St Patrick’s Day 2012

For St. Patrick’s Day we had Burger King’s green ketchup, so cool!  

Then we went to CP’s night St Patrick’s Day parade.

 

fun to wear our festive necklaces and glow wear. I love that he agreed to wear that hat again this year.

E watching the parade at the curb

all the entries in the parade had to have at least 5 strings of lights on them. Love the horses, too!

love this pic that local paper took of our downtown square – a sea of green!  and this guy’s drum was spinning around on its own as he played it and I especially love the lights on it!

Fun that St Pat’s was on a Saturday this year, but we just stayed home.

Ethan’s 9th Birthday

I wanted to do something new for Ethan’s birthday this year. I set up a yarn maze throughout the house. When he woke up on his birthday this guy was outside his door.

 

I strung yellow(of course) yarn starting at his room then the bathroom

and downstairs to the living room

I needed to keep it in these rooms so our dog didn’t get tangled up in it. He doesn’t really venture into the living room when no one is sitting in there.

first gift was these awesome Happy Birthday glasses

on to the bathroom   play the video below of Ethan…

It took him about 20 minutes to get to the end, which was iCarly soundtrack.

look at that ball of yarn from the maze! he found the birthday glasses, March of the Penguins dvd (used), 2 penguin stuffed animals and iCarly cd.

 

for his bday dinner I made these little penguin meatballs and cheese stuffed breadsticks. The penguins were supposed to have a yellow pepper front bib, but it wouldn’t stay. And he didn’t eat them either.

we had family over at 7pm on Monday – his actually birthday

It was a Penguin themed birthday this year

 

Ethan with his Ga

and his Poppy

I didn’t get a picture of him with my dad, oops! My mother was missed at the party. She had to go down to be with her mother for the week. She told me not to change the party for her.

 

awesome ‘9’ balloon with 9 – dollar bills attached from his Ga & Poppy

 he opened up our gift first – he was really wondering what it could be

 

he got an ipod!! It wasn’t the ipod touch that he wanted, but the 5th gen nano we got used off of Amazon.  He did say he would like the ipod that takes video and this one does! It is much better for kids than the current nano that is the small square. That is way too little for kids to use, he would have lost it!

Mario Party 9 from my sister’s family and it had just come out the day before his birthday.

books from my parents

Itunes gift card to buy songs and movies for his ipod

T playing with E’s new Perplexus game

the cake – 10” is too big for us. I added the penguin erasers to it.

Happy Birthday to my sweet, sweet boy! I love him so much!

Ethan’s first science fair project

So now that E’s in 3rd grade, he has to do a science project. It had to be a question that you had to prove with some sort of answer. I basically googled ‘3rd grade science fair project’ and this was one of the first ones. It didn’t look too complicated, but it did end up costing more than we expected.

It was to prove if flowers drank cold water or warm water faster. We used red food coloring for the warm water – sitting on a candle warmer, and blue food coloring in the cold water vase.  

Ethan writing out one of the parts for the project board.

it was quite a test for me to not get so involved in how neat it would look, but I was the one that layed it all out.   

We bought the board thru his school, he chose yellow, of course.

Ethan is so by the rules and didn’t think he was allowed to type up anything and print up. Well, we know now for next year that is preferred. At the science fair most of them were printed up. The stick on letters, we ran out of some big letters, can you tell?

He had to present and explain it to his class, I think just a quick 2-3 minute presentation. Then answered 2 questions from his teacher and 1 from a classmate. He said it wasn’t a big deal and volunteered to go up to get it done. I think I stressed about it more than I needed to.

Answer :  cold water drinks it faster

Now what will he do next year??