Once in a Blue Moon

The moon was pretty cool.  I got one shot while we were waiting for the longest light ever on the way home from Lilly's gymnastics.  Can you see the above moon just to the upper left of the traffic light?

The rest are from a moving car.

I saw a moon.

What?  You don't see anything?

Oh, yeah, photography by Lilly.
With a small point and shoot.  As if that mattered, really.

Pieces and Parts

Adlai, like most kids, loves to look at himself after I take his picture.  He was fascinated when we where talking about body parts.  I happened to have the camera in my hand and took a few pictures to show him.  He kept sticking different parts in front of the camera.

Here is what we got (I won't name the parts because I'm pretty sure if you are reading this, you know the parts in the pictures):

Sorry mom, I just noticed that last picture has a bit of runny snot.  Snot, snot, snot.  Giggle.

Here/There/Where are You?

Every other year Lilly's school has a concert.  From what I've heard it would consist of the each class learning a song and dancing to it.  There may have been costumes involved.  But I wasn't there so I don't know how it actually went.

This year we had a parent obtain a grant to put on a special program.  She brought in artists and writers and the kids were given a huge role in making the play.  In the end the kids made lots of puppets and everyone had some sort of part in the play.

What was the story about?  Hmm . . .  aliens.  Exploring Earth.

The downfall of the way they performed.  You couldn't see too many of the kids.

Lilly is in the above picture.  She is on the right behind the screen with her 'butterfly' shadow puppet.

Overall it was very well done.  The whole school community was involved including parents.  Okay, I'm not sure that the office manager was involved.  No, wait a minute, she would have done ticket sales and answering questions from parents.  

What a Sweetie!

 Seth found a cupcake decorating class for me on Living Social.  It's sort of like Groupons I suppose.  I had fun.  And I may have purchased some fun toys to do some decorating.  They sucked me in to that one.  I even knew that was their ploy.  And I still fell for it.

Here are my practice cakes.  I'm not a professional.  Can you believe it?

 

We are a Book Household

Hey, we went to the library.  Again.  This time I took two children.  And got to read 18 words in my own book.  Brilliant.

I Might Be Lazy But I'm Not Sure

You'll have to excuse the lack of posts this month.  I seem to be busy but I'm not sure what I'm doing.  I have been working at the school one day a week but keep getting asked to do extra days which throws me off.  I am volunteering at the school as well helping with ESL students.

So anyway, some cuteness until we do something a little more exciting.

The Best Animal Shots Ever!

Made you look!

Hey, Adlai and I went to the zoo!  Surprise!  We don't do that often or anything.

He discovered a herd of elephants and insisted on sitting on each one.  I was going to get a picture of all of them but each time I stepped away he tried to slide down.  I think he was looking for the one that molded to his bottom the best.  The first one was the winner.



Next stop - orang-utans.  Adlai was able to get pretty close to this one.




Well, as close as a piece of glass will let you.

Of course he found the statues.  And was smitten by the baby.



 Adlai hugged it without any prompting.  Well, the first time anyway.



Adlai being adventurous.  Balancing on the block of cement that separates us from the animals!




Well, that and again, the piece of glass.

And because the last time I went to a zoo with my cousin we got a lot of shots of animals from the back, I figured she would appreciate one more.