Quote of the Day -

If you want to build a ship, don't herd people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.

--Antione de Saint-Exupery

Tickets to the Show
The card stock supply has been reduced to scraps due the the production of countless DVDs, CDs, Videos, and casset tapes by "Card Studios" so this week the only thing left to create was tickets to see the shows.
Colin and Robyn made many tickets to many different shows. They had two theaters - one that showed prerecorded movies and one that was live plays. They made the tickets and then came to sell them to Grace and I. We bought several tickets (with our pretend money, of course) but we didn't know what time to show up for the show. The ticket vendors took our tickets and sent them back to printing to print times on the backs. Colin brought me one back that said 7.99 - this lead to a perfect opportunity to discuss time. I showed him the clock on the stove so he could see the colon (not a period) and then we remembered from a library book we'd had last week that time was a base 60 calculation not a base 100 like money. He remembered that time could only go to 59 and happily fixed the ticket to say 7:30.
The ticket was to "Teddy Grahams Eat Honey" which was a live show so it was in the theater in the family room (the movie theater is on the landing of the stairs so everyone can see with the stadium seating). Colin, Robyn, and Robyn's Sleeping Baby were in the show. It was so funny. They sat around a plastic drawer and pretended to eat honey while singing a little poem they made up about eating honey. I loved it so much that I asked for an encore to film. The camera had bad batteries (Randy fixed it when he got home.) so I had to drag out the old video camera to capture the play. Then we plugged the camera into the TV (Colin showed me how) and watched it repeatedly on the television and laughed and laughed. The kids LOVED being on TV. After that they played their fiddles for me to make a movie of to watch on TV. (That was a great way to show Colin that his bow is too close to the bridge and that's why he sounds so squeaky sometimes. I should have thought of that weeks ago! He sounds much better now.) Then they watched a bit of an old movie we'd made of Colin's 2nd birthday and baby Robyn. They loved seeing themselves when they were little. We had a very fun morning.