March 2010 part 2

Trucks and blocks. What more do little boys need?



I love this picture; earlier this evening I went in their room and Levi was asleep, and I covered him up. Later when I went in, he had his bear "Teddy" in his arm. He loves Teddy, he usually makes him a pillow or covers him with one of his blankets.

I made job charts. They've always helped do some jobs, but I realized Ian has been doing the same jobs for a couple of years, and it was time to let his brothers do those jobs and Ian do harder ones. The way I made it, I can customize it to each day- if I do laundry that day, then the laundry jobs are put in, on garbage day, the garbages need to be taken out, etc. Ian was really excited at first, he's getting less so as he has to continually do the new "harder" jobs. Caleb isn't excited at all, except to play with the pictures, and Levi sometimes is willing, sometimes not, to work.

One day as I was feeding Levi and Caleb chocolate ice cream, one of them (I can't even remember which) said, "what if the whole bowl was made of chocolate?" So, one day, I made chocolate bowls. This is what happens when the whole bowl is made of chocolate - chocolaty boys! But they were good.

Levi and Ian were so proud of the city they built, they needed a picture taken. They built buildings and roads, and the bandannas are concrete that has just been poured.

St. Patrick's Day biscuits!

Imagination is always running freely around here! Our house has turned into a fire station, our van is the fire engine, if I ask them to get their shoes on, they tell me they aren't shoes, but fire boots. And of course, the stairs they are sliding down is the fire pole.

Ian at the science fair with his display of "what makes pancakes fluffy?" There were some neat projects. I should have been taking notes for ideas for next year! They had a scavenger hunt kids could do, where they find a project that uses rocks, plants, electricity, etc., and there was a drawing for several science-related toys. Ian won one! He got a dinosaur fossil he gets to excavate out of a brick and put together. He was so excited he won.

This isn't the greatest picture, as I took it out the window so I wouldn't scare away the birds, but this was taken out our back window. We've always had a pheasant or two wandering in our yard, but I hadn't yet seen so many together; they were just strolling down the neighbor's driveway.