The Blimp

 Charlie and Alice like to play in the empty bathtub. They make noises into cups. Pretty cute.

 We watched Tinkerbell and the Great Fairy Rescue while Paul was gone on a scout campout. Grace immediately went to work building a fairy house as soon as the movie was over.

 One of the other adults brought dutch oven manicotti for all the leaders at the campout. Paul ate better than we did!

 We had the elders over for dinner one night. Good thing we're facebook friends so I knew a few hours in advance that it was one of their birthdays! I had already planned to serve cake as the dessert, so it was providential. Plus, Dillon's 21st birthday was the very next day, so I felt like I was really doing it for him.

 For career day at school, Grace dressed up as an inventor. She loves to invent! The obvious inventor garb includes goggles, colorful shoes, a colorful shirt (so you won't notice if you get stuff on it), and jeans with a hole in the knee. She's easy to please.

 She said the goggles broke at school. "But duh, I'm an inventor, so I figured out a way to fix them!"

 Such a cute baby.

 Alice was proud of the painting she did at preschool, but insisted on covering it up with letter magnets.

 I went on a walk with the kids the other day, and we saw this otherworldly sight in the sky. It's kind of eerie to just see it floating slowly all alone in the white sky.

 The weather was fun and foggy, but then started to sprinkle.

 By the time we got home, the blimp was right over our house. It made a humming/breathing sound.

 You can kind of see it above Alice in this sideways picture. Paul looked it up and saw that the Navy blimp was doing aerial mapping experiments over Baltimore and the surrounding areas. Grace saw it at recess, and decided to do her assigned news report on it.

 Cute sisters before the primary program.

Such pretty girls - Grace wore sponge curlers all night, and Alice actually let me use a curling iron on her this morning!