Friday night they covered themselves in fondant and blended in with some "My Little Pony" cookies the kids made. Saturday night, they settled in for a classic movie, "King Kong vs. Godzilla." Not surprisingly, they were rooting for the big reptile.
MLP MARATHON: As I noted in last Friday's post, Saturday morning brought the season premiere of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic on The Hub. The new episode aired at 7 a.m., but a marathon of the first three seasons of the show started at 3 a.m. The kids both said they wanted to get up and watch it, and so I awoke them at the appointed hour.
And then I went back to bed.
I could hear them conversing off and on for the next four hours, though. I think CJ stayed awake for for the whole darn thing, and Annabelle was awake for most of it.
Friday afternoon we spent hours and hours and hours making MLP cookies for the big day.
SCRUBBED: We forgot to tune in this afternoon for a SpaceX launch, the first Falcon 9 GEO transfer mission. The rocket is set to deliver the SES-8 satellite into a geosynchronous transfer orbit 80,000 kilometers from Earth, or about 1/4 of the way to the moon, a SpaceX tweet pointed out today.
As 'luck' would have it, turns out we didn't miss a thing by not tuning in today. Too many anomalies, so the launch was a no-go. They're going to try again on Thursday, with the launch window opening at 5:38 p.m. Eastern time.
Guess today's scrub just screwed up a bunch of people's Thanksgiving plans, eh?
SCHOOLY STUFF: We worked on math (estimating in the millions), social studies (learning about the Eastern and Western Blocs during the Cold War days, and the kids both practiced guitar for a good long while today.
They also spent a fair amount of time reading The Oatmeal, which they love.
There was a lot of LOLing going on, including when they were reading "How a Web Design Goes Straight to Hell." http://theoatmeal.com/comics/design_hell
Oh, and last night Annabelle finished "The Phantom Tollbooth," which she enjoyed very much. Christian loved the book as a kid. As popular as it was/is, it's hard to believe I've never read it.
We're going to have to track down a copy of the 1970 movie of the same title. Per Wikipedia, it has a 100 percent approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes. I don't think I've ever seen a movie with a perfect rating before. The movie is a blend of live action and animation, it was produced by Chuck Jones, the guy whose name is on the beloved Bugs Bunny cartoons of my childhood.
Never heard of "The Phantom Tollbooth" either.
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