Science Girl!

My baby rocks! Today Emma won first place in the school science fair and gets to enter her project in the Regional Science Fair in a couple of weeks.

In the interest of full disclosure and clarification (and NOT to diminish her accomplishment in ANY way), it should be stated that of the entire first grade at her school, Emma was one of three (3) children who even DID a science project. But still, she does rock. She worked hard and I am so proud of her!

Jared, while not winning a ribbon this year (hey, he had to compete against the ENTIRE fourth grade), did score a perfect grade on his project. While he was quite disappointed (and a tad jealous of his little sister, I'm sure) at not winning, he recovered from his funk rather quickly once convinced that a perfect grade was indeed most impressive and being assured that we were very proud of him for the effort he put into his work.

In honor of their academic prowess, we decided to go out to dinner to celebrate. Just give me an excuse not to cook, any excuse! At the restaurant (where, by the way, the ubiquitously mounted big screen tv's were beaming a not-exactly-kid-friendly PG-13 movie - what is that about?), the following comment was made by my son in a most polite tone to the waitress upon opening and inspecting the little box of crayons supplied with the kids menu: "Um, excuse me ... are these crayons used?"