Flags

"Can I make more flags for school today?"
"Yes, yes you can."

Kid created worksheets

Princess Sparkley wrote a math worksheet for Little Guy the other day.  In return, Little Guy created a panda math worksheet for her.  He sounded out the words on his own.

Cinnamon Roll Factory

My tradition, since I went to college, is to make cinnamon rolls for General Conference.  While the kids were watching Conference, Buddy drew these pictures.

Notice the details on this!  The cinnamon roll boxes with open lids waiting to get filled and closed.  The conveyor belt. The little house shaped compartment where the lids get closed.  The guys with the dollies loading the truck and airplane. 

Myster Baby as Captured by PS

And, having seen this mom's artistic blog (http://milasdaydreams.blogspot.com/),PS created her own scenes, just not always with a napping baby.

Comics Drawn at Church

Space Shuttle Discovery

The Space Shuttle Discovery is retiring and will be displayed at the Air and Space Museum at Dulles Airport so it had to fly here, piggyback on a 747 from Florida.  It did a bunch of fly overs in DC and up near the airport, but we're sort of on the flight path to Dulles, so rather than fight crowds, we found a big empty parking lot with a big sky view and waited for it.  And we saw it.  It flew directly over us, really low once and then circled back by in the distance a second time.  It had a little NASA jet escorting it. 

I took some pictures with the camera the first time, and the second time I grabbed our video camera but it was pretty far away that time so the video isn't great.

We came home and watched it land online while the kids drew pictures. Here are the kids' renditions:

Lego/Shuttle 3D art

 by Buddy

 by Buddy

 by Princess Sparkley

 These last three are by Little Guy.  The 3rd picture is all the fighter jet bad guys.  There weren't really any fighter jet bad guys.  It all went very smoothly and without incident.  He just likes bad guys.  Lately, this includes him randomly telling us "I like the Gadianton Robbers."  That's the part of the Book of Mormon were in as a family.

Spelling

Little Guy spells.  The other day he colored the words "Happy Birthday, Nick!" for a cousin.  The next day he asked me where that paper was so he could use it to write the words again.  I'd thrown it away after we'd taken a picture of the sign and emailed it to Nick.  I told him I could help him spell the words again (I was in the kitchen making dinner).  I went to look to see where he was with the words so I could help, figuring he had maybe sounded out H-A and maybe a P.  He'd written Happy all by himself.

Then, the other day he made me this baby card.  He sounded out Baby as Babe.  Then he wrote mom and dad and big and smol on his own.  Then he tried to write baby again and wrote dab.  He's got some problems with confusing lowercase b and lowercase d as well as writing things completely (mirror-image) backwards, which is apparently more common in left-handers learning to write.  He drew a picture of the baby small and big.  They are oddly colored because he was completely coloring their skin and it was too dark to leave room for eyes and a mouth, etc.

March Randomness

Little Guy and an X-Wing or some other Star Wars creation from Duplos.

Dr. Seuss Thing 1 and Thing 2 cupcakes

Little Guy requested a book be read to him, PS and Buddy decided they wanted to listen in as well.

B teaching Little Guy to play Minesweeper.

Little Guy's pirate ship.

A monkey pirate ship.

He's ours after all.  Buddy has finally taken an interest in reading.

Buddy: pre-haircut

Buddy: post-haircut

Hot Chocolate Art

The kids decorated these mugs the other day and wrote something about winter or cold weather on the back.  Princess Sparkley helped Little Guy by writing "Tomorrow I start with a Clean Blanket" which is a quote from Charlie Brown since in real life, Little Guy's hot chocolate cup is Charlie Brown cartoon that I believe says, "Happiness is a clean blanket."

Winter Art

Snowglobe (idea from here)

If I lived in a snow globe... I would make hot chocolate and go sledding every day. I would also play with my Husky!

If I lived in a snowglobe... it would snow all day and I would probably build snowmans.

If I lived in a snowglobe... I would drink lots of hot chocolate because it snows every day in there. I would also play in the snow a lot. I would probably make a HUGE sledding hill.

Snowmen from a different perspective (idea from here)

by Princess Sparkley

by Buddy

by Little Guy

We had some homeschool friends over for a low key

Christmas party when we made the above snowmen. 

 

And I had the kids draw a roof top scene from The Night Before Christmas. (idea from my brain)

by Princess Sparkley

by Little Guy (he didn't have room for reindeer so he drew an engine on his sled. And Santa is throwing snowballs.)

by Buddy

Next week we're doing this and drinking hot chocolate.

Little Guy's Turkey

The turkey is in the middle.  I can't remember what he told me the other two are.  He also drew an excellent Sponge Bob Square Pants on this trip that I need to take a picture of.