Megan home. :) Modem broken. :( Be back tomorrow...

No Sunburns Even!

Betcha can't guess where we went today...

and tried to steal our football too... sneaky little thing! :)

I'm a lucky girl! Be jealous.

Great day with my boys! Tomorrow will be even better... stay tuned.

Veni, Vidi, DaVinci

Today Ben & I went our local Museum of Science & Industry to see the touring DaVinci exhibition. The exhibit is copyrighted, so no photos allowed, but it was a great time. I enjoyed the Mona Lisa exhibit the most, I really hope I make it to the Louvre one day to see her in person.

After 4 hours of exploring the DaVinci exhibit, we spent an hour or so taking in the rest of the museum...

Ben tried to pinch his fingers off making a "storm system" in this exhibit...

He showed some "empathy" for his old mama...

Aced some quizzes...

Showed me what he'll look like when he is in between Megan & Jordan's ages...

And what he'll look like when he's 2 years older than his oldest grandparent is now...

And how he'll look when he's Michael's age... (I'm still 19 days, 2 hours, 36 minutes away from that milestone, thankyouverymuch).

He consulted with Zoltar...

And found out he has a healthy BMI, at least by this scale...

I mean who doesn't love a scale that starts out at -3 lbs. (of course, I STILL didn't get on it!)

He tried to build an earthquake resistant building (unsuccessfully)...

And withstood Hurricane strength winds...

When we were done exploring the museum, we went to see Diary of a Wimpy Kid. It was cute! Especially for a middle schooler & a mom of a middle schooler.

We went to theater close to the museum, rather than our regular theater. Ya know the slide show before the previews? The fun quotes & quizzes? When we got there this slide was on the screen. Then this slide came up...

Then this one...
I think I've mentioned before how early I insist on getting to the theater.... So we got to enjoy this entertaining slideshow for half an hour. (Thank Goodness for internet on my phone).

Before we stopped at the grocery store on the way home we had one more stop to make...

Yeah!!! I can see his eyes again! :)

Al Fresco

Tonight was such a beautiful night that we couldn't let the little fact that we don't have patio furniture stop us from a wonderful dinner al fresco.

Hope ya'll had a lovely Sunday!

Another Gorgeous Day in the Sunshine State

81* & beautiful sunshine! Love it! Today we went to the University of Tampa to watch one of Jordan's former teammates play in a college game...

Then we went to the baseball field next door to watch her high school's baseball team play in a tournament.
The only thing that could have made the day better is if one of these games took place at sunset. Sunset over Tampa from UT is a beautiful thing. Instead, we'll watch the sunset over our retention pond lake while we grill some burgers. That's a beautiful thing too.

Email from Mom...

So, I got this email from my mom today...

Our I-Pads just arrived. Yes I-Pads. I have my own. The grandkids will really love me now.

Mom

Um, yeah. The kids' Spring Break starts today. I'm thinking Ben will want to spend the whole week at "Camp Ownie".

TAO

Great lunch today with an old friend. It really is sad how quickly you can loose touch with friends that you don't "have to" see often. Especially when they don't have a FB (nudge, nudge).

Anyway, got done with lunch & ran some errands. It was still too early to leave to get Ben, but I really didn't have time to go home & get anything accomplished. Then I remembered that I have Jane Eyre in the car that I'm supposed to be reading for book club. I've had a hard time getting into it, so I thought a forced hour of reading might do me some good. So, I make the 30 minute drive up to the school, park the car (first spot in the car line...SCORE!) & read for about 45 minutes or so. When my eyes started burning, I set the alarm on my phone & closed my them for a few minutes. (Oh! How I loooooove car naps!) So, I zonk out (seriously, I think there may have been drool involved) & wake up in time to hear the afternoon announcements over the intercom.

After about 5 minutes, Ben comes out & we get on on merry way, discussing his day & the Relay for Life event his school is having tomorrow. About 5 minutes into the drive home... I see it...

The Antennaed One! Staring at me with his antennae twitching. In the car! With me! For AT LEAST and hour & 1/2! While I was sleeping! With my mouth open! OMG!!!

I wasn't in a place where I could let him out & he was too big to squish, so I drove the rest of the way home, keeping one eye on the road & another on him & yet another on Ben who, in his bravery, was practically falling out the passenger door in an effort to get as far away from TAO as possible. Gotta love the chilvary of a 12 year old!

Anyway, we made it home safely & without any contact with TAO. I then set him free to live another day amongst the pollen.

He fared a lot better that this little flying friend I encountered while waiting for Ben at drum lessons last week.

I was able to capture one of this little guy's last living moments on my camera phone, just before I indavertantly squished him while trying to let him out my car window. R.I.P. Ladybug, R.I.P.