Painting the Sun

The big yellow one is the sun!  Madison is painting the sun here, as we started on the solar system project for the week.  We've got one more sphere to go get and that's one for Saturn, otherwise, we have the planets all lined up - even one for Pluto if we're being a bit rebellious!  Madison began to paint these today, and got Jupiter done right after the sun, and then Mercury, Venus, and Mars.  That leaves Earth, Uranus, Neptune, Saturn, and perhaps Pluto if get to it.  Can't wait to show you the finished product!

Today we did a lot of different things.  Of course, Madison was working on her piano a little bit.  There was also bath time, and a bit of grocery shopping too.  We were picking up groceries for the 501st visitors tomorrow, some new faces were excited to meet.  Darth Vader is fantastic, but the more obscure characters are always lots of fun too.  An Imperial Gunner?  Yes, please!

Madison and Daddy each had their sheets of paper, and we plotted out the picture on the worksheet Daddy made a few days ago.  Madison had no idea what it was until the very end, constantly asking, "What in the world is this?"  Line by line was drawn, and eventually the picture became clear - she did a great job with the Loth Wolf!

Daddy was working on the board game again, this time while everyone was watching the next few episodes of "Rebels."  The episodes on the planet Seelos are pretty amazing, visually.  If those were live action productions, they'd be something pretty amazing.  As is, we wound up with "The Last Jedi" instead, which came afterwards, and in this humble writer's opinion didn't have the great sequence that this episode did, with sandstorms and AT-AT's.  It was a pretty amazing episode, anyway, and the girls were on the couch watching it while Daddy was cutting out small pieces and gluing them together.  Hopefully this board game will look good at the end, but it will take some time.

Yes, I have all these cards for the series too.

Another big thing Madison and Daddy started was "The X-cutioner's Song," the next part in the X-Men books, a fourteen-issue crossover, and one of the first ones that Daddy picked up so long ago.  We're reading through it again, and Madison is meeting all these extra characters now.  We'll probably go through this story the next two weeks or so - it's a longer crossover, although I don't think the longest.  These were such big epic events for Marvel.

Madison has been playing the Minecraft story mode lately, following the adventures of Jessie, from one episode to the next.  One of our favorite characters is Ivor Sigge, who I just learned was voiced by Paul Reubens.  That might be why we like the character so much - he's been pretty funny.  But the game itself has been a lot of fun for Madison.  She was up first this morning, and much like Saturday morning cartoons used to be, she was out in the great room right away, playing the next few parts of this ongoing game.  Daddy came down and just watched, enjoying the ongoing story as much as she was.

Speaking of which, we're still reading tonight.  Big developments going on with "A Series of Unfortunate Events."  Each chapter is revealing a little more, and you can tell this series is approaching an end, although there are three books after this one.  Regardless, it's been a fun read for all of us.

It was a good day today, one that involved a little bit of preparation for tomorrow.  The trip to the grocery store was a nice little getaway, but for the most part we were indoors today.  Madison wrote a thank you note to a friend for sending her a nice gift.  Madison even wrote the address on the envelope, put a stamp on it, and then put in the mailbox.  She learned how to do all this for the first time today, the mailing part.  But she did it all with a bit of guidance, and of course it was a nice thing to do.

We said our prayers, and there were zerberts as well.  We went to bed early tonight, because tomorrow we've got a big day at KidPak, a long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away...