Happy Leap Day

You might have woken up this morning feeling like it was March, but thanks to leap year we get one extra day of February this year. I just read that the extra day every four years isn't quite accurate, and that the year 4000, which should be a leap year, will not be a leap year, so that we can re-adjust and make sure we're back on track with the actual year which is 365.242374 days long. Ok, enough trivia.

I got back from a work trip to Florida and brought the kids a surprise that got me some funny looks from the TSA guys at the airport. On my way to the airport in Ft. Lauderdale, I noticed that my taxi driver had a tree branch in his trunk with about 5 or 6 big green coconuts still on it.

He could tell I was impressed and offered me one, which I gladly accepted. So, there I am at the airport, suitcase in one hand and coconut in the other. Anyway, we cut it open today and Jake was really excited to see what was inside. I was kind of curious what I'd find, too, since I hadn't seen a green coconut before. Turns out it had a good two glasses of coconut water in it, but the 'meat' hadn't ripened yet and was too fibrous to eat. Here's Jake at the table, scraping out the sweet jelly-like interior:

Team Lightning McQueen

I made mac n' cheese for the kids (and me) today. As we were sitting around the table, Jake looked at me and said, "Look, Sadie has tiny mac n' cheese and you have mac n' cheese and I have mac n' cheese!" I said, "Yeah!" Then he looked at me with a sideways glance, gave me a thumbs up and said, "Its Teamwork!"

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