What we learned today...

Today Katie took a "personal day" from school. ;) We are all pretty stressed out from waiting for Kristen to come home and I didn't mind the company.

Daniel got a haircut on the deck - finally warm enough and sunny so we wcould make the mess outside. He looks like a totally different little boy - his head is so much smaller! Pictures are coming later. I did pretty well except for the sideburns...those are pretty tricky with a moving target. Katie got her bangs cut...I was not going to attempt her thick, long hair.

The science experiment for the day was making popsicles in our new mold. Katie wanted to use Squirt, which seemed fine to me. Being Katie, she wanted to add blue food coloring. Because I am such a cool mom, I agreed. She had the molds partly filled but I thought they needed more Squirt. I opened the freezer this afternoon to discover that apparently carbonated liquids expand more than water does when it freezes. So, not only was there sticky pop all over the freezer, it was blue as well! It was actually less of a pain to clean up than I thought, although we will probably be finding blue ice in the freezer for a while.

During Daniel's nap, Katie challenged me to Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine on her new Sonic game. I managed to " beat the pants off her" in that game but when we tried the real Sonic game, she "beat the pants off me." She told me that she was ready to be a good sport even if I won.

Forrest finishes his classes today and we are all glad of that! Katie gave him the PS2 game Kingdom Hearts 2 and she is so anxious to play it with her dad! They will have lots of fun with it, I am sure.