Wednesday, September 23, 2009

Artist and Engineer

On Wednesday John made paper bag animal puppets.


This is the bag he made when I was the "creative director." (He decided where to put all the green marker drawings, like the mouth, cheeks, and forehead.)

This is the bag he created when he was the creative director!

I was impressed in the evening when John engineered a ramp out of Duplo for his taxi cab. Chris had shown him once and John remembered how to build it. He has to use exactly the right number of the right size of Duplo blocks, a certain number of rows in from the edge, then turn it upside down against the stair step. Then the taxi cab can zoom down the ramp and across the room.



And this is a photo of yet one more reason why I don't like to take the trash to the curb when Chris is out of town on Wednesdays. We have the biggest, weirdest bugs here in the humid South!

5 comments:

  1. I feel your pain on the bugs. I am NOT a fan of big weird bugs. In fact, I woke Chris up a couple weeks ago to kill a giant centipede in our den. I'm usually pretty independent and do things for myself, but on that one, I pulled the, "But you're the man!" card! :-)

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  2. Mary's hair seems like it is getting lighter. Am I correct?

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  3. Hey, Katherine, that is a really pretty rug that Mary is sitting on! And a pretty girl too!

    Alicia :)

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  4. Elaine: You're right! Mary was born with nearly black hair and it has been lightening ever since.

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  5. Alicia: Thanks! And also thank you for your earlier tip about the lights being left on in the Odyssey killing the battery. We will be vigilant!

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