Tuesday, April 26, 2011

The Science of the Plagues (for Passover)

The Peabody natural history museum together with the two local jewish day schools (Ezra Academy and Southern CT Hebrew Academy) hosted a program to teach young jewish children about the science of the plagues of passover. There were live frogs, animals pelts, blood "making", a hail machine, crickets and cricket noise makers and more. Zachary and Zoe had a great time and learned something too. At the end we went on a hike and learned that poop can tell us a lot about the animal that made it!
Zoe checks out a cricket through the microscope.
Zachary and Zoe check off the plagues they have already learned about so far.
Zachary's oragami heart.

Making blood: water (plasma) red dye, rice (platelets), red beads (red blood cells), white beads (white blood cells), sprinkles (nutrients). Very cool!

Saturday, April 23, 2011

celebrating Daddy's birthday

We celebrated Daddy's birthday in Maryland and in Connecticut! Any excuse to eat cake together, we'll take it. Zachary, Zoe and their cousins enjoyed rainbow cake together and didn't they and GG look cute with Daddy/Uncle Glenn?


Back in Maryland on Daddy's "actual" birthday, April 4, we had cupcakes and Daddy got his presents - a new lens for the camera and a new book. We all enjoyed celebrating, and Daddy had a great birthday!

Friday, April 22, 2011

meeting cousin Peyton

GG and all her grandbabies! It took some lollypops but we are very excited to have this picture of everyone with GG and Peyton enjoyed her first dum dum lolly! Just kidding.

Peyton Elizabeth Maller was born on March 16, 2011 in Maryland. We went to visit her on April 1 and we were ALL so excited. Zachary said he had butterflies in his stomach all morning at school (we picked up the kids early to head down to Maryland) and Zoe could hardly wait to hold Peyton and teach her all about brides. Zoe was truly in love with her new cousin, and really enjoyed holding her (all weekend), and helping at diaper time, a real Mama in training.
Zachary also gave Peyton some snuggles, although he was a little more interested in playing trains with Joshy then changing Peyton's diapers and holding her. Zachary helped Josh set up lots of train tracks, and both Josh and Ethan enjoyed having their big cousins visit.
Hungry hippos was a big hit ... although it was also very noisy for the grown-ups. The kids had fun and the hippos got full!

How beautiful is baby Petyon, what a sweet face - reminded us a little of her big brother Ethan and a tiny bit of her cousin Zoe. She is such a good baby and Aunt Betsy sure did enjoy snuggling her over the weekend.