Lydia turns 1!

 

Silent Night

A little behind on posting things. This video was taken a few weeks ago (when it was still Christmas). Here's Noah, age 2, singing "Silent Night".

Christmas 2007

Here it is: the annual Christmas Pose.

Star Cookie Christmas Tree

The chef poses next to his latest creation. (He had a little help.)

In the leaves

costumes - cheap & easy

Isaac was a road, Noah was a stop-light.

Total cost: $1.

Apple tasting

As part of a home school project, we got one of each kind of apple available at SuperTarget as a chance to notice the many differences. They turned out to have about a dozen different kinds of apples.

In case you haven't heard...

Looks who's joining our family in April! :)

9/11 at Lake Harriet

Even though we didn't play this year, the five of us went to the Lake Harriet band shell to attend the 9/11 tribute concert. At one point, Isaac joined a parade of kids which was lead by children rescued from the bus on the colapsed 35W bridge several weeks ago.

Camp Snoopy becoming Camp Sponge Bob

Not long after we heard Camp Snoopy wasn't going to be camp Snoopy anymore, we wondered what/if it would become. (http://erikdebmn.blogspot.com/2006/01/goodbye-snoopy.html Here's a post from a visit to the mall days before the Peanuts characters started to disappear.) Since that day, we've been joking about it turning into Camp Sponge Bob. Well guess what? We went there today (to celebrate 'first-day-of-school-for-everybody-else-since-we-home-school' day). And found this:

In the center of the world's largest(?) indoor amusement park used to be a large water fountain with Peanuts characters all over it. It danced to music and had water canon games you could play. This is what it looked like today.

Hmm, I wonder what they're going to put in here instead. Then I saw it:

A silhouette of Sponge Bob on the side of the wall blocking this area off. Now to anyone who's into Sponge Bob, I'm sorry. We've been discouraging TV watching lately, plus the little bit I've seen of Nickelodeon in recent years has been anti-parents, kids do whatever you want, don't worry about respecting others, as long as it's silly and makes you want to laugh and want to buy stuff. A far cry from the two-dimentional and slow moving, but respectful and thoughtful, world of Peanuts.

Due to my disappointment over this, it is likely this will greatly reduce our number of trips down to the 'mega-mall.'