Monday, July 15, 2013

We are making lasagna tonight

luckily we won't be needing this pan.. it is actually not in use for food anymore.. and the kittens have taken it over for the night.  I keep telling Minion cat her kitten casserole isn't quite done yet, it's still squirming!  They are so cute - all six fit in there for now... for the blink of an eye.

This was our lasagna, all Mark's idea.  It has a pizza crust rolled out on the bottom and in the middle, without any lasagna noodles.

Esme had three days of school last week, she goes back this Wednesday for three more.  I can already see some differences in her vocabulary and pretend play, as well as her creations on Minecraft.  I told Mark - she is going to rob the imagination of every other child she meets, and we'll see it at home.  She asked me outside the other day what I would say to the children who are losers - and that she was not a loser, because (name of child) helped her open her milk with the chocolate in it, and it was good.  Today, we were discussing what the word 'orbit' means as Mark played the Kerbal spacecraft video game on his computer.  She drew orbits of a planet in her notebook and took it up to Grandma to show her.  I tried to get her to try a Kindergarten reading test on a site another mom had posted - and she was very upset at it because 1.) it was not fun and 2.) it repeated several questions she had already answered and gotten wrong.  She said it would never be fun, she wanted a game - and went back to Minecraft and began digging 'treasure x' spots to bury things in and then dig them up later.

She started at this - a pit full of chickens and glowstones that was her 'treasure pit'


And ended up here, with "worklights" that are machines, and they come on and go off with the lever - she is harvesting chocolate (Cocoa beans) and the lights keep the zombies away while she digs for treasure.  There is also (not pictured) a very tall staircase that she was using to dive down into a small pool of water - for surviving...   I love seeing 'into' her brain with things like this.



 I didn't do much else today - but we plan to make cupcakes tomorrow if all goes well.  I've been knitting a few rows on Esme's pink blanket and cleaning things here and there - took all the unused greenhouse plants outside and built a bit in Minecraft myself..   I have tomorrow off, too.




1 comment:

mrspao said...

Aww your kitten lasagna is so cute!