Apple Mater

Here's Madison, doing her best impression of Mater.  This is such a simple craft, but it was lots of fun - Madison got the idea from her teacher today.  They sliced apples, put peanut butter on them for glue, and used marshmallows for teeth.  As you can see, this simple idea was hilarious at the end.

It was Johnny Appleseed Day, so we grabbed some more of the apples we picked the other day and Mommy got to working on the preparation.  While that was going on, Daddy popped in the Disney Johnny Appleseed cartoon from years ago, which Madison has now seen a couple times.  Afterwards, we got to work, and as you can see, Daddy clearly needs to do some flossing:

So does Mommy:

We had fun tonight with this simple craft.  We didn't have as much time as we normally do in the afternoon, but that's because of ballet class.  Madison had her typical Thursday afternoon, coming home from school, eating some snacks and getting ready for ballet.  Daddy got her over to Brenau just in time after that.  Next time, I'll bring a camera.  So many children there, so many tiny ballerinas getting ready for their big practices.  There is a Nutcracker camp in December - we signed her up for this already.  Also, we know when her spring recital is.  This is amazing, as all last year we never really knew when anything was going to be until the last minute.  Now, suddenly we know when practice is for NEXT year's Nutcracker performances!

Anyway, she had a great time this afternoon at class.  While Daddy was waiting for her, he proofed the booklet for our next video-game inspired series.  It should be a lot of fun:  Madison will be seeing a little bit of the guitar hero thing with something we've ordered, plus she'll finally get to see a bit of Pac-Man too.  We've borrowed a copy of that from the church, so she can see a game that Daddy used to play when he was her age.  Hey, at least it's not "Pong."  Although I did notice that a version of "Pong" is on the X-box now.  I'm so totally going to get it - and Madison will so totally be bored with it.  We've come a long way with video games, haven't we?

We read some more Bible before bedtime tonight, but we're nearing the end of this children's Bible.  Madison insists on hearing it each night, so there's not much of an argument from me.  Tomorrow is her big track meet - the "Fund Run."  She'll have a great time with that, we hope.

There's a chill in the air - can you feel it?  Fall is here, and we were half-tempted to pop in an October-themed movie.  We might wait until tomorrow night though - Mommy is anxious to watch Wallace and Gromit again.  We could have other plans tomorrow night, but we don't know at the moment.  I guess we'll all find out again with tomorrow night's posting.

Until then, it's time to hunker down for some more "Monk."  We're somewhere around episode eighty, but it looks like this will be taken off of Netflix on Tuesday.  There's no way we'll make it to the end - this just might be a future Christmas gift.  Mommy has really enjoyed this show a lot.  Daddy too - we're somewhat addicted!

Daddy has been pretty medicated lately.  Madison has been iffy, occasionally showing signs for sickness, but over it much more quickly.  She complained about a headache in an interesting way, mainly because she couldn't just come out and call it a headache.  She said she forgot that she hit her head and it still hurts a bit.  After a bit of conversation, we realized that it was actually just a standard-issue headache, something she's not entirely familiar with yet.  This comes for Daddy - and a lot of people - with a change in the weather.  Also, allergies can wreak havoc.  But again, with all of us, it's not so bad.  Medicine helps clear the sinuses, and chase away the headaches.   We'll be fine!