Ballet continued tonight, and Daddy thought this: "Now that there's only a 20% chance of rain, I can go and wash the car while Madison is dancing."
As you would expect, it rained. Again. And out of nowhere, too. I was seriously looking around the horizon, and there was no rain in sight anywhere. And I knew the chances were very slim of it happening. In fact, it didn't rain at all at our house.
But the law is this: if you wash your car, it will rain. People in California are suffering from a drought right now at this moment, but this is the solution. If only their governor would issue a proclamation that announced that everyone in the state should go wash their car… there'd be enough rain to cancel out all the problems they've had this year.
Anyway, ballet went well. It is now really going, two times a week. Madison is doing well, enjoying it. She does this position when she gets home, something to show us what she's learned: it's a doughnut. She's curved herself backwards so that her feet actually touch her head. And while doing so, is not screaming in pain. Because that's what Daddy would be doing!
So we're impressed. Madison said she couldn't do it initially, but has practiced and stretched, and now she can really do it. Good for you, Madison!
She's bringing in her iPad to school now, by the way. The BYOT program is going this week, so Daddy and Madison were like hackers in the parking lot this morning before dropping her off at school. We were checking for the wireless source and as quickly as possible hooking up with it. All so Daddy wouldn't have to go into the school. And we were able to do it - it was just funny racing against time in a parking lot with a little computer like that. Madison used the iPad to look up some QR codes today, finding out information about rocks. She's doing that all week, along with some other rock-related activities. Of course, Daddy is there on Thursday. And on Friday, Madison is making her own pet rock. Remember those? I don't. That was before my time, but it will be fun making those again. Daddy is going all retro and looking up the crate and packaging for it, so we can have a home for our pet rock. We don't have a pet cat or dog, but we'll have ourselves a pet rock, right?
Tonight we finished up the latest Rush Revere book with a marathon of reading, this time getting through the Boston Tea Party and beyond. That would be BTP, by the way. Daddy and Mommy were in the Boston Harbor once upon a time, tossing tea over the side of a boat. And tonight, we once again learned why they were tossing tea overboard. Apparently there was a tax on the tea, and Madison learned along with us the colonists didn't want to pay the tax on the tea. So three boats stayed in the harbor filled with tea that nobody wanted. And the boats couldn't return unless the tea was delivered. So the only logical decision to make here was this: dress up as Indians, and throw all the tea overboard!
This is what the tea party was all about, about too many taxes without representation. Which is not an altogether unfamiliar concept nowadays, but I digress.
Anyway, this was a neat book for teaching Madison a little history. She's learned about Samuel Adams, Patrick Henry, Paul Revere and even a bit about John Adams and George Washington. Oh, and Benjamin Franklin too. This is not a bad thing at all.
We said our prayers, prayers for Uncle Dave, prayers for Mommy and prayers for our world. The stock market did some crazy movement today, as the world attempts to stabilize itself and its economy. Big news on Wall Street today, but the conventional wisdom is that this isn't the big thing to panic about. Apparently that comes later?
Anyway, Madison went to sleep with a smile on her face, and Daddy and Mommy went downstairs to continue binge-watching our latest show: "The Twilight Zone." Seriously, we've been watching a bunch of those old episodes, and some of them are pretty good!
As you would expect, it rained. Again. And out of nowhere, too. I was seriously looking around the horizon, and there was no rain in sight anywhere. And I knew the chances were very slim of it happening. In fact, it didn't rain at all at our house.
But the law is this: if you wash your car, it will rain. People in California are suffering from a drought right now at this moment, but this is the solution. If only their governor would issue a proclamation that announced that everyone in the state should go wash their car… there'd be enough rain to cancel out all the problems they've had this year.
Anyway, ballet went well. It is now really going, two times a week. Madison is doing well, enjoying it. She does this position when she gets home, something to show us what she's learned: it's a doughnut. She's curved herself backwards so that her feet actually touch her head. And while doing so, is not screaming in pain. Because that's what Daddy would be doing!
So we're impressed. Madison said she couldn't do it initially, but has practiced and stretched, and now she can really do it. Good for you, Madison!
She's bringing in her iPad to school now, by the way. The BYOT program is going this week, so Daddy and Madison were like hackers in the parking lot this morning before dropping her off at school. We were checking for the wireless source and as quickly as possible hooking up with it. All so Daddy wouldn't have to go into the school. And we were able to do it - it was just funny racing against time in a parking lot with a little computer like that. Madison used the iPad to look up some QR codes today, finding out information about rocks. She's doing that all week, along with some other rock-related activities. Of course, Daddy is there on Thursday. And on Friday, Madison is making her own pet rock. Remember those? I don't. That was before my time, but it will be fun making those again. Daddy is going all retro and looking up the crate and packaging for it, so we can have a home for our pet rock. We don't have a pet cat or dog, but we'll have ourselves a pet rock, right?
Tonight we finished up the latest Rush Revere book with a marathon of reading, this time getting through the Boston Tea Party and beyond. That would be BTP, by the way. Daddy and Mommy were in the Boston Harbor once upon a time, tossing tea over the side of a boat. And tonight, we once again learned why they were tossing tea overboard. Apparently there was a tax on the tea, and Madison learned along with us the colonists didn't want to pay the tax on the tea. So three boats stayed in the harbor filled with tea that nobody wanted. And the boats couldn't return unless the tea was delivered. So the only logical decision to make here was this: dress up as Indians, and throw all the tea overboard!
This is what the tea party was all about, about too many taxes without representation. Which is not an altogether unfamiliar concept nowadays, but I digress.
Anyway, this was a neat book for teaching Madison a little history. She's learned about Samuel Adams, Patrick Henry, Paul Revere and even a bit about John Adams and George Washington. Oh, and Benjamin Franklin too. This is not a bad thing at all.
We said our prayers, prayers for Uncle Dave, prayers for Mommy and prayers for our world. The stock market did some crazy movement today, as the world attempts to stabilize itself and its economy. Big news on Wall Street today, but the conventional wisdom is that this isn't the big thing to panic about. Apparently that comes later?
Anyway, Madison went to sleep with a smile on her face, and Daddy and Mommy went downstairs to continue binge-watching our latest show: "The Twilight Zone." Seriously, we've been watching a bunch of those old episodes, and some of them are pretty good!
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