Kaitlin Strikes Again - Chalk Faces

Kaitlin has spend the last week or so actually outside playing with her brothers. She loves them, but hasn't played much with them lately. The weather was gorgeous last week, so we sent them all outside for several hours to play. They were all playing so well together, I thought miracles were happening. I should have know better. I thought Kaitlin had gotten over not having a sister to play dress up with, but she finds ways to make her brothers be "sisters" every once in a while.

They look more like Indians or Avatar beings then girls, thank goodness. At least they had fun, right?

I did a little catch up today, so keep reading for more posts. =>

A Month Later - Easter Fun

I know, I'm late, but better late than never, right? We had a fun Easter, with all of the kids understanding this year what decorating eggs was all about. My baby is 3 and finally realizes what kind of stuff the kids are doing at all these holidays and wants to be in on the fun. After the eggs were dyed, I had some stickers that they could put on. The older kids took their time decorating, and trying different color combinations, but Parker was quick. After his coloring was done, he put on his own stickers. I thought his face choices were quite good, considering he dropped most of his eggs, or smashed them somewhat, and they were mostly cracked.


We survived 3, yes 3, spills of the color, courtesy of Tanner. We even survived taking the eggs a couple of days later and making them into deviled eggs. Each kid yelled like I was killing their children when I wanted to make them into deviled eggs. Fortunately, Kaitlin is old enough to know that it's OK to eat their little ones, and since she loves deviled eggs, she volunteered her "children" for dinner. They were delicious!

Egg Drop

Josh had a project at school to make a contraption that could keep an egg from breaking when dropped from the top of the school. He and his dad spend a couple of days planning and forming, and this was the result:

Those old Nebraska plates came in handy for something, and of course we had to do our own drop from the roof of our house to test it. It was wrapped so well that we didn't dare undo it to see if it worked or not, so Josh took it to school, complete with parachutes, to drop at school. His principal liked the design, and after the drop was complete, he opened it up at school to find that it had survived two falls. Nice job, Josh!!

The Picture Tells it All

Just recently Luke found out that if you tear dandelion stems and put them in water, something happens. This came later: