Just in case you think I can think of absolutely nothing other than preparing for our trip…
I was clearing off our catch-all bookcase and gave JediBoy a handful of coins for his pig. Imagine my surprise when he told me the bank was so full, he couldn’t fit them in! So… we dumped the pig. It’s a sweet porcelain pig that was my mothers, and has a real cork in the nose that you pull out with a metal ring. I’d forgotten that I started the pig for him with the money my mom had kept in it - a pile of Kennedy half-dollars. Here’s today’s impromptu lesson in the value of coins, and the comparative size of a pile of 100 pennies to a pile of 20 nickels, 10 dimes or 4 quarters. We talked about foreign money as we rooted out a handful of coins from my dad, and about the age of coins too. I pulled a jar from the recycle bin and we filled it full, counting as we went. I marked it with his name, the date and the amount, and put the freshly emptied pig back in place.
He’s also been reading to me all day - thrilled with himself now that he can read most of his Sesame Street paperbacks and all of our lovely old Maisy books, which I assured him his baby sister will love as much as he did. We did some watercolor painting last night and some beading this morning. We’re getting ready to go out for dinner - one last highchair-free dinner - with our friends tonight, and I took advantage of the time to sit down and check my Google reader.
This was my favorite find - a link from Whedonesque led me to a neat film clip. It’s from a tv show created by Tim Minear and Ben Queen, cancelled after only 6 episodes (the Nathan Fillion jinx? watch out, Desperate Housewives!) which followed several families in an illegal cross-country road race. The clip is an amazing blend of live shots, green screen, CGI and other techniques that creates a completely seamless scene - no jumping from angle to angle - which is unheard of in road races! I never saw the show and know very little about the plot, but the scene just made my eyes pop.
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