Holy smokes! Before you know it a whole month passes by. This past month went by too fast! I guess that is what happens when there are soccer practice and games, football practice and games.
In school the boys are studying seeds and have a project to collect and display all differnt kids of seeds so they went into the back woods to collect what they can.
They need to seperate the seeds into different categories...travel by wind, planted by people, drop where they fall and "hitchhikers". I think Jamison found some hitchhikers!
We made it out to Treinen Corn maze. This year the corn maze has a technology theme--
gears, knots, circuit board and da Vinci’s Vitruvian Man a little bit modified. We made it through and found all parts to the map, but we only found 2 of the bonus 8 stamps. They say only 2% of their guests actually find all 8, maybe one year we will spend the whole day looking for them.
Jamison tried the Jacobs Ladder again, and again he did not ring the bell. We should really build one of those in the back yard to practice.
Peter's favorite was the pumpkin launcher....he hit the target! and earned a free bag of popcorn!
Jamison came close...and also got close to launching himself along with the mini pumpkin.
On our way home we noticed this disturbing site...yes, there are two dead dear on the back of the toyota camry. weird.
Our next cooking challenge-Chopped. Both boys will have the same 4 ingredients and will have 30 minutes to prepare a side dish for our dinner.
The ingredients....pasta, carrots, peas and shredded cheese. They had the same criteria as our Iron Chef competitions (Taste, Originality, Use of ingredients and Cleanliness) and one souschef (me).
The boys got right to work and I think enjoyed ordering the sous chef around a little too much.
My! that is a big knife Peter! No fingers were cut..so maybe their knife skills are improving.
Jamison prepared two side dishes, first a salad with pretty much everything from the fridge and a sushi inspired rice dish. Peter prepared a similar salad but had added soynuts for a little crunch. He also served yogurt and berries for a palate cleanser and pickles for Jamison because he would not have liked the yogurt. The scores were nearly tied, only a 1pt difference. That 1pt was given because the boy actually put a couple ingredients back in the fridge...ie cleanliness. Sorry Jamison you are "chopped" Congrats Peter! Jamison declared a rematch! hmmmm, i wonder what the ingredients will be!
For dinner the special boy picked noodles and meatballs, sauce on the side and carrots!
And for dessert....yummy peanut butter icecream! at school he was the special star and shared muffins with the class.
For his special gift we gave him aquarium wallpaper for Speedy and NG Encyclopedia of Animals. He has been wanting this book since we returned from Wild Rumpus in Minneapolis. He was also the one that typed most of this blog post! Happy Jamison Day!!!!
