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Today, I have a few of my favorite pictures from all over the summer.
Here they are:

Smore!!

The pool is fun!

Legos!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You're hungry right now,

aren't you?

Dooby dooby do wah

Dooby dooby do wah

Agent P

And we couldn't forget THE CHICKEN!

bye, Ben

Rock Painting

{Edited by Mom to add commentary & some pictures of the actual children... you're welcome, grandmas & aunts!!}
We painted rocks over 3 weeks ago
but I did a post today.
we had to wash the rocks first.
{This is the first time I can remember Evan sticking with something longer than Ben!  He washed & washed & scrubbed for over a 1/2 hour, but eventually he gave in to the temptation to just *play* in the water, just like Ben.  As expected, they both ended up soaking wet.  It is awesome not to mess with swim diapers or worse, bloated regular diapers!}

Anyway,
List of rock objects we made:
mom's: a ladybug, a rock with the word "home" written on it.
Evan's: various very colorful but abstract rocks, a ladybug
Ben's: A space ship (with painted-rock alien), A big rock with a paw print and the word "dogs" on it,
A purple jewel with glitter paint, A ladybug
So anyway, here's some photos:

 Evan's other rocks: butterfly, caterpillar, and orange...thing

(left to right) Evan's lady bug, his abstract rock, my gem,

mom's "home"rock, and my chiken nugget rock.

 Home is where the chicken nugget is!

Now which one of these is not like the others?

(hint: look to the RIGHT!)

Bye,Ben

{And a couple more pics from Mom.  That last one is the TWELFTH shot I took - that is how long it takes to get both of them looking & smiling at the same time!}

Space collages

Yesterday, for our final crafty monday, we made space collages. {Idea from here: Watercolor Outer Space Project}
First we made watercolor paintings that weren't of anything but were very colorful.
then, we let them dry and cut circles (planets) out of them.
Then we glued the planet circles onto black paper which we had splattered with white paint so that
there would be a background of stars.
the results were awesome, and really looked like space.
Photos:

 Me painting

 My painting (unfinished)

 Evan loves painting perry pictures!!

 Mom's planet source paper

Mom's completed project

 Evan's planets

My solar system, complete with

comet and asteroids!

Also, I started 4th grade!

I had a great first day!

Bye, Ben



Peanut butter bars

last what's cooking wensday, we made delicous peanut butter chocolate chip bars.
They were extremely delicious!!

The recipe is adapted from here: Peanut Butter Chocolate Bars

We did change the recipe by mixing in chocolate chips instead of making chocolate filling.
I seriously reccomend that you make some of these so you can experience the extreme delicousness.
here's the pictures:

 Baking is fun!!

About to be baked!

Also, I will start 4th grade tomorrow!

bye, Ben

Quite a while ago,  I made a marble run.
Here's the pictures of it:

 Ben has a cardboard tube on his head

Ben has a cardboard tube on his head

Ben has a cardboard tube on his head

and he keeps it there all day.

(this probably isn't funny to you

unless you have a lot of

lory bergner CDs but I couldn't resist)

marbles in action !!!

State Fair!!!!

a while ago,  we went to the state fair.
I had a great time.
Photos:

Evan wanted to go on...

Dinosaur Ride: check

 ATV ride: check

 Awesome airplane ride: check

No, there wasn't a chicken ride,

we just also saw a metal chicken sculpture

in the horticulture building.

PS: did you notice the new header?

I will have some posts about those robots soon.

Evan's birthday update

My mom uploaded some new pictures from Evan's birthday :

 The cake itself!!

 Singing happy birthday... Blowing out the candles...

When are we going to EAT ???

Bye, Ben

More updates from Mom:

Mini Mighty!  "Where's your cat??"

It's an alien!!

Pointing out each & every vehicle on his Thomas pillow case.  =)

Dogs barking "Happy Birthday"?  Thanks a lot, Grandma Pete! Thanks a lot.

Baking the birthday cake is part of the fun!

There is lawning to be done!