Like the surface of Mercury, that is. Our TV (well, Kodi) was forecasting temperatures of 10000 F for the week. Better stock up on sunscreen.
Apr 10 2016
There’s a bathroom on the right!
We had a little dance party comprised of with music with frequently misheard lyrics, which included: The Go-Go’s: “Islands of seals” (Our Lips Are Sealed) U2: “Shamu the Mysterious Whale” (“She moves in mysterious ways.”) Rusted Root: “Sammy and the Whale” (“Send me on my way.”). Aretha Franklin: “You make me feel like a rash …
Mar 14 2016
Pi night 2016!
Nikola was clued into the Pi Night 2016 (3/14/16, get it?) at Hamilton Middle School, where she will likely be attending in 6th grade next year. Some former West Woodland students and parents told her about it and she was very excited to join, even though she isn’t quite a student there yet. She dressed …
Feb 08 2016
Monkey!
Gung hee fat choy! Happy Year of the Monkey. The children woke up to find li see envelopes at the breakfast table. This weekend we had hoped to see a dragon dance performance at Uwajimaya as we had in years past, but apparently it had been in Seattle last weekend and was at the Bellevue …
Feb 06 2016
Brownian motion!
Alton decided that he wanted to play baseball this spring. To get in the spirit, Shaynee signed him up for some weekend baseball clinics at the Boys & Girls Club. 16 guys with a pretty broad range of skills. He was pretty apprehensive as always, but there were several boys from his class there. And …
Feb 05 2016
Talent night 2016!
Tonight was the 6th annual West Woodland Talent Night with Art and Lego Expo. As always, well attended. And more grammatically correct. Nikola played a clarinet duet with Jane. Monse played a piano piece. Siena sang. There was a good breadth of acts (about 46 total!). Not like the other year when half the groups …
Jan 31 2016
Quest!
Nikola has been intrigued with playing Dungeons & Dragons. Her teacher Ms Williams (who uses games in a lot of her teaching) created a D&D-like game for the students to learn about food chemistry (such as using the group’s individual skills to figure out how to feed the yeast monster). Apparently it has been very …
Jan 24 2016
Chunderblog reborn!
Aloha! Welcome to the newly reborn Chunderblog! Not exactly reborn, but perhaps rejuvenated? In its early days, the Chunderblog began as a means to update our friends and family about happenings in the Chunder household. However, the WordPress software became almost too much to run and nearly unusable on my little home server. Updates became …
Apr 19 2015
Inky!
We stopped for lunch at the Camano Island Marketplace. Nikola was drawing flowers on her arm and one of the women working at the deli asked her to draw one on her. Nikola inked a sunny scene with flowers and butterflies on her arm. “This really brightens up my day,” she said. “I was having …
Mar 23 2015
Pizza night!
Friday night has become pizza night. Cheap and fun to do with the kids. Trader Joe’s pizza dough saves the step of making our own. Plus, they also have gluten free pizza crackers for those who don’t do gluten. Alton likes straight cheese. Nikola likes mushrooms and olives (her tastes are very much her daddy’s). …
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