On the way home, the kids did some swinging. I tried to take a photo using a new camera app I downloaded, and was surprised to hear the "shutter" clicking repeatedly. For whatever reason, it unexpectedly did some sequencing thing. ... I suppose it could be pretty cool if a) I knew it was going to do it and b) I could figure out how to do it again. We'll see.
Interesting, in this photo you can definitely tell that CJ was swinging faster/higher at the time, can't you?
CAKETASTROPHIES: This morning the kids fired up the TV with the full intention of getting right to some excersize via Just Dance 2014 for XBox, a Bee birthday gift from Aunt Renee. However, before they could switch the input from cable TV to the XBox, their eyes feel upon a Food Network Challenge show featuring cakes. Specifically, "Dora the Explorer" inspired cakes, to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the television show of the same name.
The kids have logged hundreds of hours watching Dora and messing with cakes and fondant, so they were exceptionally intrigued. Naturally, we had to watch the whole episode.
Spoiler alert - it's one thing to build enormous cakes. It's another to have to move them to the judging table. Let's just say that one Dora was MUCH worse for the wear. It went spectacularly wrong, resulting in screams of horror and delight from CJ and Annabelle. Let's just say, the incident brought new meaning to the phrase, "Heads are gonna roll!"
This afternoon, Annabelle found the clip on YouTube. Watch it while you can, before the HGTV honchos find it and remove it!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVvdLeRHQoQ
HOW DOES YOUR GARDEN GROW?Our big, raised bed up at the top of the lot looks like hell right now, but it continues to produce some edible gems. Today, the kids each unearthed a big ol' carrot. CJ was pretty happy with his 'lunker.'
Annabelle thought hers looked more like a radish.
HISTORICAL: The kids continued their "Big History" quest today, watching the third and fourth videos in a 9-part series, and taking the corresponding tests. One of the topics they learned about today were the 'Goldilocks' conditions that made it possible for life to begin on Earth.
CLOUD GAZING: We have a nice view of the wide open-and-sometimes-even-bright-blue sky out our living room window. This afternoon CJ was staring out said window and pointed out, "Hey, if you look at that cloud sideways, it looks like Africa. And that one looks like Turkey."
He spied my cocked head and quizzical look and clarified, "The country, not the bird."
Thanks, CeeJ.
TORCHBEARERS: Programming alert time! Saturday (Nov. 9) morning, at 6 a.m. Pacific Coast time, the Olympic torch is going for a spacewalk. The (unlit) torch will be carried by Russian cosmonauts Oleg Kotov and Sergey Ryazanskiy outside the International Space Station, prior to a scheduled 6-hour maintenance work time.
The torch arrived at the ISS on Thursday, aboard the Soyuz carrying Mikhail Tyurin of Roscosmos, Rick Mastracchio of NASA and Koichi Wakata of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency. It will be brought back down to earth on Sunday, Nov. 10, aboard another Soyuz, which will also bring Fyodor Yurchikhin of Roscosmos, Karen Nyberg of NASA, and Luca Parmitano of the European Space Agency back home.
Watch it all on NASA TV: http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html
This afternoon, Annabelle found the clip on YouTube. Watch it while you can, before the HGTV honchos find it and remove it!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVvdLeRHQoQ
HOW DOES YOUR GARDEN GROW?Our big, raised bed up at the top of the lot looks like hell right now, but it continues to produce some edible gems. Today, the kids each unearthed a big ol' carrot. CJ was pretty happy with his 'lunker.'
CLOUD GAZING: We have a nice view of the wide open-and-sometimes-even-bright-blue sky out our living room window. This afternoon CJ was staring out said window and pointed out, "Hey, if you look at that cloud sideways, it looks like Africa. And that one looks like Turkey."
He spied my cocked head and quizzical look and clarified, "The country, not the bird."
Thanks, CeeJ.
TORCHBEARERS: Programming alert time! Saturday (Nov. 9) morning, at 6 a.m. Pacific Coast time, the Olympic torch is going for a spacewalk. The (unlit) torch will be carried by Russian cosmonauts Oleg Kotov and Sergey Ryazanskiy outside the International Space Station, prior to a scheduled 6-hour maintenance work time.
The torch arrived at the ISS on Thursday, aboard the Soyuz carrying Mikhail Tyurin of Roscosmos, Rick Mastracchio of NASA and Koichi Wakata of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency. It will be brought back down to earth on Sunday, Nov. 10, aboard another Soyuz, which will also bring Fyodor Yurchikhin of Roscosmos, Karen Nyberg of NASA, and Luca Parmitano of the European Space Agency back home.
Watch it all on NASA TV: http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html
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