If You Give Nichole a Medium...

...She makes a dragon out of homemade playdough.

She's come a long way in her sculpting since she made a sleeping giant for National Play-doh Day in September of 2013. The sculpture class she took last semester probably helped.

Sometimes Dinnertime is... Fun?

I made Panda Express Kung Pao Chicken and noticed the chili peppers looked like slugs as they cooked. 

Of course since it had chili peppers in it, it was spicy.

Mom: There's a reason it's called kung pow.

 

Some dinosaurs came to dinner as they often do.

At one point, Jet started flinging rice all over. Jr. helped clean it up.

Jr.: The spinosaurus is cleaning up. Can you clean up like the spinosaurus?

The stegosaurus started cleaning up.

Jr.: See. This is why the spinosaurus is a carnivore. It's much less messy.

What?

 

Catch of the Day

 

Wow. Lucky did a great job on his mustard pattern- better than I ever do.

You Know You're a Birder If...

You drive around the high school parking lot following a crow that is close enough to get pictures with a cell phone camera.

 

Great job with the pictures, Nichole. 

 

You know you're a birder if... you see a bird across an intersection and it has a certain look to it so you drive around the block several times to find out it's a kestrel.

Mom Is Old

It continues. Except now I'm even older and they're attacking both my age and my height.

 

Jr.: Jr. Jr., do you know why Mom is so short? Because over the centuries she's shrunk.

 

Jr. Jr.: Don't get rid of those clothes. What if you have another baby?

Me: I don't know if that's going to happen.

Jr. Jr.: But people have babies throughout their lives.

Me: Actually, women can't have babies after they get to a certain age.

Jr. Jr.: Oh, and you're waaaay past that age. 

Lucky: Wow, you're going to be even older when you're a grandma.

Mom: Yeah, older than I am right now, thank goodness.

Lucky: Because you're a thousand years old. Older than the pyramids. 

Mom: I think I've watched all the Jurassic Park and Jurassic World movies in the theater since the first one came out in 1993.

Jr.: When you were 80?

Blueberry Pie

I did it! I deviated from my usual apple pie and made a blueberry pie to celebrate National Blueberry Pie Day on April 28. I don't think I ever made blueberry pie before that. Yay, me!

And it turns out it was simpler than apple pie since I used frozen blueberries and I didn't have to peel or cut apples. Yumm. 

It was also Terry Pratchett's birthday so the kids convinced me to let them watch part of Going Postal.