is just for Andrew and Griffin’s school (SPA). Maggie and Oliver got three days off!
Griffin and I spent some quality time in front of the mirror this morning practicing shaving. We made it with no nicks or lost body parts.
