Monday Medicine

For today's laugh I thought I'd post the picture of a local dentist. My son spotted it when we went to the movie theater next to it. He said, "Ice cream, cookies, malts, and smoothies...I want to go to that dentist!"

Of course, the treats go to a restaurant that is around the corner but from one side you can't really tell so it's rather amusing.

And to add an extra dose today here are some little dentist jokes I came across on http://www.dentalaffairs.com/includes/jokes.htm...

What does the dentist of the year get?...A little plaque

When a new dentist set up in a small town he quickly acquired a reputation of being the latest kind of "Painless" dentist. But a local lad quickly disputed this. "He's a fake ! " he told his mates. "He's not painless at all. When he stuck his finger in my mouth I bit him - and he yelled like anyone else."

Homeschool Talk: Easy Fun Art Projects

A couple of weeks ago the whole family went to the Free Family Festival at the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth. These are really neat! They have docents at different areas with different art activities for the kids to do. The theme was art from A to Z. So they had activities to go with artists with last names from A to Z. Now, there wasn't 26 activities, but it started with A and ended with Z.

I'm posting my kids' works of art with a little description because these activities were so much fun and could easily be done at home for a nice little art lesson.

One was a painting of a dentist office (I can't remember the artist.) The activity was to draw something dental related with white pencil on black paper. My son drew toothpaste on a toothbrush and my daughter drew someone flossing.

They also had self portrait lessons. The docent helped the kids draw the right shape face and told them how to get the eyes in the right spot, etc. They also had mirrors for them to use.

Since the theme was A to Z they had a really fun activity with letters. The child had to make pictures out of different letters of the alphabet. This one was really fun! And it would be so easy to do at home. Here is one of my daughter's. She made a lollipop out of a C and a drum out of an N. Sorry the picture is not horizontal. I have no idea why it turned out vertical once I uploaded it! Just turn your head a little and it will all make sense! :)

They also made Japanese style scrolls that were really nice, but I have no idea where we put those so I don't have any pictures of them. They drew a nature scene on a vertical strip of paper and then glued it to a more decorative and larger vertical strip of paper. (The decorative one could be some nice scrapbooking paper or thick wrapping paper.)

One particularly popular activity was a Piet Mondrain style picture. They had black lines cut to the size of the paper as well as red, yellow, and blue squares and rectangles. I thought this was a great idea. My kids vary a bit in age, but both of them really liked this activity.

Postcard Friendship Friday #21

Welcome to another Postcard Friendship Friday hosted by Marie at http://www.cpaphilblog.com/ Stop by her site to join in or see other postcards.

This is a repost from a couple weeks ago. (I posted before I realized Marie was taking a break from PFF.)

This is Mission San Juan, fourth in my mission series that I've been posting for PFF. It was established in 1731 by Franciscan Friars.

Unfortunately, we could not go inside the church. Apparantly, they've had problems with vandalism inside it so it is now closed to the public. The grounds were beautiful though.

I snapped this pic while we were there...

Time to Wine Thursday

Well, this week hasn't been too bad. Last Friday my husband and I started a little yard project. So, we spent the weekend shoveling dirt and rock from the front yard and hauling it to the back. It was hard work and it was hot, but I'm not complaining about it because I'm glad we did it. The yard looks better now. I will post before and after pics as soon as we get the final few things done.

My one horrible experience came when I was out getting shrubs for the yard. I took my daughter with me to the Plant Shed. We got the shrubs we needed and picked out some flowers. We were admiring all of the bees and butterflies all over the zinnias. Well, apparantly, one of the bees took a liking to Claire's pink shirt and crawled in it. Of course, we didn't know this until she got in the car and sat back to buckle up!

I was backing the car up so I could drive it over to load up our stuff. She started screaming, "My back! My back!" I thought she burned herself on a hot part of the car seat or something, but she just kept yelling. Then she said "A bee bit me!" I threw the car in park and got her out. I took of her shirt. (Which she was NOT happy about!) and shook it out. She kept saying, "It flew away, put my shirt back on!" Well, it hurt really bad. The bees were really big...not your average little honey bees. She just kept crying. I felt so bad for her. She had never been stung by anything like that before.

I have a first aid kit in the van. My minivan has a little "trunk" area in the back that I can raise up and there are 3 shallow compartments. That's where I keep the first aid kit. Of course, we had just come from Lowe's and there were heavy stepping stones and large bags of mulch sitting on it so I couldn't open it! This entire time she's crying and people are looking at us like we're crazy! I started pulling bags of mulch out and heaving stepping stones off of the trunk lid. I finally got to the first aid kit and discovered that I didn't have anything in it for insect bites! I did have an antiseptic wipe that I gave her and that made it feel better.

The up side: she's not allergic to bee stings!

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Why haven't I done this before??

I just discovered something great... Photo collages from Walgreens! Ok, I didn't just discover them. I had heard about them for a while now. I had just never tried making one. Well my friend, Lisa posted a coupon code on her facebook page for a free 8x10 collage. (Thanks, Lisa!) So, I gave it a try and made a collage from our Disney cruise we took in February. I picked it up today. It's so cool! I thought "Why haven't I done this before?" I'm thinking forget scrapbooking...I'm just going to order photo collages for the kids! I still haven't finished their scrapbook pages from that Disney vacation. I just might order some 4x6 or 5x7 collages and stick them in there!

Anyway, here is my collage. I know it will come across kinda small on the blog, but it's an 8x10 in real life so all of the pictures are a good size.

You can also print a title on them. I didn't do it, but now I'm wondering if maybe I should have. Then, I could make one for each of our vacations and put them all in an album or something. I don't know, but I'm sure I'll have fun experimenting with future ones!

Wordless Wednesday: "Tweety"

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Carnival of Homeschooling

This week's carnival of homeschooling is up: http://www.homeschoolbytes.com/homeschool-curriculum/carnival-of-homeschooling-weve-got-style/