Sewing

Ali's been on a sewing kick again lately. She can often be found in her room creating amazing things.

Potato Heads

He loves them.

Tech Kids

They've figured out how to play in each others' worlds...this is a big deal, folks.

Take a Picture

At least once a day Jake will say, "Take a picture!" Yes, Jake. Here are some of my favs.

Free Birds

Ali has started letting her birds out of their cage sometimes and it is fun to see where they perch--even on the edge of a piece of paper!

Carousel

There may be many things Jake won't like about being so much younger than the rest of the kids in the family, but there are also serious up-sides. The Carousel at the mall is one great example: when the other three were little enough to want to go on it, $5 a ticket times three kids was just way too much for a two minute ride. But $5 for one? That I can handle. Plus, he's too cute.

World War 2-Opoly

Logan had a school assignment to make a monopoly board revolving around an interest of his. The requirement was that they make a board much smaller than the actual game board and they had about a week to work on it. 

Well, Logan loves Monopoly and plays it a lot with his dad (much to his dad's delight), so a small board wouldn't do. He came home from school the first day they got the assignment, pulled out the real gameboard for dimensions and ideas, and then spent 4-5 hours creating this masterpiece: World War 2-Opoly. Part of his excitement in making this was the idea of how his teacher and classmates would react, and when he brought it to school the next day he wasn't dissapointed. Everyone was in awe and he "got lots of fame," as he put it, and the teacher laminated it for him as well as took a picture of it to show future classes.  It's so fun to see them get excited about and work hard on things!