Spring Break Blues
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A New Hat to Wear
Friday, April 1, 2011
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mmm...bop.
Monday, March 7, 2011
I think Boyce has been sneaking behind our backs and listening to Hanson
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Happy Birthday to me
I recently celebrated my birthday. It was a pretty uneventful day for the most part. A 2 hour meeting in the morning and a science fair in the evening pretty much took up the whole day. We did end up eating out after the Science fair. We went to a restaurant that overlooks the water for dinner, which is quite small and doesn't really host kids well. As I walked in by myself with all four kids (Jake was meeting us), there were many anxious looks coming our way. Gage, walked right up to the bartender and gave him knuckles, which he followed up with squids. (We'll have a video presentation up soon of all of Gage's knuckles) Anyways, it broke the tension of the entire place and they were quite happy to have us there. Sometimes it pays to have a crazy kid!
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It's Science
Oh yeah! We had our first science fair project here at the Snodgrass house. I know you are all just as thrilled as I was so I'll let you in on the experiment. Karmen's project actually advanced to the next level of the fair, so here she is showing it off. My, I mean her, project was to see if static electricity would make cereal jump. Thankfully we had a stash of unneeded record albums, an old wool sweater and plenty types of cereal lying around the house.
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Man on a Mission
Friday, January 21, 2011
Over Christmas break we were able to stop by and visit another family of train enthusiasts. They had recently purchased some cars for their model railroad that Gage found quite impressive. He pleaded with the family to add it to his Christmas stash, but ended up with a far greater gift--for everyone involved. They gave Gage the catalog of trains that has every model train imaginable inside of it. He very quickly became obsessed with a blue train with three freight cars. We told him, if he wanted a train in his book he would have to do chores to earn money to buy it. He talked about this idea for the next two weeks and as soon as we got home to Washington he got busy. He often asks me once or twice a day if he can do some chores! Most of the time I give him a wet rag and give him an area to clean wipe off. He has also helped unload the dishwasher, wipe off the table, pick up toys etc. Lately if we go to the store and he sees a toy he would like we just tell him that he needs to keep doing chores, but then he reminds us he is doing chores to get the blue train! We are hoping this will last the 10 years it will take him to earn enough money to buy that blue train! Nickels and pennies take a long time to amount to anything! What are your favorite chores for your preschoolers?
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Some Seattle Fun
Wednesday, January 19, 2011
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