Her plan to keep you safe

I don't watch TV.  Really.  Not at all.  Once a year I sit to watch the Superbowl.  Other than that, nothing.  Definitely not the evening news.  But our family does discuss current events, foreign affairs, science and its new discoveries, and so on, quite regularly.

Adele with the nest full of pteranodons

So now Adele is in the kitchen with her family of origami pteranodons.  She has made them a nest out of construction paper, and a "safe house" out of some wool waste from my wool combing.  She's making them play, and then run to the safe house when they see a meteor approaching.  Then she announces they survived the extinction event and they're safe, and goes back to playing for a while.  She told me the wool is very good for protecting them because it's soft and warm and fire proof.  So all the happy little pteranodons are going about their business with their eyes on the skies.

I guess she's heard about the meteorite strike in Russia last week, and had to work out what that meant for the modern world since she knows about the KT extinction event!

p.s. Don't ask me why she's wearing cat ears and a tail, I can't explain that.

Cuties!

I made a photo album of Kayla and Adele's antics this afternoon; you can see it here.

Hippo Gnu Year!

It's 2010 and I'm still catching up on 2009.

Gilad is now officially 5 years old (the cake is evidence that it's all official and everything):

Adele just keeps getting cuter and goofier:

Jeffrey just keeps getting more wonderful:

And I keep getting crazier, as evidenced by the fact that I'm proposing to do two OWLs for this new Term over in the Harry Potter Knit/Crochet House Cup game, for the glory of team Hufflepuff:

The one above is actually 4 different projects representing 4 different magical creatures: 2 pairs of socks (blast-ended scroots and kappas); a lace shawl (dragons); and a hat and mitts (bowtruckles).

This one is a Fair Isle steeked vest, to be knit in some of my hand spun (natural colored or natural dyed) yarns as shown above.

Gilad gets messy

But Oriya gets messier:

I just can't resist them. Of course last night Gilad poured green paint all over one of Sachy's projects (Sachy, needless to say, had left out both the project and the paint, so I wasn't terribly surprised).

Adele is all better, her motor is running again (b-b-b-b-b-b-b), she's crawling all over the place, and generally making trouble. I realized today, Friday, erev Shabbos which is erev Pesach, that I have not made my gefilte fish, nor have I gotten dad's matzah to him yet.

I didn't get into the 3 day spinning class with Judith MacKenzie McCuin I was hoping to take at the MD Sheep and Wool Festival. There are still spaces in the 3 day fiber prep workshop, so I've just sent in my form and check for that in the hopes that I can take it as a second choice, but it's not the same as 3 days of straight spinning technique. Still, it would be great.

Have a chag kasher v'sameach to all who are counting down to Passover!