Volcanoes and Chocolate

May 17 was National Idaho Day. We had a baked potato bar.

May 18 was Mount St. Helens Day. I took the leftover baked potatoes and made them into mashed potatoes for mashed potato volcanoes. 

Jet had a lot of fun helping put together our volcanoes with dino nuggets and green foliage (broccoli trees and green pepper bushes) and "those poor people" raisins. I put mine on the mountain. He put his in the crater. We had fun with the gravy lava, too. 

I also told Jet to say, "This means something," referencing Close Encounters of the Third Kind. 

 

May 19 was the Anniversary of the Rubik's Cube. Lucky got points to spend in his classroom store. He saved them up to get a bunch of things at the end of the school year, including rubber duckies and a Rubik's Cube. 

May 20 was Eliza Doolittle Day. I ate too much chocolate. The kids didn't eat a much. The song says, "Lots of chocolate for me to eat." Me, not us. 

Nichole drew chocolate for the holiday.

Jeremy was very impressed with how she was able to do the foil.

 

Everybody did have some chocolate later on in the day. Jr. was asleep but Jet didn't want him to be left out so he kept putting round pieces of wrapped chocolate on his ear but they rolled off so finally a wrapped chocolate coin was put on his head and stayed there for a while. I don't know if Jet did it or someone else, but the next day, Jet made sure Jr. got that piece of candy to eat. 

Congrats, Jr.

Two years ago Nichole finished off junior high at home. She went to the school to pick up certificates. Some teachers even dropped off prizes.

This year, Jr. got to go to the junior high for a kind of graduation thing. He got to sit on the stage to be recognized with other students who did outstanding in certain areas at school. Jeremy and I were there watching him. Then he got certificates and we said, "Yay," and he got to see some friends who also said, "Yay." I'm paraphrasing here, of course.

Then we went home and celebrated with the family by eating Devil's Food Cake (May 19 was Devil's Food Cake Day).

Since May 19 was the anniversary of the Rubik's Cube, Jr. used some of his saved up points at school and got himself another Rubik's Cube. I think this kid may have as many or more than me at this point. Love it.

Congrats, Jr. I know you were so exhausted by the end of the day but you did it!

Rubik's Cube Anniversary 2021

May 19 is the anniversary of the Rubik's Cube. I got out some cubes and told the boys to make a centerpiece for our table.

We had an idea to make all sorts of cube shaped foods for dinner but it was a busy day so this is what we had. At least some of what we had.

Cheese cubes, rolls that were kind of cube shaped, ditalini pasta because it's the closest to cube shaped we could find, meatballs because they're cubed... well, they're actually spheres but they're a defined shape. We also had water with ice cubes. Refreshing.

The boys played with Rubik's cubes a lot that evening.

May 19 was also Devil's Food Cake Day. I made devil's food cake from a mix but made frosting from scratch using a recipe from The Food Nanny. Yumm.

Look What I Did

Jr.: I solved the Rubik's Cube... and won a prize.

Another prize dropped off at the doorstep, this time for extra credit in science. Way to go, Jr. And way to go solving the Rubik's cube.
Nichole had to go to the school to pick up her award certificates for several classes but her science teacher delivered her science prize to the door. The students had to have a certain number of biological encounters in a year's time and they would be awarded a prize if they had the most in a certain category. Nichole had the most encounters with... you guessed it, birds. Over 200 species in a year.

Hungarian Pirates or Pirate Cube?

May 19 was the anniversary of the Rubik's Cube, which we all know was invented by a Hungarian.
What better way to celebrate than to eat Hungarian food, twist Rubik's Cubes, and watch... The Pirates of Penzance?
The kids once again got creative with rationalizing movie watching. Jeremy made us rokott krumpli and the kids wanted to watch that movie so here's what we eventually came up with.
Originally it was that Hungary is a European country and so is England where Penzance is located. Meh. Too much of a stretch for me. However, May 19 was May Ray Day and the pirates wanted to may-ray the major general's daughters. The pirates could also be described as devils and there may be food and cake served at the wedding. May 19 was also Devil's Food Cake Day.

We saved devil's food cake for a later date, though, to celebrate my birthday along with homemade alfredo pizza. Mmmm. Craveworthy.

Like with Jeremy's birthday, Lucky made me a present of a LEGO character. This time it was Guybrush Threepwood doing his Guybrush Threepwood dance. What a sweetie.

It's Hungarian

Google informed me this morning that it's the 40th anniversary of the Rubik's Cube.  How did I not know that?  Did you know that the Rubik's Cube was invented by a Hungarian?  That I did know.

Happy Anniversary, Rubik's Cube.