All you need to do to get this kid moving is ask the question “Want to go to the dinosaur place?”… and he is bolting out the door with his shoes in his hand.

He drags me around the exhibits by my finger, growling at the huge skeletons. He’s not even afraid of the ones who could swallow him whole.

Zoe is home from school today. Sick. Again. (Zoe is one of the few kids on the planet who actually LOVES school… so much so that she will fake wellness to go. Like, if her arm was half severed, she would try to tape it up and put on a heavy sweater and attempt to get out the door before I spotted the blood.)

Anyway, I made her stay home again today. She is bored beyond words. I am about to go print her out some math sheets so she can pretend that she is at school.

In the meantime, though, check out the sweet fort she built this morning in the piano room. She built it especially for spying on the neighbors and people delivering things to our door. (Our flat screen is scheduled to be delivered this afternoon… yeah, you heard me. Flat screen. The family who hasn’t had cable — not even local channels — for a year and a half is getting a flat screen. Sometimes we actually like to flush our money directly down the toilet.)

Behold: the “Sick Fort”

Did you see her wallet? Did you catch it? If not, go back and see if you can spot the 86 seconds its on screen again.

And here she shows you the peephole for spying:

And now I’m off to print math sheets and stealthily administer medicine.

(Post script… I realized after watching the videos that the video of her wallet was so long that flickr actually cut it off. You don’t get to see the other objects contained in her “adventure bag” or the sweet Exit sign. Darn.)

My kids love crepes. My husband loves them, too. It’s one of the favorites in his family. On the weekends when we’re feeling ambitious, we’ll often make them. (And by we, I mean Jon, with the help of one or more of our kids.) But this morning, Jon asked the kids to make crepes while he mowed the yard… a request that they took very seriously. So seriously that there were no adults allowed in the kitchen. It was a Kid Only Zone. They got down the blue recipe book and got to work.

Crepes:
1 C. milk, 2 eggs, 1 tsp. salt, 1 C. flour, 1 Tbs melted butter

Mix in that order:

Next, use a measuring cup to pour batter into pan. “Swirl” batter to make crepes thin:

Flip after 1 minute. Don’t overcook.

Mix secret sauce:

My kids were totally ticked off that I disclosed the ingredients in the secret sauce, but I assured them that it’s still very much a secret, since I’m not giving you the recipe for our homemade jam. (Incidentally, you can experiment with different flavor jams. My personal favorite is blackberry.)

Finally, roll, drizzle with maple syrup, and sprinkle with powdered sugar:

Frickin yummy.