Party Central

CUT AND STUFF: We started our day by carving into a papier mâché-d (is that a word?) pinata so we could fill it with with the fabulous Dollar Store treats we scored last night. Annabelle helped sort the items by size, so we could stuff them in the appropriate pinata parts (head, body or legs).

By Thursday, this pinata, a gift for a neighbor, will be making a long trek to Burning Man, the multi-day dance party in a Nevada desert. Given its destination, we filled it with sunscreen, lip balm, fluorescent foam visors, glow sticks, Pop Rocks type candy, single serving powdered drink mixes (to add to water), candy bracelets and necklaces, beaded necklaces, and, of course, some airplane size mini bottles of alcohol. It's going with a big flat bed truck that's covered in LEGO-like bricks, so we made it in the shape of a LEGO man. We base coated it today and will paint it off tomorrow, just in time for its southward trek.WORD OF THE DAY: After her ballet lesson today, Annabelle reported that she'd learned a new word/move - arabesque. She described it in the car and demonstrated it when we got home. I sure am bummed that her ballet teacher is retiring. She has just one lesson left with her. :(

SWEET VICTORY, YEAH!: On his lunch break today, Christian ripped down to Fry's in Renton and picked up what he believed to be the proper capacitors for the Sega Game Gear he and CJ are trying to resurrect. Tonight, after dinner, he and CJ got back to their task. They made short work of it. Within 15 minutes they were ready to give it a go. And ...Yes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It went from black screen to full living color!

CJ proceeded to play a series of games - many of them for the first time. So cool that they got the thing working again - for just a couple of dollars (capacitors are cheap!).

STACKS & STACKS OF LETTERS: Also in the home ec/craft hopper is our ongoing KENNEDY STOP READING HERE.........................................................................................................................

OK, he's gone, I hope.

We're making a Scrabble cake for Ken's bday.

Today, we made letters. Lots and lots of letter tiles. And we put those tiles on the edible Scrabble board we're still working on.
Hopefully it will be done tomorrow. In fact, it BETTER be, since that's Ken's bday and all!

DON'T WE WISH?: I keep forgetting to post that the other morning CJ woke up a few minutes before 6 a.m. and announced, "Wow. I feel like I've been asleep for two days!"

Must be nice.

In an email, I reported CJ's quote to Christian, who leaves for work about 5:45 a.m., and he replied, "Wow. I feel like I've been asleep for two hours!"