Love Potion 31

Always have to go to Baskin Robbins in February to get Love Potion #31.  BEST. ICE CREAM. EVER.

Happy Valentine's Day

Happy Valentine's Day from my two little cupids who can never sit still and think EVERYTHING is HILARIOUS!!!

Lulu picked the perfect Valentine's Day book for these two silly boys!

Racing BristleBots

Sam's school had a science fair this year for K-6.  Sam picked Racing BristleBots as his project.  Building robots sounded like a lot of fun.  I enjoyed working on it just as much as he did.  He was so excited about it that he took it for show and tell a few weeks before it was due.  The only painful part was helping Sam type the paper.  I couldn't actually type it or format it for him, so I just sat next to him over the course of a few days (totalingabout 4 to 5 hours) and told him what to click to add a title page, table of contents, headings, images, etc.  Of course Sam doesn't know how to type, he's only 7 and in the second grade so it didn't seem like a skill he needed yet.  I'm thinking a fun typing program  will be in our near future.  The display board was easy to build since he had typed the paper instead of writing it out by hand.  He's already ready for his next science project!

Little Rookies Part Two

This week went much better.  At least Ben didn't cry!  We put Ben in figure skates instead of hockey skates and went to open skate before Little Rookies to warm up.  Ben is still not loving it, but he's tolerating it.  I think all the equipment is just a bit too much for them.  They'd rather just do the open skate and have fun with their friends.

Green Belt

Sam is still going to karate twice a week and took his green belt test today.  He loves grappling but doesn't much care for sparring because he doesn't like wearing all the pads.  He smiles so much during class that you can't wipe the grin off his face.  It's all just one big, fun game to him!

Honesty

Sam's homework

Little Rookies

Hockey equipment fitting for Little Rookies.  It's a free four week intro to hockey.

The equipment was HUGE.  I ended up putting Ben in all of Sam's old gear and Sam wore most of the stuff they had sized for Ben.

They were sooo excited!

Big mistake!  I put Ben in hockey skates.  He couldn't stay up on them. And after falling a few times he started doing what I called spaghetti legs.  The coaches would try to stand him up and he just wouldn't even try to stand up.  Awesome.

Sam had fun and did a great job in the "advanced" group.