It's Hip to be Square

Oh, I can relate to this video in MANY ways!  If I had to pick a couple...but I don't think I'm AS mean as Debra :) but Raymond is pretty close to Rod.

Here's Cee the Science Olympian on the morning of her competition.  (I think the hot water and hot dryer helped a bit, she'll be able to wear this shirt in her college dorm room - it's gathered in the back).  The competition was very well organized and well-represented from many private, Gate and technical focused schools and even a large school from the Bay Area.  There was a gap in how Cee's team prepared and then competed.  Meaning they practiced their pasta bridge w/ unlimited pasta and when they got there they saw they were only given 8 pieces of varied sized spaghetti.  Ooops - it was fun and they used their minds to figure it out.  Next year we'll have our game on :)

Jae has been obsessed with wearing the most realistic cast she can come up with.  This is an ace bandage with paper wrap so she can have everyone sign it.  Cee received these crutches from Papa one year as a birthday present.  That's all she wanted.  What's with my kids and orthopedic medical apparatus?  

Okay, don't laugh.  These are one of those knitting disasters...you know when someone is excited about knitting and they make you wear funky creations in ugly patterns.  Okay, so I've learned that variagated yarn has it's place in the sock world only.  These were suppossed to be hip fingerless mittens in Kaye's favorite colors.  She just laughs when she puts them on. Trying to tell her it's "hip to be square."  She's not falling for it yet.