Nice note from Joshua

Joshua made our bed this morning and left us a lovely note and candy to boot. Love this little boy and his kind heart.

Finding a needle in a haystack

The boys will still spend hours if not days looking through their ENTIRE lego collection bin by bin for a certain lego piece they need for a creation. Both Annette and I admire their perseverance.

Sleeping

Sometime before 6am in the mornings, the boys always manage to sneak into our bed.

Before bedtime last night, Joshua was full of facts and questions he wanted to share with us:
"Mom, do you know what dark matter is?"
"I want to be a scientist or an engineer!"

Piano lessons

At first Joshua wasn't excited about the idea of piano lessons, but he was all smiles after his first lesson. It was like love at first sight.

It  inspired us to find a piano on Craigslist to bring home.
Now the boys go to the piano after dinner and play duets, learn each other's songs, enjoy teaching each other, and say to me and Annette, "Let us entertain you!"
Brilliant, I love it.

Reading Tear

Joshua is on a reading tear. Finished book one of the Chronicles of Narnia this morning. Annette bought this set for her children even before she was married.

Christmas cards assembly line

My little elves

I like Samuel's multiple labels on fingers technique.

4 days before Christmas, the boys help us with sending out our Christmas cards for the year.

Pennies going extinct

Conversation this morning:
J:  Dad, pennies are going to be extinct!
R:  Oh, really, why do you think so? (thinking he might be thinking of inflation and how it'll be hard to buy anything for a penny)
J:  Because there are so many souvenir penny crushers!  All the pennies are going to be wiped out!
Child logic.  I love it.