Kid Projects

To fully prepare for oncoming parenthood, we borrowed two children this afternoon and attempted to keep them entertained for mutiple hours. We must confess this was much easier than borrowing two random children, being that those two young hooligans refer to us as Auntie Anne and Uncle Eric. For those of you that attended our wedding, Melissa was the young flower girl, while her older brother Nathan rooted her on from the aisle. First, we attempted to get quite muddy watching baby ducks down on the resevoir (pictures of the brood soon to come) and snagged some water and mud to sort through at the house. You'll see Nate with his waterbug catching equipment (spoons, jars, ice cube trays and straws in place of eyedroppers) We managed to find several very large and feisty dragonfly larvae along with water boatmen and a few snails. It is suspected that the lochness monster also lies at the bottom of the roughly 2 ft deep pond - however, Anne was not quite up to wading clear out to check.

After Nate fed his very hungry new pets, we decided to make chocolate chip cookies. Chef Melissa did a fine job and definitely felt the need to quality test the dough prior to baking. All members of the household (including the parental units of our abductees, who arrived in the early evening to check our progress) were appreciative of the generous cookie sizes. During a pizza session, we watched "Bee Movie," which was quite cute and entertaining. For those of you wondering about the dessert first, then dinner order......the cookie selection amounted to small taste-testing prior to the meat lovers and
supreme getting out of the oven. However, it was no holds barred after suppertime!