100th Day of School

The 100th day of school was last week. Daphne's teacher asked the kids in her class to complete the sentence, "I wish I had 100..." and Daphne's answer was toy trains. Her response to "I would not want 100..." was brothers!

Heart Pizza

Whenever we do homemade pizza Daphne always wants her
crust in the shape of a heart. Tonight she wanted heart-shaped
pepperoni too. Turned out pretty cute!

LEGOs

The kids got quite a few LEGO sets for Christmas and so we have been building them as we have time. Tyler is able to build the sets for his age level without help but he still likes us to sit with him and find the pieces he needs while he assembles.

Tyler with his Star Wars AT-ST

Daphne at School

Pinewood Derby

Last weekend was Pinewood Derby for Tyler's cub scout pack. Michael helped Tyler shape his car, add the weights, and wheels and I helped him with the painting. Tyler designed his car for speed this year and went with a sleek coat of red plus some details.

Awards- big trophies for the top 3 fastest, small trophies for the
popular aesthetic vote (e.g. best pop culture car, best scout
spirit), and medals for the top 2 fastest in each rank

The wolf rank sits in the VIP area to watch their cars race

Each car got to race on each of the 4 tracks

Tyler's car came in second in this heat. Tyler won one heat

and came in second in two other heats, but the competition

was stiff and he came in 4th overall in the Wolf rank.

Our den: Roman, David, Ryan,
Matthias (hidden), Tyler, and Jackson

Hair Cut

I took the kids in for haircuts and Daphne said she wanted her hair cut short. She actually showed the hairdresser that she wanted her hair cut to above her ears. I swayed her to a shoulder-length bob. I also suggested bangs because Daphne has been resisting letting me style her hair so that it doesn't fall in her face. The bangs have definitely helped.

This is the tie-dye shirt that Daphne
made at her birthday party.

Daphne's Birthday Party

The weekend before last we had a tie-dye shirt birthday party at the Art Garage. Daphne had been to the Art Garage for a party before and loved it because she loves art projects. All of the kids made either a bulls-eye or swirl style tie-dye shirt during the party. Daphne thought it was awesome.

Learning how to put rubber bands on the shirt to make patterns

Adding the dye