2023 Chloe School Photos Well, these are two samples of the six taken. If you’d like to order them printed nicely and delivered from the photographer, just ask me and I’ll send you the link to the web site. They are really quite nice.
These are two photos I snitched and did a rough job of removing the watermark. The top one came out better, but you can really see the blotches on the one below:
Any photos you order won’t have these blotches, promise!
Chloe’s school has a fundraiser every holiday season called The Winter Market. Chloe make this giant pile of plushies and sold almost every one!
So we made a baking video of us baking. I thought we were supposed to send in a 10-minute video, but actually when I found the correct instructions it turns out the video is only supposed to be ONE MINUTE. Oops, we’ll need to re-make it.
So here’s the original video. Perhaps I will get around making this shorter, after all it’s merely an hour long… but it is full of humorous commentary. Click this link to watch: https://www.tikimojo.com/share/hedgehog-unedited.mp4
Did you know that I’m a cake consultant for NASA? Now you do!
Our terrible Hedgehog cake: google that for more horribleness. Turns out it’s a “thing”.
While you weren’t looking, we went to the Holiday Expo:
First day of 7th Grade! (how did she get that tall?)
What’s this? More bunnies? Since she was leaving the eating program, Chloe crochet’d 15 bunnies to give to her fellow students.
Chloe and Dad go for a walk…
Dinner! Chicken casserole with cheese biscuits on top.
Today: Pizza Schmizza for lunch!
RAARRRR!!!
And a whole bunch of doodling. Dad drew Captain Toast & Butter Boy and The Criminal Flip Flop Brothers. Here we see several renditions of Chloe’s Banana Man stuffy, as seen below in real life.
Spotted on the campus of Pacific University (right there in Forest Grove).
…a closeup…
Placed 1949. I find it interesting to observe how fashions in establishing monuments changes over time.
Frequent viewers may know that for the past 26 years I’ve been hosting a sport called Mondo Croquet. It’s croquet – only bigger, with bowling balls and sledgehammers! It’s so mighty fun it was voted Best of Portland. You can read more about it and see loads of photos here: http://mondocroquet.com
In a pleasant turn of affairs I was invited (and paid!) to host Mondo Croquet for three days at the Realms Unknown festival. This is a family-friendly event populated with fairies, pirates, vikings, ogres, time travelers, mermaids, dragons and all sorts of fun-seekers.
This mermaid swimming in her tank lit up at night was absolutely enchanting. I taking photos of the festival to others and just took photos of what we were doing. Here’s a few:
Here’s some foreshadowing…
Chloe intends to be a Cheeto for Halloween.
And we’ll finish off this post with a photo of some recent Chloe art. Yes, she painted that!
