Still Seussing It

SEUSSY: While the kids were in music class this morning, I was raiding the school library for Dr. Seuss titles.Fortuitously, I found lots. I then spent the next 45 minutes having fun with edible ink markers and marshmallows, using the books for inspiration. (The idea for Seuss-themed marshmallows came from The Decorated Cookie.)

Represented from left to right are "How The Grinch Stole Christmas," "Yertle the Turtle," "The Cat in the Hat," "Green Eggs and Ham," "Oh the Places You'll Go," "The Lorax," "One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish," "If I Ran the Zoo," and "Horton Hears a Who."

The kids were pretty surprised when they got out of class. :)

On the way home from music, they started reading down the Seuss stack.

We had to stop at Lowe's on the way home to return an item and the kids each brought a Seuss book in the store with them. It was amazing - those books were like blinking beacons. Of the three people we encountered from the front door to the return desk, all three stopped to remark on the books - and the fact they were happy to see the kids reading them. Dr. Seuss certainly left a legacy.

OPEN WIDE: The kids had to miss LEGO class this afternoon. They had a date with the dentist.

Unlike certain other people who shall remain nameless (me) who hate going to the dentist, CJ and Annabelle think it's Big Fun!

Actually, if I could be a patient at Lakeview Kids Dentistry, I'd probably feel like they do. The facility is cool  (so many nifty high tech things!), the staff is awesome and the patients get prizes when they're done. What's not to like?

Traffic was on our side and we were a few minutes early, so we stopped at funtabulous Powell Barnett Park on the way to the dentist.

They have the greatest climbing structure there. CJ climbed it to the top last year, but today he got about 3/4 of the way up and he just wasn't feelin' it. I told him not to sweat it, he'd get it next time.

THERE IS ANOTHER: On Monday, we took delivery of a 'new' laptop computer. It's actually a refurbished Dell that we rather spontaneously purchased (for $199) as a deal of the day special on one of those deal of the day Web sites. So now, CJ and Annabelle can sit side by side and cooperatively work and play instead of yelling back and forth between rooms. And, when we travel, they don't have to jockey for dibs on "just" one laptop.

Funny story: The name of the company whom we purchased it from is Blair Technology Group. When Christian was ordering it online, there was a box for "special instructions" along with the order. He whimsically wrote, "Draw a dinosaur on the box, please."

Well guess what? When the box arrived, it had this on the side ...

Nice touch, BTG. Of course box loving Annabelle was especially thrilled and she instantly set about embellishing it, creating a habitat for the dino. I'm guessing it's of the laptoposaurus species.