Category: Family, Parenting

Tomorrow, June 21st, is “DILO Day” on Flickr.

DILO Day is a photographic celebration of “a day in the life”.

The idea is simply to take 5 pictures on the designated day (tomorrow), upload them to flickr, and tag them “dilojun08”.

The theme is, appropriately enough: GREEN.

Why do we love photographs so? Because a photo is a single moment in time. Every moment, when we have the opportunity to examine it closely, is magic. It is when we live our lives as a series of examined moments that we achieve happiness.

Want to play? Head over to the DILO group home page and join the group!

Day #1 was yesterday: Hit the library.

Day #2: Act out a story.

(Another slideshow. Click through to site if viewing on RSS. Clicking on the title should take you to the gallery if you’d like to see the photos larger.)

We had a Mad Tea Party, a la Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. We dressed up, made high tea, played games and danced, and then looked at different versions of the same text. If I had thought of it sooner, I would have borrowed some supplies for croquet. The kids were really involved for hours and then cheerfully cleaned up afterwards.

I think this would be fun to do again, acting out other stories, preferably incorporating food: Goldilocks and the Three Bears, maybe, or Stone Soup, or Blueberries for Sal. In the Night Kitchenis a possibility if we ignore the nudity. Umm, Green Eggs and Ham?

I’m a bit limited as I’ll have to keep the literature to the three year old’s level.

Anyway, fun! Tell me if you have any other good stories to act out on a summer afternoon.

I’ll try to post a cheap or free outdoor boredom buster every day so check back for more!

Then we went to the store to purchase copious amounts of flour, sugar, butter, and vanilla for the Great American Bake Sale. (More on that tomorrow.)

Then Cassidy had her photo taken by a photographer from the News Journal.

She cleaned that window for fifteen minutes.

AND she got to sit on the counter. I’ve never seen her happier.

Why is there a photographer in my kitchen?

It’s really not that exciting.

To make it exciting, I am Not Telling.

Are you curious now?