I'm laying on the bed with my 3.5 month old daughter who is interacting with the Princess and the Frog app on my iPad while I check my RSS feeds via Reeder on my iPhone. She is reading along with the book portion, watching the embedded videos and recording her voice as the narrator. It's really something to observe. Then she dips into the coloring book part of the app where she colors on the iPad while describing the scene from the book she just read. I'm hopeful that books she reads and interacts with in school will capture her imagination in the same way. If not, our "one size fits all" edu system is doomed.

Mary Hudson painted a few of the pages on the The Princess and the Frog Read-Along for iPad app and figured out that she could mail them to me...

Not bad for a 3 year old.

From one of my students, Jesseca about another one of my students who fell ill this week...

Tree Frog Science: "These stories show us that hope can go a long way and can be exhibited in many forms. Meredith deserves our hope and our support every waking moment, so I challenge you. All of you 8th graders, and any other griffins or friends alike, to take a stand and join me in folding a thousand cranes to send to Meredith to remind her that even though we are not physically with her, we are with her in spirit."

Let's fold cranes indeed.

It's the most wonderful time of the year...

Yes, suspenders... And yes, "Hunk" was self-annotated.

I'm finally getting our "Harrelson Family Site" up and going. What else/all should I include?

Harrelson Family | Anna, Sam, Mary Hudson, Laura, Schaefer, Macy and the Fish

Should I go the SweetCron route (here's looking at you, Jangro)? I'd like to do something that's self-hosted and self-sufficient. Decisions, decisions...

I finally broke down and bought a reel mower today. I mowed half of our property. It was fantastic. Then I ate a pear from one of the fruit trees on our property. It wasn't quite ready, but it was still fantastic. I think today will make me a better science teacher.

Evidently the Wii Fit manual contains hidden text of the ABC Song... MH_Sings_at_Piano.mp3

Google Voice hates my mom's southern accent: Not even close. Love them both, though.

Mary Hudson got her first splinter today while we at lunch (at Asheville Pizza and Brewing, which is just fantastic). It was a doozy. Thankfully, someone with us had tweezers (I left my Swiss Army Knife on my keychain which I didn't have with me). Maybe it was because it is Father's Day today, but it was a pretty neat moment that we shared as we got the splinter out. She was proud of herself for not crying and I was proud of her for getting her first splinter. I'm sure there will be many more splinters in her life (both the real thing and the metaphorical ones). I can only hope she'll handle those with as much grace as she had today. Happy Father's Day to me.