Oscar Stew

and all through the house,
not even Oscar was stirring, sorry no mouse.
The backpack was hung on the doorknob with care,
school’s down the street, & Drew will be there.
We’ve made a list, we’ve checked it twice!
His first day of school will be twice as nice.

Paper Chain – check.

Emergency contact numbers – check, check, check.

Spiffy new ‘do – check.

Backpack as big as he is – check. (complete with a port for his FP3 player, which he thinks is super cool, unfortunately he won’t get to use it!)

School supplies – check.

Kindergarten assessment – check. (I wasn’t allowed to go in, so picture taken through the classroom blinds)

Picture outside school grounds complete with sticker earned during assessment – check.

Good nights sleep – currently underway.

I’d say we are ready, ready, ready! Tomorrow is the big day…

I love finding ways to make cheap, healthy snacks for Drew & Brinley. It’s even better if the snack has craft-like techniques that the kids can participate in.

Last week we used paper lollipop sticks to string grapes into tasty popsicles. I would have used wooden skewers but I figured the paper lollipop sticks couldn’t do any damage if they were used as weapons after snack time was over. I’m just sayin’…

Some of the grapes put up a fight before being executed. Drew was able to conquer them, but not without a grimace and a grunt. Both very important techniques when it comes to overpowering grapes.

Into the freezer they go…and the waiting begins.

After a few hours they are ready to be devoured.  My kids like them partially defrosted so they are still icy, but not hard as rocks.

Never has a massacre been so tasty!

Drew and Brinley have been wanting to see Wall*e since it came out in June. Actually, I think Ryan really wanted to see Wall*e, and the kids were excited about it because that was all Daddy talked about. But we are cheapos and waited for a rainy day and the marvelous “Moonlight Matinee” ticket price to go. 

Drew and Brinley found some old boxes in the basement and wall-ah, two happy robots.

Brinley looks so happy to have finally been adopted. Hopefully she found a nice forever-family.

Wall*e called. He wants his costume back.

 Drew*e being taken back to the mothership.

You’d think it was pushing our luck to take all three kids to the theater, but we were pleasantly surprised when 97 minutes went by without a glitch!  

Rowan gives Wall*e two binkies up.