Never a dull moment!

Well, we've been up to various things lately...

Like playing with our ancient civilization treasure chests, which are definitely a cool way to explore history. We've been learning a lot about Rome, because we have several Roman SCA events coming up, and there's so much to learn. Keely practiced her Roman numerals with the wax tablet and stylus in the Ancient Rome chest, and Liam got into the Aztec one and asked me to make him the war headdress. Here he is, modeling it for your viewing pleasure...

In the process of getting our Triops tank set up, we realized we didn't have a stick-on thermometer to make sure their water was warm enough, so we took a trip to the pet store. While I was looking for what I wanted, the kids looked around at all the animals, and we found out that they sell rats. Now, granted we already had 2 rats (Keely has one named Pogo and Ben has Freckles aka Yuna), but Keely had babysitting money burning a hole in her pocket and decided she needed a baby. She named her new rat Napoleon because she has no fear, even of the dogs. Here's Keely playing with her two rats.

It was Dr. Seuss' birthday last week, so we made cupcakes in Seussian colors to celebrate. We wanted to make oobleck too, but the day seemed to get away before we had time.

MMMMMMmmmmmmmmm...chartreuse cake and lavender filling- looks like something right out of a Seuss novel...

And it's even better when you wear it!

Here's all 3 of our resident rodents, from top: Napoleon, Pogo and Yuna aka Freckles.

Apparently Ben's been driven mad after hours working on getting his myspace page set up...


And Liam actually caught me with the camera. Hard to say no to such a cute little guy...

And last but not least, our Triopses are growing like crazy. We haven't seen them eating each other...yet, but we're still waiting ;).

I need to finish taking down the Chinese New Year decorations and get up the St. Pat's Day and Ostara stuff...it's a bit hard to think spring, though, when it's been below zero and now it's snowing like crazy. I keep wondering where our share of the global warming is...

We've all joined the herd and got our myspace pages set up: Ben's, Breezy's, Keely's, and Liam's. It's been fun (I've always loved dinking around with HTML), and the kiddos are learning a lot about HTML and the internet (I'm calling it 'computer science'). Soon we'll be a whole family of computer geeks! Our friend Peter gave us another old Mac and we found a monitor, so now we have 4 working computers. Now we just need lots of extra ethernet cable to get them hooked up to the internet, and everyone will have one they can use whenever they want (sometimes there's a line for this one, between the ipods and the myspace pages and the emails and...).

Friday we're going to try to go see a jazz show at the college, and maybe we can take a look at the special periodic table of the elements display while we're there. It has each actual element encased in a block of lucite, so you can see what they look like. Saturday there's an event at the Visitors Center that sounds like fun...

But for now it's off to tidy up, work out, and run some errands!

Once again, never a dull moment...:)

Those Crazy Stevenses