Katha Dance

Friday Maya's class headed down the street to Saint Catherine University to see a performance of Sundari Aur Nag (which is and Indian retelling of Beauty and the Beast). Maya described it as weird, and that "it sounded like that music Mom listens to."

Jury Duty

Zaheeda has been away at jury duty all week which has meant that her normal duties have fallen to the rest of us - this is why I've yet to update the site this week. Hopefully things will be back to normal here in the next couple days.

Library Downtown

We were downtown this morning at the Central Library for one of their Saturday Live kids programs. This weekend it was circus people doing circus tricks which we thought Annah would enjoy but her attention lasted only about 20 minutes or so and then she wanted to play in the kids section.

Maya was happy to be back for the Saturday Live programs. Sure she is getting older but she still loves these little kid things. Her favorite of all time was when we went to see the "Bat Lady," this woman who had all these bats - she had bat skulls, live bats in cages, little bats in her pockets. It's nice the library can provide these programs for kids - it make for a nice learning opportunity as well as a way for local eccentric oddballs like the Bat Lady to make a little money on the side.

Ax-Man Surplus

The girls and I headed over to Ax-Man Surplus this afternoon to see of we could find a little velcro clip for Zaheeda to carry her cel phone. Annah found the store to be almost too much - we thought she would collapse from over stimulation... So much miscellaneous clutter!!!!

Sandwich

Sharing a sandwich with Annah on the way to violin lessons.

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Pumpkins

The girls took to carving their pumpkins tonight. Even Annah wasn't afraid to get her hands dirty.

Homework

Maya is so studious she started working on her homework in the car on the way to violin lessons. One little nugget of advise I could offer is that she would look a lot smarter if she didn't make that fish mouth face when she writes... Just a suggestion.

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First Lego League Pics

Maya took some pictures at Lego League tonight:

Car in parts


Parts as car


Computer to control car


and for some reason Damyan.....

Exploring Her Scandavian Roots

I was at a book sale in Mankato last week and found it kind of funny that most of the books I bought were by Scandinavian authors. This book by Theodore Jorgenson, a former professor at St. Olaf, about the great Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen was previously owned by some woman named Judith Carlson back in the 1950's... Makes you want to kick back with a nice plate of lutefisk and read the day away.

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