My day.

Okay, last night I promised someone on this site that I would try to post my antics daily. I figure I should keep my word for at least a week, so here goes.

Today's interactions with the cubs was not as stellar as yesterday's. Yesterday's engaging discussion of electromagnetism was replaced by the more usual art projects. Not so bad, I suppose; we discovered the art of... um... whatayacall it when you cut out paper shapes and glue them together to make a picture? Not a collage, really, nor a mosaic... Sort of like colorforms with paper. Anyway, this resulted in a sailboat, with multimedia clouds (torn-up bits of white plastic bag).

More excitingly, we made progress on our animation of the story the 5-year-old wrote (well, dictated) about The Queen, the Birds and the Magic Pennies.Got the modeling most of the rigging done for the Queen and pennies.Yay!. Should be interesting watching her learn about camera work, close-ups, etc. And she illustrated a second Queen, presumably for another story.

The kids have been watching The Little Mermaid and Peter Pan lately. The 5-year-old has developed my tendency to nitpick, and I'm so proud:

"Why do Disney princesses almost never eat anything?"

"Why does she have shoes all of a sudden? [after a brief cutaway after climbing onto the ship barefoot]"

"How come she has no blanket on her here... [5-second cutaway to another character]..and here she has the blanket on her?"

"How come Wendy forgot she can fly?"

"How did she make that 'Mmm!' noise? Did they forget she doesn't have her voice? Why do they always get everything wrong?"

Tonight, after giving the kids their nightly dose of chloroform (joke), I watched a netflix movie, "Immortality" (alternate title, "The Wisdom of Crocodiles"), with Jude Law. Sort of a romantic vampire movie. Kinda. Overall, I liked it. Not sure how to characterize it. Main character sorta let me down at the end, but then I was also glad he didn't let me down with a cliché ending. Great performance by Law, regardless.

And then I wrote a blog. The end.