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Weekly Wrap up: Ahhhhh

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In my life this week…

The big thing that happen in the past three weeks was that Philip had his confirmation. We had 19 over to our house for an early dinner before mass. After we all went to mass for the ceremony and cake after. He looks so grown up wearing a suit with a bow tie because ‘Bow ties are cool’. In case there are any who have not watched the new Doctor Who series, it is a reference to that.

Philip Confirmation
Philip Confirmation

Philip, Margaret and my wife went on a hike/camp with the cub scouts two weekends ago and they repeat the same with the scouts next weekend. Philip ate a fish that had only been caught hours before. He also discovered Archie comics which meant I finally got to drag out the box of them that I have from when I was a kid.

We finally got a new dishwasher. The old one had been a lemon since we bought the house. It always left crud baked onto the glasses. The new one is working beautifully, clean glasses every time.

Philip is going to have some orthodontics work done. Some of it is genetics but some is that he is missing 3 adult teeth most likely from all the chemo he received as a kid.

Bike to work week
Bike to work week

We had our annual Bike to work/school week. My wife rode her bike to work and the older kids rode part way and then rode back to ‘school’. Local businesses manned celebration stations that handed out treats. My wife made it to a couple and the kids managed to make it to one. It was much further than they have been before.

We also had out May Days complete with a Parade. Last year we were in the parade. This year we just watched. Ian is a hugger and occasionally ambushes people. I am not sure the mascot was expecting a hug but whoever it was handled it well.

In our homeschool this week…

Two weeks left AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Ian Portfolio
Ian Portfolio

Ok, its not that bad. Margaret and Ian are on track. Philip has a lot of writing to do in the next two weeks and he will be doing math over the summer.

Margaret Portfolio
Margaret Portfolio

It is time for the end of the year blitz and prioritizing what needs to be done. We always get it done I just wish it wasn’t always so stressful.

Philip Portfolio
Philip Portfolio

Origami

Origami Tardis
Origami Tardis

I made a Origami Tardis this week. It was fun but took three tries. The first ended as a crumpled piece of paper. The second was too small and the final fold couldn’t work. The third was made with poster board and thus was hard to fold but held its shape well and gave it a good size. The YouTube instructions are below:

(edit) I wrote a post on it: Origami Tardis

Linking up at:

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Origami

Origami Iris

Model Name: Origami Iris

Designed by: Unknown

Difficulty level: Easy

Origami Iris
Origami Iris

My thoughts:

I made a number of these since I really liked them. I wanted to see if they were cuter if they were made smaller. I think they would be but I had problems working with the smaller paper and both of the smaller ones ended up with the same error. As I was writing this I made another attempt at the smaller one and figured out my error. At 5:45 you fold a little triangle up. You repeat this step four times. If you miss one then one of the points in the end is missing and the model won’t sit right.

Origami Iris
Origami Iris

Happy: 8/10 It is another flower that I successfully made.

Relaxed: 7/10 It was a little frustrating not being able to figure out my mistake.

Intellectual: 9/10 It felt very good to finally figure out my mistake.

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Origami

Origami Butterfly

Model Name: Origami Butterfly

Designed by: Unknown

Difficulty level: Easy

Origami Butterfly
Origami Butterfly

My thoughts:

We got talking about origami when we had friends over and that meant the paper came out. During that I was shown how to make a butterfly. Now I am writing about it and I am trying to find a video of it. Of course there are many many videos of butterflies. So I ended up making a couple but none were the same as the one we made that evening. The two smaller ones are the ones made that evening. The two big ones were made from two different videos. The one on the right is the one that I am going to talk about as it is the closest to the first one. I like the original ones better as they are a slightly tighter design but this is a close second. I would guess that the first ones we made are an improvement on the video one.

Happy: 8/10 I would love to find a video of the original ones but this is a close second.

Relaxed: 9/10 The only frustration that I had was trying to find the right video. The model it self was easy with no steps that I had problems with.

Intellectual: 7/10 Trying to find the right video based on the thumbnail images on YouTube and then comparing the end results in case it was the same model just done differently were the only challenges.

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