Bananas, Splits

The funny thing about all those bananas the other day is that we had a whole lot left over!  So what do you do when life throws bananas at you?  You make banana pudding!  Mommy worked a lot last night and this morning on using up all those bananas to make two pretty big servings of banana pudding, and three banana nut cakes.  As you can see above, the guys loved the banana pudding.  The rest of the office did as well - we stopped everything to have a big Banana Nut Bread Celebration!

We're working hard on Summer Xtreme here, with lots of work in different directions.  We're trying to figure out the Zoo Tour, dealing with Mr. Poolcheck at Frances Meadows, and making hand-outs for parent meetings.  We're arranging car pick-ups and figuring out large inflatables.  It's all over the place, and it'll be that way a few weeks.  But it should be fun.

Meanwhile, Madison was working on her piano, and working on her drawing skills as well, completing a big project that she had leftover from the school year.  Later on, we were at taekwondo together, throwing around nunchucks, doing splits and ... hold on a minute.  We haven't talked about splits that much lately here.  Madison is actually getting better and better and closer and closer to doing a full, crazy split at the studio.  She's started out with a lot of stretching and a smaller angle with the legs.  But now, she's going further and further down.  She's doing great with these splits.  And yes, it looks painful to us grown-ups!

Later on, there was more Gravity Falls, and the continued adventures of the Cobalt Squadron.  We've been watering our plants outside, and picking mint from the back yard to place in our water overnight.  Diffused water has been delicious, with orange and lemon slices, along with mint leaves from the back yard.

In other news, it was a sad day for fans of Leon Redbone, who passed away this day.  Mommy and Daddy have always been big fans of his music, which is quite different of course.  And thanks to the movie "Elf," he's been immortalized as a part of Christmas.  Mommy got a CD of his for Daddy this last Christmas, and we were playing that on the way down to Florida.  Anyway, that's a sad note, so to speak.

But the day on the whole was decent, although pretty hot.  We're still in this heat wave, so the air conditioner has been really appreciated.  And also appreciated... that tasty banana pudding.