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Mother's Day and More 2016


Hannah had her first art show a couple of weeks ago. Here is the art that she chose to display. 



A reception was held in conjunction with the show and all the parents and children stood in the atrium and had cookies and conversed while people looked at the art.



Famed cultural theorist and ethnographer Pierre Bourdieu would have so much to say about the way in which children are apprenticed into the habitus of the middle class at such events.


Hannah and I at the show.


When Hannah went to LegoLand Discovery Center in Kansas City the ticket I bought let us back into the aquarium if we went within 30 days. So as soon as I got back from AERA we went. It was a really nice day. 






On Friday before Mother's Day I took Hannah to a research site were I was inviting people to participate in my study. She was dressed like Minnie Mouse handing out cookies and when people came up to get a cookie I told them about my study. I was able to find quite a few people that way. In order to meet the confidentiality requirements from the Institutional Review Board, I don't have a picture, but it was a fun way to kick off the weekend.


We also did our 3rd Temple Run in Liberty, Missouri. Brian pushed the stroller again and I ran ahead, finishing in 29:50. Not too bad, I thought. When they were done Hannah and I doubled back and then ran some on the path, finishing again so Hannah could cross as a runner.



For Mother's Day this year Hannah brought me breakfast in bed. It was cereal and orange juice. She saw Peppa Pig do it for her mother and thought should could do it too. We also made this cake together. It is confetti with confetti frosting.





Here's some pictures of us just before church. She as full of trepidation about singing in Sacrament Meeting and started to say she wasn't going to go to church. I told her that she needed to come to church with us, but she didn't need to sing if she didn't want to. When we arrived at church and they called up the kids, she climbed off of the bench and headed up to the pulpit where she stood prominently ... right behind a plant. The bishop saw her and moved her to a place where we could see her face and the music started. Her eyes darted between me and the chorister and slowly she started to sing a few words. I smiled and clapped my hands softly. She smiled and waved. The first song ended and the second began. She looked at me and sang a few more words. When it ended, she walked triumphantly back to the bench to collect her hugs and kisses.

Later that night my friend came over for a turkey dinner, rolls, a vegetable and some cake. Hannah gave me a necklace, and some  crispy M&Ms. I took a 2-hour nap. and that was Mother's Day.

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