Snap Painting by Zach

Today in the art studio the children had the opportunity to explore "snap painting" in the Art Studio today. They used old picture frames, rubber bands , and paint to complete the project.

The rubber bands where stretched across the frames, then each child coated the bands with paint. The students snapped the rubber bands over a piece of paper to create a snappy masterpiece!

Future Chess Master?

Both Meg and Zach have really gotten into chess. Almost every night Zach wants to be a game night and his game of choice is chess. He knows all the pieces and can set up the board. He is usually god for the first 5-10 moves, but then his attention starts to taper off.

We have been using a game called "No Stress Chess" where game play is more like a card game. You flip over cards which have a picture of a piece and how it moves. It helps a child start to understand how the pieces move. Zach is getting good at this game. He even beat dad last night!

Ice Cream makes me mad

This weekend we headed downtown for a fun night at the Hilton Towers. After hiking around and doing a little swimming in the hotel pool we went ot Grant Park for Jazzfest and ice cream. While we were there Zach gave us this beautiful shot.

Meg's shoe was eaten by an escalator

Meg almost had her foot ripped in half when she was wearing Crocs on an escalator this weekend. She was tapping her feet on the side of the escalator and the Croc gots caught between the wall and the stair. It chewed up the shoe and and ripped it down the middle. Meg was screaming bloody murder when Elizabeth swooped her up and took her down the stairs. I yanked the shoe out of the escalator and after seeing the shoe thought that her foot was ripped in half. We got lucky. She walked away with a little bruise but from what the security guard said a lot of kids have had their ankles broken.

All this reminds me of a scene from Mallrats with this line from Broedy,
"Listen, not a year goes by, not a year, that I don't hear about some escalator accident involving some bastard kid which could have easily been avoided had some parent - I don't care which one - but some parent conditioned him to fear and respect that escalator."

Parents teach you kids respect for the escalator!

Meg's First day at School

Meg had her first day at kindergarten today at St. Cletus. Her friends Ryan and Kyle joined her from Little People's so she wont be to lonely.