A Few Random Pictures

Here are a few random pictures from recent events including Kai’s stint as a volunteer victim at the Boy Scout first aid day.   Kai’s job was to play a Cub Scout who spent the day in the woods and came back to camp all itchy.   Each group of scouts would provide first aid under that watchful eye of the adult who was scoring their performance.

Some Random Pictures

Here are a few random pictures from the start of the school year.   They are growing fast with Kai now in 4th grade and Nora in 1st.   Enjoy the photos!

Hipstamatic

Here are a few more pictures of Kai and Nora taken on my iphone with the Hipstamatic app.

It looks like Nora will turn into a pretty good cook.  A ruthlessly good cook.  Below is a sample of the dialog she recently had with the pile of mushrooms she was chopping for our dinner.  She will not eat the mushrooms but she is more than happy to chop them up.

Nora (in a deep, menacing voice): “OK mushroom, now it is your turn”
Nora (as mushroom in high pitch pleading): “No, please! Not me, Heeellllppp!”
Nora (in deep, menacing voice)
: “Ooooh my Dad is gonnna looooove you!”  <chop> <chop> <chop>

Monsters of the Deep

We had a new lunch item the other day that was quite a hoot and I thought I’d share.  A few days ago we had gone to the library to check out the Disney movie of  James and the Giant Peach (which we are almost done reading) and, while that was checked out, there was a BBC series on Sperm Whales so we got that instead.  There was a lot of talk about the abyss and “Monsters of the deep” and so Kai and Nora started using that in their play (i.e. look out Nora, here comes a Monster of the Deep, let’s get in the cardboard box).  Around the same time I saw a web post where you cut a hot dog or sausage into slices and insert dry noodles before cooking.  The dry pasta can pierce the hot dog but goes all floppy (like tentacles) when cooked (hence the name it earned – monsters of the deep).   The pictures below show the cooks in action.