Korbin's birthday cupcakes - lightsabers! For his 9th birthday we celebrated with cupcakes and friends at a park nearby.
Jeff teaching Korbin how to use a knife
As a Bear (3rd Grade Cub Scout) Korbin is at the age to use a pocket knife. During den time they carved a bar of soap. He is pretty careful with his knife and does well. If you remember in December we entered a photo in a "Best Popcorn Pix" contest. His entry was one of the winners!!! He is overjoyed to be getting a Nintendo DSlite. He always sees other boys (and girls) who have them and we told him if he wanted to enter to try for it, we'd let him have it if he won. From his popcorn sales he earned a free ticket to watch the Houston Aeros play hockey. He wanted it to be a father/son deal, so I bought Jeff a ticket to go with it. He said the seats were great and both of them really got into it and enjoyed being there. After the game, Korbin was able to go down with other scouts to take a shot on the goal. Too bad we forgot the camera!
Kailyn is in the midst of selling Girl Scout cookies. She has earned the initial prize by selling over 160 boxes of cookies! She has a goal of 400 boxes... so at this point, she has 149 to go! It's fun for me to circle the prizes she has earned as she goes. I cleared out my "craft room" as it had become a junk room. (or overflow, depending on how you look at it.) It will be the cookie room whenever the cookies get here. I volunteered to be the cookie manager, therefore keeping any cases of cookies at my house until picked up by the girls who sold them or until we finish our cookie booths, etc. Last year they were against all the walls in my living room and we had four boxes of cookies fall at the mercy of the 2 yr old cookie monster. This year I'm locking them in a room with a key. She's too smart for the bathroom locks too, so I will replace the door handles with the outer-door variety. I have an extra one I keep on a storage attic we keep Christmas presents in.
Meet Julie (& Audrey)
This is Julie the rat. She is very sweet. Too bad their tails aren't furry like a squirrel, people would like them more! I'm not big on holding them, I simply don't have the time, but Kailyn is just giddy over them both. We got Julie late Monday night as the pet store closed. Audrey, her sister, came home with us today. While the mice, gerbils and hamsters are cuter, the rats bond with humans better and bite less. Kailyn is always begging to hold her. Her sister, Audrey, looks very much like Julie. I think Audrey's head is darker and the fur around their tails are different colors.
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