Foolish Friday

Knock Knock
Who's there?
Amory!
Amory who?
Amory Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Caleb 2009

Foolish Friday

Knock Knock !
Who's there ?
Cat.

Cat who ?
Cat you just open this door !

  

Caleb's tiger drawing from last summer.

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Knock knock !
Who's there ?
Safari.

Safari who ?
Safari so good !

Caleb's tapir picture from last year. The tapir is his favorite animal.

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Knock Knock !
Who's there ?
Bed.
Bed who ?
Bed you can't guess I've got a cold !

 

Caleb's drawing of a boy jumping on his bed. The ceiling fan is my favorite part.

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Knock knock !

Who's there ?

Arctic.

Arctic who ?

Arctics gonna bite me ?

Caleb's origami penguin. He told me it had to be photographed with the rubber band ball because it can't stand on it's own.

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Knock Knock !
Who's there ?
Alex.
Alex who ?
Alexplain later now let me in !

One of Caleb's creations.

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Knock Knock !

Who's there ?

I don't know.

I don't know who?

I told you I don't know.  Why won't you believe me?

My little guy when he was still little. 2005.

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Knock Knock !

Who's there ?

Dishes.

Dishes who ?

Dishes me.  Who ish you ?

A pretty tree drawing from our Compassion International sponsor child in Peru.

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Knock Knock !

Who's there ?

Bach.

Bach who ?

Bach to work, slacker !

 

Music making machines that my son, Caleb, drew recently on a wrinkly scrap of paper.

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Knock Knock !

Who's there ?

Sherlock.

Sherlock who ?

Sherlock your door !  Someone could break in !

Caleb's drawing of a robot--of course!

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Knock Knock !
Who's there ?
Butter.
Butter who ?
I butter not tell you !

We sponsor a little girl in Peru through Compassion International. She recently sent us these happy butterfly drawings.

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Knock, knock !
Who's there ?
Water.
Water who ?
Water way to answer the door !

A recent drawing by my son, Caleb. I'm not sure why my Air Force brat is drawing a Navy picture, but his great grandfather will be proud. There is a giant peeking over the ship, the sun, the moon, a big bird, a missile and I'm not quite sure what else. He's eight.

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Knock Knock !
Who’s there ?
Adore.
Adore who ?
Adore stands between us, open up !

Picture of a door my husband took in Arequipa, Peru last year at the Convent of St. Catherine

Foolish Friday

Knock Knock !
Who's there ?
Bless.
Bless who ?
I didn't sneeze !

In the interest of continued knock knock proficiency, please note that in this knock knock joke the word "who" substitutes for the word "you." Therefore, you can change it up by replacing the word "Bless" with any word that could be followed by "you." For instance "Thank who?" followed by "You're Welcome!" Or by an action followed by "you" such as "Hug who?" followed by "Hug You!" and a real hug.

 

This is my son Caleb's recent drawing. He got a 3D drawing book from the library and tried out one of the exercises in perspective. However, he had to give it his own twist. The moving van in the picture is on it's way to Area 51 with escaped spider aliens.
 

Sue

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Knock Knock !
Who's there ?
Alpaca !
Alpaca who ?
Alpaca picnic lunch ! 

 

We took a picture of this guy on our trip to Peru last year

Career Day

Last week I had the privilege to participate in Career Day at my son's Elementary school.  I gave six 15 minute talks to groups of K-2nd Graders about a career in jewelry design. I emphasized that I use all my educational background right through college and beyond to do my job: math, computers, geography, writing, science, and more.

As always, the kids were a lot of fun and they wanted to touch everything.  I brought strands of pearls and gemstone beads for them to pass around. Since set up and take down time was limited I just brought a few items to display and was able to pull up my website on all the computers.

So, what kinds of questions do the little ones ask? The top two questions are: "How do you get the holes in the beads?" and "How do you make the gold?" They really got interested in finding out what their birthstones were and seeing if I had any of their birthstones with me (I did have a few).

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My demo time for jewelry design was in the afternoon. In the morning, I actually helped Master Castro of Air Force Taekwondo in North Las Vegas do a talk and demo on a Career in Taekwondo for 3rd - 5th Graders.

The kids really seemed to enjoy the demo and kept coming around all afternoon asking what happened to the Taekwondo people since we only did Taekwondo in the morning. We showed them some sparring, forms, self defense and kicks and answered a lot of questions. Some of the kids got a chance to try out some kicks too!

Every day since then I've had kids running up to me saying "Hey, aren't you that Kung Fu lady?"

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Recently I talked about versatile knock knock jokes that you can change easily depending on circumstances.  Here is another one of those:

Knock Knock !

Who's there ?

Teddy.

Teddy Who ?

Teddy is the first day of the rest of your life !

Since "Teddy" substitues for the word "Today," you can always change it to something like:

Teddy is a good day to work in the yard.

Teddy is a fine day to pick up all your toys.

Teddy is a great day to go to the dentist.

You get the idea :-)

Caleb brought these drawings home from school. The first one is a penguin--of course. The second is a diagram of how to build a radio.

Sue

Caleb's Creations

Here are a couple of my son, Caleb's new creations. He is eight years old. I think they are quite fun and I love to see what he creates.

lego penguin

origami fox finger puppet

Sue

Children's Drawings

My son is not fond of doing art. Since I majored in art that's something of a disappointment to me. But lately he has come up with some pretty cool drawings so I have to take the opportunity to show one off. Today he finished this drawing to send to the little girl we sponsor through Compassion International in Peru. Is it just me or is there a little Van Gogh in this?

This is a drawing of one of the floating reed islands of the Uros that we visited in Peru last summer. Below are a couple of photos we took there for comparison.


The next drawing is from our sweet sponsored child in Peru. She's four years old. We love getting letters and drawings from her.


Below are a couple of pictures we took in Arequipa, Peru to show you they really do use the colors she drew on the houses there.