We were able to persuade Goose to sleep in with us this morning. She is still cuddling with Husband. (Hence she isn't trying to disturb me as I type).

Oh the agony and ecstasy of school projects. T-Bone wrote a story which he first titled, A Sharky Tale, but then renamed a more cautious My Ocean Adventure. I worked with him to find pictures of sharks for the purpose of illustration. and then Husband spend h-o-u-r-s enhancing the pictures and finding little diver bodies to match with pictures of T-Bone's head. (Now I'm going to interrupt myself here and say that initially I wanted T-Bone to illustrate the book by hand, but then I realized that playing with graphics on the computer is an excellent way to fulfill one's artistic desires ) Well, Husband is a perfectionist, and tweaked and tweaked and tweaked but finally the pictures were all ready. So we printed the images out onto the special paper provided for us by Studentreasures. Oops. Even though we told the printer that we were printing on photo paper, it still used way too much ink and the pictures were runny. They were cute--they just weren't as crisp. And we had no extra sheets to reprint on. Husband was not happy about this. In the morning he called the company and was told we could go buy more special paper of a special weight and then bring them into school and swap them out with T-Bone's originals. (Of course the book was due this day) But in the end T-Bone thought they were fine and didn't want to go through the extreme measures of replacing them.

I will show one of the pictures in my next post....