The Champ

Mikro is the 8th Grade Regional Champion for the National History Bee in the New York South region, and qualified for Nationals. Way to go, kiddo!

Happy Birthday, Mikro!

We celebrated a few days early, but he will be 15 any day now! He is as tall as I am and has a foghorn voice like his Dad. I am amazed at what an incredible young man my sweet little boy is turning into!

Happy Spring!

It's 80 degrees today, going down to 40 tonight. Happy Spring, I think...

Happy Spring!

Happy Easter!

Mikro's Easter started off with an egg hunt in the back yard. His dad made him work hard for his prizes. But I think he will agree they were worth the effort. He got 7 fossil eggs, including a mosasaur tooth, spinosaurus tooth, shark tooth, megalodon tooth, enrolled trilobite, sand dollar, and a brachiopod. And a few more traditional basket fillers: some candy and fruit snacks, and little toys like star wars ships and putty that makes rude noises. I think I nailed it for 14 (almost 15!) year old paleontology/science fiction geek boy... For breakfast he had easter eggs that he dyed at his gramma and grampa's house on Good Friday (our family tradition. My mom loves it because the mikromonkey was born on Good Friday and came home on Easter Sunday, so she gets a kick out of seeing him then and doing the egg thing with him...)