Valentine Boxes

Every year the kids paint and decorate Valentine boxes for their school parties. You can clearly see their different personalities in their designs.

She started with purple and pink paint. Then she wanted the smallest stickers possible and used all of them.

He picked red and yellow paint and mixed most of it to make orange. He started with the monster stickers and put happy faces on them.

Death and Dunderment

My kids are obsessed with death. They related everything to death. MLK - he's dead. Abraham Lincoln - he's dead. George Washington - he's dead. These are all people we have read about recently so I do see the connection, but they want to know when everyone died and how they died. My grandfathers, Wonderful Husband's mom, etc. Today Sweet Son came across a photo of the Queen of England. He had three questions - 1. Why is she wearing an ugly dress? 2. Is she dead? 3. When will she die? Sigh


Picking up the kids from school Sweet Son noticed there are florescent hall lights in the ceiling and decorative lights on the walls. He wanted to know why they would need both. He thinks having both is "dunderment." I correct him. It's redundant. We walked down the hallway discussing redundancies. The director listened for a minute and said we are the only ones who have these conversations. Is that supposed to discourage me? It really just makes me want to talk to everyone else so they can also learn about it.

Wordless Wednesday

In the tropics

Here are some signs to let you know you are in the tropics when traveling.

They were watching an iguana eating. They watched quietly for a long time before other kids came over and scared it away.

There are bananas on those trees! (I love her hair in this pic.)

Here's a close up of one of the iguanas that weren't afraid of adults, just kids that tried to pet them.