Barrette Star

Madison is quite proud of this barrette star she made.  She wanted Daddy to snap a picture of it this morning, so here it is:  evidence of artistic expression, a creation made from the medium of barrettes.  What does it mean, or symbolize, you ask?  What is the artist trying to express here?  Perhaps it is merely an asterisk, that in itself a symbol that says there's more to what your looking at, if you just look further.  Or it could just be a bunch of barrettes in the shape of a star.

Today was Taco Tuesday!  So we had tacos, of course.  But we also watched "The LEGO Movie" again, this time for a bit of research.  We love this movie - there are so many great lines in it, and there was a lot of inspiration drawn from it for the new series.  Just watching it we got some great quotes, but some interesting insights that will appear in the weeks to come with our new series.

We had piano practice, and here we are at F major.  This is a tricky little scale with the right hand, as you only use four of your fingers when moving up and down the scale.  And one of those of course is ti flat, the black key.  The challenge is playing it with your left hand and right hand, going up and down the scale at the same time while your hands are doing different things.  This is a lot more complicated than rubbing your belly while patting your head at the same time!

This is just the sort of thing a S.H.I.E.L.D. agent could do, of course.  Yes, we're continuing our binge-watching of season one.  Madison definitely can't watch it yet, but Mommy and Daddy have been sort of addicted once more after Madison goes to bed - tonight we saw the episode that introduces the official lanyards.  In case you want one, here it is:

Madison got her killer whale today - this was a project she did just before the start of school.  It was from a party where the invited guests could paint their own projects, and then of course these projects were fired up in the kiln.  The whole process afterwards takes a few days, and we were just getting around to receiving the end result.  Madison did really well with that orca.  This was just after returning from SeaWorld, so she was inspired to do a little under-the-sea theme with her artwork.  It came out nice.

So we're off to bed tonight - tomorrow will be a much busier day it appears, leading up to an even busier weekend.  But we're all well for the most part, though just a bit sleepy at times.  Madison has a few more targets for her online reward system, one of them being a new app for her iPad.  Can you believe she's earning these points so fast that she's crossing these rewards off one by one?  She's relentless!