Phones

We were talking about Darius I from the Persian Empire in history.  He was credited with creating the first mail system to communicate with the 20 provinces within his kingdom.  He spent a lot of time improving roads so the messages could make it to their destination more quickly.  I said that he needed to do that because they couldn't just pick up their cell phones and talk to each other and they didn't have home phones either.  Kate said, "What's a home phone?"  I said, "You know, the phones that hang on walls in a house."  Kate says, "Oh yeah, I think I remember those!"

Drew: Music Critic

On the 1812 Overture:  "Any song that uses cannons is OK by me."

Ben's Blessing at Breakfast

Here's what Ben said for his blessing this morning:

Dear God - Thank you this day. Thank you MaMa.  Thank you Mommy.  Thank you Gram.  Thank youuuuuu Animal play guitar.  Amen.

Big boy chair

Ben's first meal in his big boy chair :)

Drew and Dylan's aircraft carrier

Drew reading to daisy

He's reading "more spaghetti I say" to daisy just because he wants to...

Ben has a new wii game

Grover

Sweet boy

Drew needs his sleep.

Drew's reading for the day

He read his first superhero book.  The words were hard and I wasn't sure if he would make it all the way through, but he did.  The picture of text is the page he read completely on his own - no help from me on any word.

Pics of Ben's lunch

Bear in the chair and applesauce on the table

Ben' lunch

We didn't strap Ben into his booster seat for lunch today, so he first tried carrying his plate of pizza around the house.  We told him he needed to go sit down a couple of times, so he went and got a small stuffed bear.  He put the bear in his seat and said, "Don't eat my food.  I'll go get you some applesauce.  It's yummy."  He got the applesauce and brought it to the bear and said, "There we go.  Sit right there.  I'll go eat my pizza.  Yummy!".  

Kate joins in

:)

Bedtime story

"Mr brown can moo, can you?" was the choice for tonight.

Bikes

New years day enjoying the 60 degree weather