Friday Fragments

**Around Christmas-time, Grandma earned 2 free unlimited ride wristbands for the Nickelodeon Universe park at the Mall of America. We got a chance to finally use them last weekend. The place was packed! All the kids were amazingly patient as we waited in line for the rides. We discovered that our very brave Lauren was freaked out a little by a couple of the roller coasters. And Benjamin (affectionately referred to as the Wimp) LOVED them. Noah was just tall enough to ride one of them and proceeded to do so about 7 times in a row.

**All the kids had Beach Day at school this week. Lauren always looks forward to this day. Every year she always tries to convince me that she should be able to wear her swimsuit to school! Nice try girlie.

**Computer genius, I think not! - Noah's newest interest is playing games on the computer. He is REALLY good at turning the computer on and getting to where he wants to go. Although this week he somehow pushed some button or combinations thereof so that the display on the monitor was tilted 90 degrees (just imagine turning your head sideways to look at what the screen was saying). Dave couldn't even figure out how to get it back to normal.

**During the whole computer monitor incident and my attempt to fix it (yeah right, like that was going to happen)Noah decided he wanted a snack. He came back into the office where I was fuming at the computer and asked if we could make some popcorn. We went upstairs to make some. He had already gotten out the popcorn pan and it was on the stove. As I came around the corner in the kitchen I was surprised to find the entire floor covered with popcorn kernels! UGH. He was sent to get the broom to help clean up. As I moved the pan from the stove it seemed a little heavy. I opened it to find the remaining popcorn kernels.....about 4 cups worth! Thank goodness he didn't decide to turn the stove on.

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Thanks to Mrs4444 at Half-Past Kissin' Time for the Friday Fragment idea. Friday Fragments are bits and pieces of your week that aren't long enough for one blog entry but are too good to miss.