What an enjoyable weekend. The weather was perfect and sunny and we were able to spend most of it outdoors.
On Saturday, we took the kids to the MSU Science Festival. We didn’t realize what a large event it was and ended up spending most of the day there. We walked around campus and checked out some really cool exhibits, all of which were hands-on and kid friendly. Ajax’s favorite thing was painting with insects. The kids were provided with maggots which they then picked up with tweezers and placed into paint and then back onto their paper. Ajax thought it was the coolest thing. It was hard to tell what Noomi’s favorite thing was… she enjoyed looking at the turtles and gluing macaroni to a large collage of the state of Michigan. Both kids were pretty beat when we got home. Unfortunately, we missed Noomi’s napping window so she refused to nap. The kids then spent the afternoon playing outside with the neighborhood kids.
On Sunday, we took it easy and did some cleaning and laundry. The kids then spent the afternoon again running around with neighbor kids. When it was time to come in for dinner it began raining, so that seemed to be perfect timing. Overall, a very nice weekend. Oh, Ajax also did a homework assignment with Dave. He had to write out simple instructions for a task. Any task, he was free to chose and then on Monday he has to present it to the class. He opted to show his class how to use his electric pencil sharpener. I went ahead and bought a pack of pencils for the whole class so that they could all try it out. He’s pretty pumped about it, lol.
Noomi is rounding off this weekend with multiple bruises and a black eye. We’re unsure how exactly she got the black eye – it could have been when she fell down the last 4 steps into the basement while she was chasing Ajax (luckily she was wearing her bike helmet which saved her head from the basement floor), or it could have been when she randomly flipped off the coffee table and hit herself in the face with her own knee, or it could have been when she was trying to race past me into the kitchen while I was carrying a large plastic bin – she hit the corner of the bin and bounced into a kitchen cabinet. We’re not really sure, but any of the above-listed incidents could have been the cause.
