Bath time for Ben

He was attacked by birthday cake.

Ben at moes

He loves the sour cream

Long day

Sweet boy.

Snow mountain

For dylans 9th bday

What Drew Said at Breakfast This Morning

Mommy, I really want to go to Kansas (he actually said "Kayansus") so
I can see Granny.

House plans

In our discussion of are and perimeter, I talked about how builders need measurements from plans to figure out the materials they need.  Then, because they were interested, I did a rough drawing of our downstairs house plan and we looked up house plans on the internet.  When I left for basketball, this is what Dylan (purple) and drew (green) spent a long time on.

Drew learning numbers

He knows all of his numbers even in the hundreds, but he still struggles with 16 vs 61, 15 vs 51, etc, so he was reading these sentences to try to figure out these numbers.

After Daddy Daughter Date Night...

I (Sherri) asked Drew: "When are you going to take me on a date?"  After pondering for a little bit, he said, "I can't even drive yet!"

Kate's first closed circuit

Future electrical engineer?  Maybe so.

This was an earlier shot...

Just wallowing in it.

Ben made a mess

He's been cleaning for 30 minutes now...

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 :)