The Princess and The Pea

One of the girl's favorite times is to have movie night with Nate. They love to make a "nest" and all lay on the floor together and watch a movie. Last night Rori decided it was time to be together as a family and watch a movie. Rori and Gracie got every blanket in the house and made themselves a very soft nest.

As you can see the pile was pretty big. So instead of watching a movie I told them the story of the Princess and the Pea. Rori still thinks she could feel the pea. (I guess she must be a princess.)

As for Gracie she thought she was playing peek-a-boo. (Yes, I think Gracie is a princess too...just a bit rougher than Rori.)

The Saver of Snails

A few days ago while I was out weeding I got out the slug and snail bait and was sprinkling it on the the flower beds. Of course Rori wanted to know what I was doing, and I told her "killing snails." She was devastated and quickly went in the house got a bowl and began collecting the snails from the flower bed. I asked her what she was doing and she told me "saving the snails." (Which according to Nate was a lot worse for the snails than eating poison.)

Sure enough for three days Rori fed the snails (my flowers), gave them baths (I am sure they loved), and let them out of the bowl for a little while each day. Not to mention made sure they were held everyday. Until on the third day the snails got smart enough to realized they could climb out of the bowl and leave (lucky snails).

I wish I could tell you that no snails were harmed in the making of this blog but I am not sure that is a correct statement, so at least I can tell you they were well fed for a few days and just maybe Rori saved them for the awful fate of poison.

Textures

Yesterday Rori wanted to make "rough paper" I asked her what "rough paper" was and she told me she would show me when she was done. So I went about doing my stuff and when she was done she came to show me what she had made. She took a lunch sack ripped it up into pieces, got each of the pieces wet (so that the stuff would stick) then she went through the spice cupboard looking for textures. This is what she came up with...

I thought she did a pretty good job find such different textures. Now the trick for you is to see if you can name all the spices she made into textures. There are 6 different spices, Good Luck!