Random update

I don't really have much to report, but I'll post some catch up pictures anyway.  

For the last couple months, another first grade mom and i have been working on a quilt for the school's fund raising auction.  We had the kids all color a quilt block, and then we sewed them together and had it professionally quilted.  The quilter was either inspired by our great design, or took pity on us and did a great custom job, going around all the hand prints and adding hearts here and there.  It looks so nice!  Now all we have to do is bind it, and hope it sells for a lot.  Here's Parker's square.  I'll show a pic of the whole semi-completed quilt in another post.

Buddy the fish is doing well (knock on wood).  We've upgraded his tank to one that is lighted, heated, filtered and planted.  Bob has him trained to eat from a syringe.  After some tummy issues, we had to switch his food to tiny pellets, but they sink, so you have to give them to him one by one or he misses them and the foul up the tank.  We also have to soak them first, so the dropper makes them easier to handle.  Buddy gets very aggressive and bites the dropper if you put it in the water...I'm pretty sure we could get him to 'jump' up for his food if we wanted to, but that doesn't seem very nice. 

It's warming up here.  I noticed today that the Angel Trump that we had in the garage for the winter has a couple big flowers on it.  This was a big surprise since I've only seen it bloom late in the summer.  The Myer lemon tree (far right) has lots of blooms too.  Hopefully we'll have lemons this year.

SNOMG make it stop!

We're iced/snowed in again today...no school.  There was rain/sleet at about 5am followed by snow that will continue until noon they say.  They snow amounts are much less the predicted though, which is good and bad....it'll be gone sooner, but there's nothing to sled on.  Not that Parker would last long in 14 degrees and 25mph winds.  Brrrrrr.  

Some random pictures for your amusement:  

Buddy's fish tank setup - We settled on the name Buddy.  His color really shows up will with the camera flash...he's really not quite that brilliant in person.  He seems to love having plants, so I got him lots.  I cleaned/rearranged his tank yesterday and he had a busy day checking it all out.  Note to Paula - he won't eat the Betta burgers (pellets), they're too big for him.  He's medium on the fish flakes too unless we really crumble them up, but as of yesterday, he's been enjoying freeze dried bloodworms. 

Good snow day activity:  Making each Valentine's Day card by hand.  I do have a few packages of the little preprinted kind (shhh, don't tell), but I'm not getting those out until we've milked this for all the time killing it's worth.

My first double layer cake - made for Bob's birthday.  The cake part is a Devil's Food mix...I had no room for error so I used a mix, but I made the chocolate ganache frosting from scratch.  I'm not excited about trapped indoors with this big yummy cake today.