Making Biscuits

 

Biscuits from scratch - on a weeknight. Serves as entertainment for mom, toddler and provides a wealth of extra calories for all.

Rope

 

Watching the Dragon Parade

Happy Chinese New Year! Yeah, ok, I know, it was like 3 weeks ago. And was a very cold morning in Chinatown when they had the dragon parade. Zach of course was super psyched because he'd seen it first on Caillou. I was super psyched when I realized we could watch the festivities from inside while eating a delicious meal of faux meat.

Lilia was a bit grumpy, but you can't really blame her given how cold it was outside.

Dinosaurs and other bones

Free Sunday morning at the Harvard Museum of Natural History prompted some interesting questions. Like, "does it hurt when it eats us?" (looking at whatever giant swimming thing that is back there). Also found a large sulfur rock that matched Zach's sweater, and a couple rocks from space. But really, it was all about those dinosaur bones. 

Friendship

Only mild encouragement was needed for this. 

Ryan's Band-aid

 

Drumlin Farms

 

(Rakes)

Last week included 2 spring-like days. Unfortunately they fell on Thursday and Friday. But I was determined to get outside on Saturday, even though we'd fallen squarely back into winter.

So, dragged my family out to Drumlin Farms in Lincoln, where the outdoor walking is punctuated by warmer indoor spots, like a greenhouse with sprouting stuff,

and a couple of animal barns.

 

Along the way also saw some nifty caged birds of prey, one of which was chowing on a dead mouse. Whiskers and all. Also got to check out some roadkill pelts, including Zach's favorite animal du jour, the skunk.

 

Self-dressing attempt

Fail.

 

Snow Hats

 

 

The Dishwasher

My husband is a genius. Not only does he double as a battery-free portable calculator, but he somehow managed to salvage the dishwasher (one we inherited from the prior owners of our new house) avoiding recurring kitchen flooding, despite the following hurdles:

a) having no prior experience with dishwasher repair (hence the laptop)
b) getting the wrong replacement gasket from LG
c) having spare parts after putting everything back together.

 

It's been about a month now, and has been completely functional since. Though, a word of general advice: don't buy an LG dishwasher if you can help it.

Zach helped too. (That is a plastic toy c-clamp he's using, not a real one.)