Playdate

Alayna got to have a playdate today while her brothers went to a birthday party. We just love this little girl who is full of so much joy and energy. We also figured out that Alayna and her friend were born only two days apart!

Our gymnast

Most days, Alayna can be found wearing her gymnastics outfit under her clothes. This makes it easy to jump into gymnastics mode without much effort. She has been working on this trick the past few days.

She is getting really good!

A new game

This week, Andrew designed a new board game. I've mentioned here several times how much the kids love Sonic. Well, he made up his own Sonic board game. When I came downstairs around 7 a.m., the kids had already been playing it for awhile.

"It's just like Clue," Andrew explained. "No, actually. It's more like Monopoly."

That should give you a good idea of how to play, right?

Glass symphony

Today we were reading in history about the great composers. The author of the history book asked if readers had ever made their own musical instruments, such as "musical glasses."

"What are musical glasses?!" the kids wanted to know. So, we got out the glasses we never use and I showed them how to make music by rubbing the rims. They thought it was great fun, and throughout the day, they would go back in the kitchen to work on their symphony.

It's funny the things you forget about when you usually drink out of plastic cups. ;0

Well, hello!

Sure signs that spring is on its way!

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Check!

The boys have been spending lots of hours doing this lately:

I have to say that this is a sight I absolutely love to see. Instead of asking to watch TV or begging to play the Wii, they run inside and start up a new game of chess. I'm not even sure if they really know all of the rules. They taught themselves to play using a sheet we printed from the Internet.