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Hannah as Minnie Mouse!

 Yesterday felt like a busy day.  I got the kids off to school, came home and cleaned the kitchen and did two loads of laundry and walked the dogs.


Then I went to JoAnns (where I had been the day before) because Hannah needed a yard of red and with white polka dots fabric.  That took awhile.

Came home, ate lunch, walked the dogs, did some more laundry, made some YW phone calls and emails.

Hannah came home and I helped her make her costume, mostly she did it.  She had painted her shoes yellow the night before, the rest we had to do.

Went to pick up Lu and we all headed to Ethan's school for the STEM family challenge followed by cafeteria dinner and fitness night.

Then we went to the church for YW and cubs.  Lu and I went to Panera and had treats and Kitty came there randomly so we happily sat together and chatted between knock knock jokes.

Went back to church, got cuboree stuff and kids. On the drive home E reported the StarBase Atlantis was "awesome".  They got to each build a life support pod, that they will get to test next time, and the third time they go they get to fly in the flight simulators that the pilots use.  Sweet.   Came home (9pm now) put Lu to bed, took dogs for a walk, put kids to bed, went to bed.

The family challenge was fun.  We were in teams.  Ethan and John were a team.  They had a piece of plastic, two index cards, some string and unlimited staples, tape and crayons.  The challenge was to make a candy bag that weighed less than 11grams that would hold the most candy in it. 
The boys won.
It was tested by hanging the bag on a hanger and counting the number of marbles it held.  First the bags were weighed.  E/J's bag was the lightest.  It held 220 marbles.  The highest number of marbles held by any bag was 227.  When E saw that he was indignant.  For a minute. Then he said, "wait..the bag is supposed to be light" so then he figured out how many marbles each bag held per gram the bag weighted, took his calculations to his teacher, argued that his team actually won and he was right.  Their bag held 1/3 of the weight of a marble more per gram than any other team.  Happy (obnoxious) little boys.  Not sure if he will be a lawyer or an engineer when he grows up :)