Kid Creations

 Breezy introduced Elliot to this beautiful language called Tendrilis or Vine Language. It's cool because you can shape your writing in all sorts of ways. 

This one says "I love you mom!!" on both edges of the heart. What a thing to find on my nightstand. 

Here's the key, preserved for posterity

And here's a few cool looking messages! 

Elliot's origami skills have been developing. This kid can memorize how to fold things so quickly. I like this great combo of dragon and tank, aptly named "Jerry"

Another tank, artistically photographed with a grub found in the backyard. 

Elliot made his own chess set after playing a few games and seeing a 3d printed on our summer vacation.

These origami triangle units are a delightful open ended toy

April 2025 general conference featured a "key word pop-it" game by Elliot.

The kids cared for a family of avocado pits for a while. Avo and Cado were the good guys, while Ova and Odac were their evil twins. 

Here's some Annie creations from parent night at school. She does love her hair!

Here is said hair on crazy hair day. Annie requested crazy curly pigtails with all the ribbons while Isaac went the mohawk of mini ponytails route. 

Annie with Annie taped to her head

"Build a fort" was selected for Sunday family game. We thought of using bungee cords for the first time ever, and it really unlocked a lot of structural integrity! The only problem with this design is that it totally blocked off access between the kitchen, stairs, and garage unless you are willing to crawl through child sized tunnels. I opted to walk around outside when I had to leave for a meeting. 

Here is Annie's crown jewel: her reverse video! The song is "Golden" from KPop Demon Hunters, which is her current obsession in life. 

I find edited pictures like this whenever kids manage to get a hold of my phone

Isaac described this picture as "a crow ate a bomb that exploded. That's why there are feathers everywhere. Also a snake is trying to eat the feathers and it is breathing fire."

Inspired by the alpaca wool dying demonstration from Peru, I harvested some cochineal bugs!

The internet walked me though how to make an extract. I was hoping to make some watercolor paints or something, but apparently you need Alum and other random stuff I didn't feel like waiting to get. Instead, I substituted my cochineal extract for water in our homemade playdough recipe.

It turned out alright. Not as vibrant as the Alpaca wool for sure! It turns out that there's more than just boiling stuff to their craft.