Jimmy

One of Clara's stellar qualities is her work ethic. She puts in full days of top quality work at school, and then comes home and gets to her homework without a single nag or nudge from us. She is driven to do her best, no matter how big or small the assignment.

This latest project definitely falls into the BIG category. She had to research a president (she chose Jimmy Carter - such a cool guy) and make a rolling TV type thing to display her information.She went above and beyond in every aspect of this project, rocked the oral presentation part, and was so proud of the finished product. Almost as proud as we are of her.We are lucky parents.

P.S. Did you know that brother Billy Carter was allergic to peanuts?

Looking up through trees

It's the most gorgeous of days, and I'm a bit housebound, due to an afternoon-napping child ("sleep"over last night....), and the usual mountain of laundry. So I decided to go out in the backyard and look up through trees. Here's what I saw:Then I decided to look down into a cactus.
I also saw (and photographed) about 200ish other, similar sights.
Cut me some slack, I have a new camera. Restraint is not an option.

Lego Stuff

Trev is a bit of a fickle jack-of-all-trades when it comes to his Lego. He'll be passionately at work on a castle one day, and the very next day he'll dismantle it to make a hotel or a pizza shop. He makes crazy-realistic little machines, and then tosses them into the pile as he moves on to his next creation. I need to start photographing these amazing and ingenious little pieces before they're relegated to the brick pile.

So here's the cell block he's working on at the moment:
And here's what remains of an arcade, complete with air hockey and a couple of video games:More treasures to come...