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Saturday, before breakfast, Luke got out the fish tank cleaning tools and started cleaning away. He wanted to use kleenex to wipe off the algae from the structures, I tried to convince him that only mamas could do that. He wanted to siphon to clean the bottom ("vacuuming!") but we needed to let some water sit before I'd let him. Then he went to the piano (the "pananno", sounds like banano) and played, looked at the mechanism, decided it was broken and found a bunch of screw drivers. When I wouldn't let him do that, he found the digital clock in the basement (he probably remembered stories of his daddy's escapades with clocks) and tried to fix it. Then he got out the eggs, soy milk, oil and made a "recipe". I have told him that we are not allowed to use eggs except for recipes out of cookbooks, but he was adamant. While I was folding laundry, he cracked 5 eggs and mixed everything up (in the salad spinner...) I didn't even know he could...

Luke told his teacher today that he was a golden retriever. OK, she said. She's used to Luke. Yeah, I'm a golden retriever because I can retrieve gold things from the playground! That's genius! she said. (Apparently a leprechaun visited the playground and deposited gold painted rocks all over. Luke says we're going to have a solving party to solve the mystery of the rocks. Sounds like fun, I suppose.)

This is Amanda's rocket ship.  She noticed that two red triangles make one blue triangle, so she turned it into a rocket.  Then she asked me to take a picture and told me what to write. We love magnatiles. I think the kids party with them at least 15 minutes, probably more, every day.  Unfortunately, they haven't been available because of floods in Thailand. We hope (for many reasons) that the floods recede soon...

This is Amanda's favorite food, I think.  Wash and dry the kale well, drizzle with olive oil, bake in a 350 oven for 20 minutes, turning once.  Sprinkle with sea salt and enjoy.