New! Improved! Up-to-the-minute posts!

I've been changing things up here today. The biggest change is that I've figured out how to post by email from my cellphone, as you can see below. So, maybe, since my cellphone is with me virtually 24-7, I can keep this a bit more up-to-date. Correspondingly, I also may be transitioning more to a scrapbook format, with more pictures and fewer words. On the other hand, since previous posts have been few and far between, maybe (hopefully) with more frequent posts, there will actually  be more words. Time will tell.

A few words about the past week;

Today we enjoyed going to the nature center for a pancake breakfast and to see how maple syrup is made. Did you know it takes 40 gallons of maple sap to make one gallon of syrup? And that syrup can be made from any of the trees in the maple family, including the box elder tree? Just a few of the pearls of wisdom we gleaned today. Another: pancakes come slowly at all-you-can-eat fundraiser breakfasts. Oh well, they tasted good.

Friday I took Viktor to the children's museum in Milwaukee for his "Valentine date". We had a lot of fun, just the two of us.

Tuesday, Eddie and I saw a local performance of Treasure Island, and had a grand time. It has been quite a while since I saw a live play ... and the Q&A after the performance was almost as entertaining as the show itself.

Some other things we have been talking about this week ... fish, what kinds there are, and whether yellowfin tuna would make a good pet (not unless you have an aquarium the size of a house).

We have been playing a lot of computer games lately. Some of our most recent favorites are at physics.com: Civiballs, Castle Crusher, Roly Poly Monsters, and more. As seen in one of the photos below, the whiteboards at our house also get a lot of use, often to create games that are variations on the theme of our most popular computer game of the day.

We visited the bookstore Thursday to pick up the last two in our current series of warrior cats books by Erin Hunter. Couldn't pass up the opportunity to pick up some games, and toys as well as a math workbook for Remy. He picked it out all by himself. It has a shark on th front. Okay. I wonder if it will be used at all? I also grabbed a tidbit from the checkout line that showed how to make Kirigami flowers, which we had fun cutting yesterday.