Luke and Sophie had the day off school, so they came to spend the day while the parents were at work. We don't have the chance to see them every week now that they are in school full-time, so we had a lot of activities planned. First thing, they drew pictures for Aunty Hannah's care package. When Sophie drew flowers, Luke knocked her for not being "seasonal" enough. I had to unruffle some feathers after that. Then she drew a turkey, and he drew a flower. Whatever! He also had my phone and was taking a picture or videotaping himself everytime I turned around.(The videos are apparently too long to email, so here is one of his snapshots. IMHO, he needs to work on his photography. But his videos are darling! You'll have to take my word for it.
Next up was a craft for Thanksgiving. It was originally planned as bookmarks, but the kids decided they made pretty cool puppets. Insert spooky voice," I foresee a puppet show in your future. "
They then baked a pan of brownies. Luke thought that greasing the pan was pretty cool as long as his hand was in the baggie. Cool trick. They both took turns licking the spoon. We sent the brownies home with Patrick since we
We gave the kids a choice of a nature walk or the Como Zoo and they picked the zoo. Surprise! Luke commandeered my cell phone again and took pictures. This is one of them. The tiger was lying right next to the glass and gave us a chance to admire her up close. Photography is not his forte. But that's okay. He told us "he wants to be an Astronomer. Because he loves learning about the galaxy. And some astronomers have said that our solar system is going to burn out in about 5 billion years. But I shouldn't worry about it because it is only an estimate." And a bunch more about "white dwarfs" and the sun "imploding" and things like that. What I heard was the Mwa mwa mwa sound of the adults in a Charlie Brown cartoon. But I am sure Boy Genius is right!
We went to McDonald's before heading home. Or as the kids call it, Mickey D's. Not our first choice. The afternoon was spent reading books and sitting in laps. Not a bad day. Not a bad day at all.
