Just another crazy week...

So, I probably should start out by explaining what in the world Katie was doing... We went to Hancock fabrics on Thursday night to just look around. We like to go and see the craft projects and just look around in general. Well, Katie wanted to get some fabric of her own - after all I was buying some - so I caved and let her. When we got home and started watching Project Runway Katie decided that she was going to make her own outfit out of her new fabric. Then she found my Sarah Palin wig and the rest was hilarious. She'll love these pictures someday I'm sure.

Katie had her first field trip this week at school. She got to go to Indian creek and thought that she was going to get to tag some butterflies. She reported that she had fun, but that she did not get to tag any butterflies - only the people who work at the park get to actually tag them. But, she did see two monarch butterflies on the way home while riding the bus....

She also got her Homework Notebook this week. It is actually a planner that they are working with the kids. She has "homework" that she has to write in there every night and her parent has to initial it when she gets it done. She is so excited and I think that it is pretty neat way to get kids used to using a planner.

I found out this week that we are indeed going to get a new Juvenile Law Center. This will house the Juvenile Courts, Juvenile Probation, Juvenile Clerk of Court, Juvenile County Attorneys... It will not be ready for another 18 months, so until then we are going to be at the Mall of Justice. The funniest thing about our new Juvenile Law Center is that it is being built by the Flying Weinie, a hot dog restaurant that everyone knows in Cedar Rapids. So, we are moving out of the Mall so that we get more respect, but they put us by the Flying Weinie... Whatever!!

And in closing, I wanted to share that I found the fire extinguishers at work on Friday. Some young kid comes into the Mall of Justice and asks for a fire extinguisher because his car is on fire in the parking lot. Have to admit that I didn't have a clue where any of them were. So, I asked our Linn County Deputy and she got one right away for him. It was just his engine on fire and the extinguisher worked... He probably shouldn't have been parking in the Judges spots, but maybe he had no choice???