Sunday, February 13, 2011

Collages

Ahhhh, sweet collages.

Nice day today (in a Michigan winter, that means above freezing).

Last week, we went to the art museum and determined that the kids are a little young still. Not because they don't like the art, but because I have to spend the whole time telling them not to touch anything. I only lasted 30 min. So we went to Wendy's, chased around some of the mutant dog squirrels that prowl these parts, and begged to go home. Who could say no to such suffering?

Yesterday, we went to the Hand's On museum. Better than the Art "Hand's Off" museum for obvious reasons. The picture of A-man in the lower left corner is possibly a foreshadowing of his destiny: to become president and launch all the nukes! dun dun duuuuuuh (ominous music). Although the green button might throw you off because the nuke button is most commonly depicted as red, I believe that it must be green. Green means go, and if you want the nukes to go, press green. I don't think we trust our presidents enough to have red nuke buttons that make them go rather than stop. We don't want any confusion, or do we? dun dun duuuuuuuuuh.

Monday, February 7, 2011

Botanical Garden

Every Wednesday, the Matthaei Botanical Garden is free for the afternoon, so we've been going to run around, take pictures, and enjoy the humid tropics of a greenhouse in Michigan. We've been trying out our new camera, and finding ample opportunity to do so.



Wednesday, February 2, 2011

Playing Around

We are snowed in. Timmy and Aaron are playing. I'm just writing everything he says because it's so random and he's talking up a storm:

"I go in da Simba slide and I go in da Star War Rocket Ship! And I color da Elephant! I got da Elephant Karahari Book. I got a Karahari book! A Karahari puzzle. I got yiddw (little) quack. I got a ewaphant toy. I got a ewaphant friend, a yiddw quack friend and a star wars friend. Can you hold little quack and put it on your hand? Thank you mommy! Thank you!
Hi mommy hi! I'm little quack! I'm an elephant, an elephant, you can go on the Simba slide!
Is that funny? Is that a funny elephant friend? Yeah? Oh...
Awin! Awin! I'm goin' on the Star Wars Rocket Ship!
Can you push the elephant water park balls?
Me: "You do it"
No! I don't! You do!
You push the elephant balls! You push the elephant balls before!
In a funny voice.."What, what, what you do! hahahahaha! That was a man!"
Here we go! Here we go. Here we go. Here we go mommy!
"Thank you" - me
Your Welcome!
Awin! Awin! Nonononono. Little Quack! It's little quack.
Rarrr!-I'm a car! I'm a car!