My grandma and your grandma

Dean's mom got to come for a nice visit last week, and we did lots of fun stuff

Jack putting out his version of the welcome mat

Harry giving everyone a little schoolin'

Uncle Les even joined us for a trip to a science museum

Harry doing a little engineering

Grandma snapping Jack's successful building

They even got to do an ecology lesson with microscopes and note-taking

Harry and Daddy working to decide the habitat of these bugs

and we even hit the lanes for a few games

It was a really nice visit - thanx for coming to see us!

Trad and Anon's Iko Iko

Word Up!

Did I mention I love sleep, especially theirs! Restorative powers, and all that - sign me up if today is any indication of how amazing a few good hours of shut eye can be.

This afternoon, they decided to play school again, and somehow Jack's morphed into "Ho, ho, ho, I'm a Santa here to bring you all these things."

Harry just enjoyed the chance to pack his lunchbox with the goodies from their cash register and run around with the backpack and lunchbox.
And they kept it up tonite before bed. I think these may be the first real words they've written completely on their own (insert big smiley proud mommy face)
I was writing words for them to read then they asked if they could write their favorite words, and here's what they did:
Jack started with the S-H then went back to put the W-I in for 'wish'

Harry's been wild about 'to' in all its forms - he loves finding it on signs and in other words (he also found 'cat' in a bug catcher that we bought them Saturday, so maybe he has a future in word games?). This really fits his personality, he always wants to know where we are going!

Cameo song