Too Many Cones

Yesterday (March 16) was free cone day at Dairy Queen. We also happened to be coming home from Huntsville. We stopped at every DQ we passed except for the one in Bastrop which we didn't see and was on the wrong side of the highway. Here are some pictures of Evan, who was by far the most excited, at each and every Dairy Queen.

Stop number one, Huntsville!!

Navasota was probably the worst ice cream

 

but 

sadly it was the only full cone Mom had.

Number three was Brenham.

Last but not least, Giddings.

 Two other DQs we could we could have stopped at but decided against were as I said, Bastrop, and Lockhart (Evan could have had one more in San Marcos but it was very crowded so they passed). 

Maker Camp

This week, last week, and for four more weeks we are doing maker camp. Maker Camp is an online camp sponsored by MAKE and Google+ with daily hangouts and a field trip on Friday. Additionally there is a daily project and an advanced daily project. There are themes for each week (week two is art and design) and a topic for each day's hangout (yesterday's was wearable tech). A hangout consists of two guests related to the topic of the day,( yesterday's were Erica Domesek, founder of P.S-I made this, a website that shows you how to make almost everything in under five steps. And Becky Stern, representative from Ada Fruit, a company that makes backpacks with turn signals for your bike, to a Jowa doll with glowing eyes.) and the hosts of Maker Camp who ask the guests questions. If you are interested,(I highly recommend it) you can start now. No registration is necessary but you do have to activate a Google+ account. If you do not want to activate an account you can watch the hangouts on YouTube a day after they occur, and get the daily project at
http://makercamp.com/summer-2014/schedule/#week-2-art-design.

This is a list of the projects so far and some pictures of us making/using them.

A rocket on top of a three story building is not a fail; it is a fair flight
and some gusty wind.
                              -Cole Schuelke

1. paper rockets !!
2. balance board !
3. heron's fountain (we're still perfecting it) !!
4. glow bike
5. LED shoe clips !
6. bee condos !
7. yarn bowl !

!!=made it
!=want to make it

Maker Camp Stomp Rocket from C Schuelke on Vimeo.












                                     Heron's Fountain                                            

Evan - Baseball- 2014

 

 Pitching, catching, scoring:  Evan does it all.  Today's opposing coach even pointed out to his team "That's a good catcher," loud enough for me to hear from our bleachers.