Samuel Braden Kulesus

Autumn Twilight

Just some family photos taken recently. Unfortunately, the lighting was poor for all of them. I'll take what I can get these days...

Discovery Place - Charlotte NC

We went to visit "Aunt" Selena in her new home in Charlotte, NC.
She is a master decorator and has really made the place beautiful!
She's also been making her own pottery. I thought Rich caught a beautiful shot here.

Selena lives within walking distance of the Discovery Place so we went exploring!

Gavin spent many minutes at the aluminum foil sculpture station. He was very focused and made some very creative sculptures. Maybe he will take after his mom and Aunt Selena!

The bed of nails looked so cool and uncomfortable that the kids waited in a long line to try it out.

We visited the Discovery Place with Aunt Selena, Meme and Papa Goldston
and had a wonderful time! (Only a couple of meltdowns :)

And of course, we can't forget lego guns and fishing with the cousins!!
We miss NC and visiting with family!

Mother/Daughter Campout

What a fun experience! It has been a while since I spent some one-on-one time with Elisabeth and we both enjoyed it. And we were able to get to know some new friends along the way!

Elisabeth made some "fairy" pies for the neighborhood fairies that lived in the woods. They were very creative with acorn tops filled with small flower petals and tiny berries.

We attempted a canoe ride which was brave for Elisabeth but a bit too rocky. We'll have to try canoeing again next summer when she's a little older.

Dr. Kulesus!

I apologize for my lack of posts these past few months. Life has been busy with many changes and transitions happening. To start with, Rich has officially become "Dr. Kulesus" after successfully presenting a wonderful thesis presentation and defense. Now just polishing up the actual thesis and helping to get his last paper published, we are are starting to pack to move on to the next stage in life. Oh wait, it's still school - so not much different than the past 12 years! But we'll be in New Hampshire which will be a change!

Oh, and there's a little something growing... and will be joining us in November! See, lots of changes as I promised!

More posts and pictures to come as time permits...

Squid Math

My kids have learned a new game from Cartoon Network:

"Squid" plus "Fish" equals "Squish".
"Squid" plus "Kill" equals "Squeal".
"Squid" plus "Peak" equals "Squeak".
"Squid" plus "Chair" equals "Square".
"Squid" plus "Washing machine" equals "Squashing machine".
"Squid" plus "Poo" equals "Squoo".

..... Well, you can imagine there are been lots of silly adding lately!

Spore-itis

Spore is a computer game where you can create and "hatch" your own creatures and their families and interact with other creature clans. (like eating them, making friends, etc.)

So Gavin says, "I know that daddy is addicted to Spore."
Me: "Is that so? How do you know?"
Gavin: "Well, he plays it ALL the time!!"
Me: "But does he turn it off when you ask him? If you are truly "addicted", you wouldn't be able to stop playing even if you tried."
Gavin: "I would never ask him to turn it off! I'm addicted to Spore too!!!"