Bob the Builder has become a definite favorite around here! They're usually "'struction guys" these days. Caleb has his tool belt on and they're off to build a house.
We had a fun visit from "Flat Matthew" this month (he came from Matthew, Ian's first grade cousin, based on the book Flat Stanley). Ian got to spend the day showing Flat Matthew around our town, wrote back a letter of his adventures, and took pictures to document the day. It was a fun project!
We took Flat Matthew to the Science Center where they sent each other telegraphs.
And he had fun riding a motorcycle, which obviously needed a backhoe for some power. Or perhaps it was being towed?
The weather has been wonderful around here! Hardly winter at all. There is snow on the ground in this picture, but only because that's where it was piled from shoveling. We cut down a tree - or two or three - and some bushes in our front yard, with lots of helpers to haul off the wood.
Warm enough for the park, wearing sweatshirts!
Caleb was using his telescope (tp roll) to watch for cars.
These are out of order, but we painted Ian's room - he helped some, too. I was ready to have the room brighter and turn it into Ian's room, rather than a room painted for another little boy that Ian was just living in.
This is the purple octopus on the wall before we painted. There was also a whale on another wall. Caleb takes naps in Ian's room and sometimes talks about the "purple monster." I'm not sure I'd want to sleep next to him, myself!
There were fish sponge painted all over too, that wouldn't cover up with primer! Thankfully, oil based primer worked wonders (after two coats of regular primer first)!
The finished product! I painted different patterns of stars on each wall, and then Ian got glow-in-the-dark stars and planets for his birthday to hang on the ceiling. It's amazing what white paint, a new, brighter light fixture, and re-arranging the furniture did to lighten up his formerly dark room! It doesn't feel like you're going into a cave anymore.
