The boys got cool science kits from Grandma and Grandpa for Christmas. L’s kit is ‘Light’ and X’s is ‘Electricity’. They have paper wheels to colour, motors, alligator clip wires and more. Very cool!
X made morse code with beeps and L made it with light. Can you tell what the message says?
It’s amazing what happens when I leave the boys to their own devices. Not that this is an incredible example but I find it’s full off imagination and innovation as well as classic childhood ‘doings’.
A fort plus chess. A chess game plus some new pieces. How they can tell who is now who is beyond me. But that’s okay. It’s not for me to know. It’s for children’s brains to create, assign and understand.
It’s for me to love and to always be reminded how precious childhood is.
It’s our first cucumber of the season! We were all so excited that we ate it right away – even though it is a pickling cucumber.
Eating the cucumber made me feel like a little girl again and I remembered all the pickles my grandma would make. I felt like I was suddenly back in her kitchen again crunching down on the freshest cuke ever. Almost like time never passed. I like that.
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One of the boys said, “Mommy, you forgot to peel it first”. So I happily explained that we don’t have to peel the ones that we grow in our garden.
And they happily ate their very first cucumber from our garden. Thank you, Grandma, for passing the love of a garden onto your daughter who has perhaps unintentionally passed it onto me as I do to my children. May they do the same.
Yum!
I haven’t gone into my tackle box of art supplies in a long time so the boys hadn’t seen the contents. I should have opened it a long time ago as L quickly broke out the calligraphy nibs and ink. X, eager to try as well but I only had one holder for the nibs. He simply grabbed one of the feathers from his collection on the window sill, dipped it into the well of ink and started writing it old school. Kewl stuff, my boys.
Gotta love being a kid. That glorious time before life has put up imaginary boundaries on your intuitive ways of problem solving. So free and full of life and all the wonders it offers!
He even whisked them, spread the oil in the pan and poured in the eggs!
Oh, and not a single piece of shell fell in the mix!
We finally got our act together to get the Xman baptized. Whew! He was a little reluctant at first but when I told him there would be a little celebration afterward with cake he was all for it. He did great at the church, no shyness at all. Really proud of my boy. It was a wonderful day, weather and all.
Here are a few pics for now. Will post more when I have time to edit!
Oh, and the boys LOVE the telescope – they could hardly wait to use it! Thank you, Godparents! 🙂
~Blessings~
This last one is an iPhone shot of the leaves on the trees out the boys window with the telescope. Just incase it’s hard to tell… 😉
Guess who won? The youngest!
Xman just learned this today on his own! First song! I love it!
X-man reading his card – the whole thing!
L thrilled about stickers!
Thank you, Nanna and Pappa!!!
