Patchwork Game

I have found a Patchwork Computer game to share with my quilt friends.......

http://wellgames.com/free_online/patchworkz/

Have fun!!!!!!!!!

The Art of Music times Three

Here are three entries for the Michigan Quilt Artist Invitational. The theme is The Art of Music - interpreted any way you like.

I will be delivering them to Flint tomorrow and they will be on tour for over a year. The grand opening will be at the Flint Art Council in September.

The first one is by Cindy - "Killing me Softly"

The second is by Ruth - Trouble With Trebles

The last is mine - The Composers Palette

New Backpack and More Swimming!!!!

Allison picked out a new backpack for school - it has a matching lunch box, too!!!

Allison has enjoyed going to the pool. She is very confident with her swimmies - I don't blow them up all the way...she doesn't know that. However, she is NOT going to put her head in the water to swim. She is really trying to use her arms and kick - but with that head out of water, she doesn't go very well........another year!!!!

She brings some Polly Pocket dolls to play with at the pool. They fell off the kickboard, so she found a mask as was going to dive for them, but decided that she "just couldn't do it."

She really enjoyed it when her Grandpa came to the pool........he had her so relaxed on her back.....she tried to do it on her own, too.

I love the hairdo - braids tied up in the pony tail. When I was little, that was called sugar bowls. Sure keeps it out of the way for swimming!!!!

I took Allison to meet her dad in Indiana - he had picked up Alexander from his National Young Scholars Camp in Illinois - and had a great time.

Now our house is quiet - only Mango to snuggle with.

Ingham County Fair

We went to the Fair today............petting zoo area with lots of goats, cow, donkey, alpaca, sheep, goats, ducks, rabbit, pigs....fun to be with.

There were very large Belgian horses hitched to carts and wagons - HUGE!!!!

And lots of animals that kids had raised - cows, pigs, sheep, chickens, rabbits, and many things that they had made on display.

Allison and I rode the ferris wheel twice.....and you can see the space in her mouth where she has lost 2 teeth. She enjoyed lots of other rides, too.

We both had corn dogs for lunch - a fair special.

We played at the park nearby for a few minutes before leaving for home.

Sunday Golf

We went golfing this morning..........

As you can see, Allison does not take this sport very seriously!!!!!!!!

She did use her brothers' putter a few times. She enjoyed being responsible for the pins on the greens.......if you saw a flag waving on a green, it was her!! And the monkey on the cart....that was her, too. John had one word for her game - hopeless!!!!!!

Her second tooth came out after dinner. She wiggled and twisted and out it came!! It was very loose and ready to come out.

Looks like the tooth fairy will be coming again. Allison asked if she was really alive. She gave money, didn't she????????

Ruth reports that the tooth fairy has been giving Sacagawea dollar coins.....

We'll see in the morning......

Morning at the Zoo

This morning Allison and I went to Potter Park Zoo - unfortunately many of the animals were taking their morning naps!!!! The otters were sleeping, the new baby snow leopard was sleeping, the tigers were sleeping, the lion was sleeping, the penguins were sleeping..............the spider monkeys were playing together and fun to watch.

Allison got to ride a camel - bumpy!!

We went to Ruths' house to see friends for lunch... And to play with Sadie, the dog. We also got to see Jacob - Lisas' grandson.

ALLISON LOST A TOOTH!!!!

Allison lost her first tooth this evening!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

She will put in in a tooth fairy pillow that belonged to her mom, Ashley.

There are 3 more loose teeth in her mouth. The second one on the bottom will fall out next - in a couple days or less!!!!
Her top two teeth are loose, too!!!!!

P.S. - Before Allison went to bed her Grandpa John asked what the tooth fairy would leave in the pillow. She wasn't sure, so John said maybe a dime. Allison said that would be nice.
This morning there were 10 dimes in the little pocket in the tooth fairy pillow, and the question, "Is the tooth fairy alive?"
She left money, didn't she??????!!!!!!!