Monday, March 03, 2008

The things kids do...

Harry has been channeling his engineering side lately. He has been building a lot and "inventing"things. His inventions seem to all be in the "3000 series".

This is the "Super Saver 3000". He called me into the room and said "look mom! I made a super saver 3000, it saves things." As he is showing me how it can lift arm cap off of the sofa, "See it saves things!" :)
Here he is showing is upgrade, the smaller one, his original, Super Saver 3000, next to his upgrade the 5000 series :) Where he comes up with these things?!
We celebrated Aunt Jessica's birthday last weekend. Here Harry is showing Grandpa how to cut the cake.
Now instructing :)
Ahhh...My kids favorite party position, black olives on their fingers...
What a difference a day makes! The day before almost all the snow was gone, grass showing, pavement was dry. We woke up to this. Harry just loved helping daddy.

They were shoveling like they were getting paid for it. If you can see in the corner of the picture, you can see a blue chair. That's Harry's summer chair, they were getting out all of their summer toys as if it was 80 degrees out. They were excited to be playing outside. This winter it has either been too cold, or they have been sick with colds.

Ahhh...Harry's new LOVE! Tinker toys! Well, these are called Fiddle stix, they are just a little bigger in size. Andy has been wanting to get these for Harry for some time now, but he has been too young. After he was playing so much and building so much with the other plastic toys we had had for him, Andy saw his opportunity. The things that Harry has come up with have been very interesting. His first thing he built was a vacuum cleaner. Yesterday daddy and Harry built the "Cooling Fan 3000, then the upgraded version 3050, which had about 2 more pulley's. It was quite the contraption, he played with that one all day.
When Amelia was napping one day, Harry was playing so nice with his trains, he looked so peaceful on the couch.

High Noon Tea. Amelia yesterday morning set out full tea. We had our fancy hats, of course. (Mine has seen much better days...Looks like I am in the market for a big tea hat now.) This was her first tea party for grown ups, before she was just entertaining her Care Bears.

"Knife for your toast?"
Amelia waking up from naptime.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Wow...she's really moved up in the Tea Party world! Or should I say that YOU have now that it's you and not Care Bears! LOL!!

Great pictures! I can't wait to see the kids again once we start coming over more in a month or two!

Nicole Wickstrom said...

It looks like both our boys are into building things. How fun! And your tea party with Nina is adorable...do you think with 2 boys I'll be able to pull that off?!?!?!