Cross Country Skiing

Maddie and Theo have been taking cross country skiing lessons. I love this sport - great exercise and fresh air. I can't wait for Gabriel to get on skis so we can go out. We have a ski track about 5 minutes from our house. It's great! High schools have races during the kids' lesson and it's really fun to see the camaraderie amongst the kids. There are national champions racing against kids in their first race. I can see this being a sport our family gets into!

Rocks and Minerals

I was happy to chaperone Maddie's field trip the Harvard Peabody Museum. They have an amazing collection of rocks and minerals (which her class had been studying). It was a fun trip though a bit stressful as I had to cobble care together for Gabriel and the bus was late arriving back to Newton. Oh well...

Junior Girl Scout Cooking

Working on the Simple Meal badge brought us to the Windsor Club to cook. The girls had "the best meeting ever" where we cooked breakfast burritos and gluten free peanut butter cookies. Yum!

Air and Space Museum

Maddie's class completed a big Washington DC project. One of the elements was to create a model of a building. She drew the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum. Initially, she wasn't thrilled about it. But as we learned about the building, she became excited about the architectural beauty of it. I was very proud of her as this building was designed and completed 100% by her. It's a beauty!

Crazy boys

Inspired by "Cut in Half"

Cut in Half

Maddie made these videos to send to Nathan while he was away on one of his longer trips to Canada and California. We really laughed over them!

She also emailed him after the videos:  

Like the videos I sent? When MOM WAS FILMING MY TOP AND BOTTOM HALF DANCING THEY WERE LAUGHING! [even the captain] I thought it was mean that they were laughing just because Gabs cut me in half with a lightsaber. It sort of hurt but not to bad.

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Concoctions

The kids have taken to creating concoctions - a glass filled with whatever, normally the grosser the better. They like to see how the concoction changes over a few days. Eeek!