Daniel and Baseball

Daniel has started his first season of baseball (technically "mini-ball" at this age). This weekend some of the high school players came out and gave a clinic for the kids. Daniel had a lot of fun and was able to work on hitting, catching, and throwing. His first game is this Tuesday and he can hardly wait!

Fifth Grade Field Trip

Last week Emily's class went to Berkley for a field trip to Lawrence Hall Museum of Science. It was a long drive but a lot of fun overall. I had a terrible sinus infection, so that made the drive even longer. But, I had great company to share the ride with. Here are some pictures we took during our day.

The View of the bay and the bridges

We learned about "The Amazing Brain"

and made a hypothesis

 about different animals brains.

After that we were able to

 hold and observe some of the animals.

Then we got to experiment with

and discover the properties of dry ice.

Is it a gas? A liquid? Or a solid?

Quick Explanation

What follows is an attempt to multi-task

by 1) getting the old photos out of my camera and

2) burning some time since I cannot sleep anyway

(Thank you loud-disrespectful neighbors

who party way too late, way too often and are way too loud until 3am).

Wheh, I got off track there - it must be the lack of sleep.

So, please (all 1 of you who read this)

 excuse my marathon photo posts

 and lack of words,

 but here is a look into some interesting moments

from the last few months.

Daniel Bakes Cookies

Daniel wanted to bake some cookies all by himself, so...

He measured

Cracked eggs

Dropped shells

Retrieved shells

Mixed ingredients

Performed a Quality Control

Stirred in the most important ingredient!

Sshhh...Added the secret ingredient

And Now...THE MESS

The Drop

The Lick...uuhhhumm, I mean Quality Control #2

Ready? for the oven?

Time to share the GOLD (DOUGH that is...)

Cute Distraction

Waa..Laa  Finished!

Checking for Chewiness...Yep, that's good

The Offering

The HUG

THE END...

Seed Planting and Birthday Celebrations

Planting seeds to start our vegetable and flower garden

Someone turns 37!!!

Spring is Here!

An attempt to get a "Blossom Picture"

One mothering.. one impatiently smiling, one climbing a tree!

Now... One whining, one STILL impatiently smiling, and one hurt!

Brrrr... Pool play in cold water!