Mexico Week

Today we began.
After a 6am run.
And breakfast.
And a trip to Albertsons,
and then to Walmart.
And after 2 loads of clean laundry arrived on my couch,
patiently being ignored.

We began our hap-hazardous study of Mexico by filling in our passports with a picture and a name. You can't go to Mexico without a passport! Bekah was very proud of hers and now feels ready to cross the border with it. Jacob drew a very impressive likeness of himself. And don't they both look just thrilled.
Then we made the pinata. The kids decided yesterday on a polar bear pinata. It is not gender-biased, it is free of princess/villain/bad guy tendencies, and it's even politically correct...well not really. They decided today to buy red crepe paper for it. Yep. A red polar bear. You might not be able to tell from here, but according to Bekah and Jacob, one half of this baby bear is a boy and one half is a girl. I know. Creepy.
Personally (s)he looks more like a hippo than a polar bear, but what do I know.

Did you know that Bekah knows the pledge of allegiance in Spanish? Apparently they say it every day at school in both English and Spanish. I didn't find this out until a month ago. Crazy! She feels she has a very strong Spanish vocab, as she can also say "Hola!" Fluently. Too bad her blue eyes and blond hair give her away!

Somehow at lunchtime I wound up with a headache.
Could have been the cookies...or any of the previous activities.

So the kids watched Dora on netflix, which is also based on our theme. Sort of. Vaguely.

Viva Mexico!