Berit is in Shakespeare camp at the CO Shakespeare Festival for a half day every weekday - it's a kick. She plays one of the three witches from Macbeth in the performance they'll do at the end. This past weekend she memorized Sonnet 116:

Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments; love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove...

Griffin and I did a crystal growing experiment, but so far I am questioning its success. He fell asleep watching SHARK WEEK.

Happy 11th Birthday Berit!

The other day, Griffin and I were doing some "legomation" with the legos and some lego star wars people we have. I set up our digital camera on my tripod and we shot still pictures of the lego people moving.

He was pretty into it, so I (against my better judgement) left the camera on the tripod there by the legos in the living room - in case he wanted to mess with it some more. Griffin is pretty good with the camera. But his judgement wasn't so good either when he took the camera on the tripod across the alley to his friend's house and ended up dropping it and breaking it.

I was not happy. In fact, I was obviously (and vocally) angry about it. We made up, of course, but before that - here is the note he left me (click image to enlarge).

Her name is Bellatrix Betelgeuse, and we got her yesterday. Sure - it sounds like we named her for the Harry Potter reference, but the names are the names of stars - Bellatrix and Betelgeuse being (I believe) the two shoulders of Orion's belt (her parents are named after two of Jupiter's moons).

She is six weeks old, has extra toes (polydactyl), and has quickly become the most popular member of the family.

Evidently, polydactyl kittens are in high demand, as her siblings have been adopted by familes as far flung as Colorado Springs and Florida. And get this - Melanie Griffith and Antonio Banderas sent their help down from Aspen to adopt two of Bellatrix's siblings. How about them degrees of separation?