Pop Culture!?!

Just now I overheard Avery playing with her Barbies.

One little Kelly doll was talking to another Kelly doll and said this:

"Sometimes I live with my Dad and sometimes I live with my Mom. But I like living with my Dad because he has a DS (as in Nintendo)."

So I stepped in and said:

"Avery, we all live together - why are you pretending that this little girls' Mommy and Daddy live apart?"

She responded:

"Well, Jon and Kate don't live together anymore."

Oh Boy! If you think they are not listening to the TV.....they ARE!

I remember a story that my Mom used to tell me about a time when she was not feeling well and she was lying on the floor. I believe I was four, but I was concerned for her and asked what was wrong. She told me that she was sick. I said, "that's okay Mom, Steve was sick too and he's all better now". Steve was a main character on the soap opera that she watched. I don't think she watched another episode after that comment.

GAME DAY!

We're excited today - it's the Super Bowl and the Colts are playing!

Jon has two autographed footballs that are very special to him and it's ironic that the two he has are signed by the two quarterbacks that are playing in today's game: Peyton Manning & Drew Brees. (For those that don't follow football: Peyton Manning plays for the Indianapolis Colts and Drew Brees plays for the New Orleans Saints, but he was an outstanding quarterback at Purdue.) We're proud of the former Boilermaker that is playing in the Super Bowl, but our loyalty remains with the COLTS - GO HORSE!

In honor of the game today, Avery and I and a couple of girlfriends had a girls' morning yesterday and had our toes done to show our support (actually stole the blue and white idea from my friend, The Blissfully Happy Housewife). Now we are literally dressed from head to toe in BLUE.

The last time the Colts were in the Super Bowl, they won and we're hopeful that today will be another big win! We're off to watch the game with the neighbors.

School Project

Avery chose to participate in the school's Mindscapes project. It was an optional science, history, and art fair that took place last week.

We decided to do a Family Tree project and it was a lot of fun.

We started several weeks ago collecting pictures of all of the relatives, and enjoyed looking at old pictures along the way.

Avery is becoming quite the little artist - I let her draw the tree and branches and she did a great job. We printed off an apple template from the internet and I helped her cut out several apples and leaves to put on the tree.

I wanted her to learn something by doing this project, so we came up with four questions for each person on our tree.

1) What color are your eyes?

2) What color is your hair?

3) What is your height?

4) What year where you born?

She called everyone on the phone to interview them and captured the answers on the tree. The grandparents helped answer the questions for the great grandparents that aren't with us anymore.

It was fun to see Avery's "wheels" working as she put everything together.

Last Thursday, we had the chance to go to the school for an ice cream social and to see everyone's projects. She was one of only two students from her class that entered a project. We're so proud of our little Kindergartner!

I thought it turned out really nice - now we just need to figure out where this huge project will occupy space in our home.