Annabel has had an AMAZING birthday weekend. Friday was her actual birthday, and yesterday was the big birthday party. Today Mike and I feel like we ran a marathon, but the kids are still super-hyped and anxious to play with every! single! present! Annabel received for her birthday, which really flies in the face of all of the sitting I feel like doing today.
Around The ‘Net
~Flint, Michigan’s water crisis: what the national media got wrong
~The DIY Scientist, the Olympian, and the Mutated Gene
~This mother drank while pregnant. Here’s what her daughter’s like at 43.
~The strange life of Q-tips, the most bizarre thing people buy
~Police Sketches of 5 Literary Characters Based on Their Book Descriptions
~Scientists Find Hints Of A Giant, Hidden Planet In Our Solar System
~Kathryn Smith Makes History As NFL’s First Female Full-Time Coach
Science Girl
~Annabel received awesome presents from her friends and family this year – clothes, hair accessories, CDs, a diary, and crafts. The first things she and James wanted to open this morning were a few cool science kits. They’ve already started a garden with a botany kit, made a non-Newtonian fluid with a Disgusting Science kit, and watched water climb with a Stepping into Science kit. They’re all really cool and come with a ton of different experiments. I have a feeling we’ll try ALL of them before the end of the day – in between her trying on all of her clothes, writing in her diary, and dancing to music. I need to borrow some energy!
Delayed Force
We were bummed to hear that Star Wars Episode VIII’s release date has been pushed back seven months to December 2017. It’s not quite the 32-year wait we had between episodes VI and VII, but considering how often Annabel asks us if it’s “time for the next Star Wars,” I have a feeling it’s going to feel like 32 years. She did get some cool Star Wars presents for her birthday, so hopefully that will help pass the time. Mike found her this awesome Rey figure back in December, and my parents gave her the Rey & Finn Disney Infinity figures, which are so fun I might have to play with them after the kids are asleep.
It’s good to be six!
Happy Sunday, everyone!
Steph says:
That article about the girl who self diagnosed her rare disease was so interesting! Thanks!
Leslie says:
Did you hear about *why* they suspect the Star Wars movie has been delayed? Apparently the morons in charge didn’t think that Rey, Finn, and Poe would be so well-loved, and thought everyone would love Kylo Ren (WTF were they thinking?!?!?). So now they are rewriting like their lives depend on it to put more of Rey and Finn in it…nutso.
Heather says:
YES! Which seems so CRAZY because Rey is the freaking main character, how could she have not been in the next movie enough?! Kylo Ren is an interesting character but not exactly one you want to buy the figures of. So dumb.
Leslie says:
I didn’t care for Kylo Ren at all. (SPOILER ALERT) First of all: bad guy. Second of all: KILLED HIS FATHER. Third of all…the guy playing him looks super super creepy.
Meanwhile, Rey was super awesome and FINALLY a female heroine! White men (yeah, making assumptions here) are SO DUMB sometimes.
Leslie says:
Speaking of which: I can’t even believe this!! IT LOOKS JUST LIKE KYLO REN.
http://time.com/4185354/cat-looks-like-adam-driver/
Heather says:
OMG I can’t stop laughing!
Leah says:
If I hadn’t clicked on the link, I would never have known that the predecessors to Q-Tips were called “Baby Gays.” Thanks for that LOL moment!!!