Archives for 2013

I can’t believe I have a first grader. Yesterday was Boo’s first day of first grade. This morning we had this conversation:

Boo: Can you drop me off in the carpool line like the big kids?
Me: Ok. But am I allowed to come in for morning assembly?
Boo: Only if you sneak in the back so it doesn’t look like you walked me in.

Me: What was the most exciting part of the day?
Boo: Eating lunch with the big kids.
Me: Anything else?
Boo: Being able to go to the big hall bathroom.

Ok wow. She’s officially a big girl.

Now I just have to keep up with recording all of the daily happenings in our little diary we keep in the car like last year.

I couldn’t sleep at all last night.  Maybe too much caffeine at dinner. It was super dark as I lay there and I was trying to come up with a constellation idea for all the technology in our master bedroom.

The only constellations that really make sense to me are the dippers (dipping spoons as Boo calls them) and the snake (hydra)…..but when I look up at the sky I see thousands of dipping spoons and hydras.  I don’t know how they came up with all those other pictures from the stars. So it makes sense that the lights in my room could make up a donut, right?

Boo loves using the Star Walk app at night……holding it up to the sky and registering where the stars are. Your smartphone or iPad knows exactly where you are and holding it up to the sky: what’s on your screen is what’s actually in the sky.  It’s pretty much the coolest app we’ve ever purchased:

Tons of planet information:

Constellation info:

Even satellites and space stations:

Hope you are having a great Labor Day!