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| All of the boys decided to paint rainbows for your anniversary (ies). Aaron painted this one. |
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| Alexander worked hard on his rainbow for you. |
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| And Andrew painted you a rainbow from Cheetah Bear Land. |
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| Aaron turned himself into a camera. Here he is "taking pictures." |
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| Alexander's coloring |
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| Both reading Little House books |
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| Andrew was pretty excited to finish his first piano book |
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| Andrew drew Cheetah Bear City |
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| Andrew drew a Bakson |
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| Baking soda mixing with vinegar |
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| Will create carbon dioxide and blow up a balloon |
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| Building and playing of the Hobbit memory game |
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| Creating static electricity |
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| And attracting confetti |
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| Alexander was so cute. He wanted to write letters to the Grandparents too. So he diligently tried his best to write "A, D, L, and M." |
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| So we made some more business progress this past week. Nate got the official stamp for our business, and some other official book, and we all got very official pictures taken. This is where we started to try to get our pictures taken, but we ended up having to go to another place. Funny story, but too long for here. At least the kids were really good sports about our adventure. |
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| Grape skin monster |
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| Aaron's history drawings. Romans plundering the temple and the dispersion of the Jews. |
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| Andrew drew the birth, death, and life of History's Central Character. |
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| Love train |
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| So on our adventure to get our pictures taken, we also took the kids to the park to make it more fun. |
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| And the park is really pretty right now |
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| The older two also got to bounce in the bounce house. Alexander fell asleep, but perhaps it was for the best as he might have gotten trampled. |
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| It is a huge bounce house. |
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| Tea party |
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| Towels for the business. Now we just need a sink or a bucket, and something to hang the towel on... |
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| Kids like moving pictures |
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| They'll even watch political speeches with rapt attention |
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| "I grumpy." |
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| Aaron reading history to Andrew (while Andrew builds swords). |
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| So proud he can do some laundry all by himself |
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| Here is one rack Alexander did all by himself |
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| Alexander's coloring |
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| Andrew chose the science experiment (water logged rocks) |
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| See how many marbles the paper towel can hold dry |
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| Then drop water drops on it |
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| and see if it can hold the same |
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| Of course it breaks (The boys loved this experiment and did it three times. Perhaps just because they don't get to use paper towels often?) |
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| Andrew colored this cat to look very much like the cat on the coloring book cover |
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| Andrew drew this great birthday cake. Perhaps he is the next Dr. Suess? |
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| Andrew's chess tutorial diagrams (How to attack! And how to stalemate when it seems all is lost.) {Don't you feel more informed now?} |
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| Condensation window art |
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| Grandpa Jeff reading The Sword in the Tree |
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| Groovy Grandparents showing a video to three grandsons |
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| Nate spent a lot of time traveling and doing paperwork, but he still found time to color with Alexander. |
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| And Nate also took all the boys raspberry picking. We made a peach-raspberry pie. Andrew thought it should say I Love you on the top. |
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| Rediscovered the magnetic Winnie-the-Poohs from Uncle Nathaniel. Aaron decided to wear his. |
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| Sometimes you need an easy dinner. |
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| Three squishy cube chairs made for the playroom at the school. |
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| The older two are trying to get full use out of their free chess site memberships. |
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| They've been watching lots of videos and lessons and playing lots of puzzles and games. |
