Lego Camp Day 5

The final day of Lego camp was equally as interesting as all the rest. The kids made things that could go on a zip cord. Jacob had fun showing off his creation of the day. It was a great week and I will miss the teacher (and the 15 hours of free time).

Lego Camp Day 4

It was robot day. The kids built motorized robots and many were very creative. Most of the kids did remote control but Jacob wired his to work without the remote control. Todays lesson was about gears and meshing.

Lego Camp Day 3

Today was car day, they made remote control cars. They had to pass the same stress test that nothing falls off when you turn over, shake or drop from a foot. Jacob's passed and he earned his man. We will see what tomorrow brings:)

Lego Camp Day 2

The group airport.

Jacob's contribution to the airport.


Jacob's plane.

A couple movies of Jacob's plane in action.

Lego Camp Day 1

Jacob said I took a picture of his car upside down, the rocket goes on the bottom. Oops.

Jacob is taking this Lego camp from a company called Play-Well TEKnologies which teaches kids engineering principles through the use of Lego. For classes in your area go to www.play-well.org.

Day one at Lego camp focused on cars and houses. I did not get to take a picture of Jacob's house but he said that was ok. His car had to pass a stress test: turn it over to see if any piece fell off, shake it to see if any piece fell off and drop it from a foot off the ground to see if it stayed together. If your car passed all three you got a Lego man to put in it. Jacob's car did pass the stress test. I have included a little movie of his car run.

Tammie's Baby Shower

From left to right: Mandi, Deedee, Tammie and me. A portion of the book club.
We all enjoyed the Snoopy and Peanuts gang theme.

Tammie's baby will be well cared for, she received many nice gifts.

I won again. I should play the lottery. The game I won had you identify children's quotes with the book it came from. My obsession with children's books finally paid off.

The shower was at Truxon's American Bistro in Westchester. The food was great and the service was excellent. I will definetly be going back.

La Brea Tar Pits

I did not have cooperative subjects today.
My only good pictures are of things no longer alive.



Auntie Thea, Grandpa, Jacob and I went to the Page Museum at the La Brea Tar Pits today. We had a pretty good day. I was afraid of the school bus invasion but it was mostly quiet. Jacob managed to sit through both little films and he even said they were interesting. He was really looking forward to watching the volunteers dig in Pit 91 but it was not in use at this time. And then he did not want to leave until he saw some digging in the tar pits. But we managed to make it to the car with not much fan fare. The traffic going home for all parties was probably the worst of it.