Saturday, June 14, 2008

Early Father's Day

Terence and Mia couldn't wait to give Curt their father's day gifts. I agreed to let them give their presents to him this morning instead of waiting until tomorrow. They both made some great presents at school for their Papa (this gets a bit confusing as 'Papa' is what they call Curt's dad but Papa is Dad in French). Mia decided to hide the CD (with about 25 recorded songs that her and her class are singing in French) and the beautiful card that she made. She designed a treasure map to help Curt locate the 'treasures' that she hid in 2 different locations around the house.



The treasure map.


Mia explaining the treasure map by saying, 'Here is your bed and the pillows. One of the presents is there. Here is the path from your bed to the fireplace. Your other present is in there. Okay, go try and find them."


On the hunt.


Terence also made some really cool things. The key chain has our entire family drawn out on it. He explained that they could draw anything on this large plastic rectangle. Then, his teacher, Celine, put it in a machine and shrunk it down, connected a key chain ring to it and VOILA! He also made a mosaic mirror during one of his field trips this week to an artist's home. He loved going out there and didn't even mind that it replaced his favorite class: Gym. He said the artist also spoke Hungarian, French and English like him and they spoke all 3 to each other (I think he liked fooling his classmates). He also loved all the cherry trees in the artist's garden. He has an interest in art but not necessarily talent or need to do it. He is just interested in the creation and methods and found it fascinating to learn and watch this artist in action. I still don't know who exactly the artist is. Only his 1st grade class went (not with either of the other two 1st grade classes in his school). Hope to find out more details from a friend this week.



Holding 2 of the 3 presents he gave his dad this morning. He also made a great card that he wrote out a note in. Will scan and forward to all of you later this weekend.

In the meantime, Happy Father's Day to all of you dads!!!! Have a great weekend.