a million ways to peel a potato...

 and this seems like the least comfortable, it made me laugh.

Mimi and Greg switched glasses for a minute to see if I would notice.  It took me a minute for sure :)

Chess

We should play it more often, but there's just too many things to do everyday!

Yoda and Greg spent the day at a chess tournament a few weeks ago.  They both had a great time! 

Smile, the Musical

As I was putting together the post about the musical that Mimi was in last month, I realized I never posted about the musical that Parker was in last fall!

I don't have a lot of photos, it was too intimidating to take photos during this one.  But here are some fun photos from afterward...

Parker played "Freddy", a naughty teenager that gets into some trouble.  He had fun and did a great job!

Singin' in the Rain

Mimi had a blast as Dexter in Singin' in the Rain.  I do not get how/why my kiddos like to be on stage, but they do.  Even little Yoda whispered "I want to be on stage crew, cause I'm quick and quiet"

One of the dad's took some amazing photos!

Her character gets to yell and be frustrated.  Basically perfect for our Mimi! 

Head shot :)

 

Even our couch made it into the performance!  

Below is the scene they were doing... 

Wax Museum

As mentioned before, Yoda learned all about Orville Wright for his wax museum project.  To see Mimi's and Parker's, click here...

 It's not easy to hear anything, but he really wanted a video ...

New word by Yoda

Luxury + Wonderful = Luxerful
It can be used in a sentence when describing a luxerful hotel, for example! 

Paris

Our Parker is across the world in France right now. 

Hopefully he will tell us tons when he gets back and he'll have loads of photos.  But for how, he's the smiling hooded kid in the back. 

So Much Pokemon

Pokemon is relentless, just when I think we've out grow it, it comes back again.  This is a book that Mimi and Yoda were looking through and Mimi thought this was the best Pokemon ever.  (Sorry to those that I already shared this with)

"Lick -y-tongue"

We got a good laugh out of it!  

Splat

Our family office needed a major clear-out, I'll blog about that soon, but one night while it was still a major mess I had a meeting at my house.  I ran around like a mad woman cleaning as much as I could to make the house look presentable.  Then I realized that I had a few minutes left, so I decided to stack the fruit in my new hanging wire and chain fruit basket... then SPLAT!  

The chain broke and the lemons, tomatoes, dates, oranges and clementines were EVERYWHERE!  Even the fresh flowers were now a mess on the floor.

I turned around in a panic, stepped on and squashed the clementine on the far right.  oh, boy! 

One more from Dayton

Mimi loves little Lego sets and Space, so she got herself a little-space-guy-Lego set from the gift shop in Dayton :)

Trip to Dayton

For 3rd grade, the students pick and learn about an influential person.  They do tons of research, find a costume and present everything at their "Wax Museum".  Yoda picked Orville Wright, and he talks about him almost everyday.

So for Spring Break it seemed like a great idea to visit Dayton and see all the sights that are preserved there about the Wright bothers and airplanes as well.

 Yoda learning about all the different directions a plane can go.

 Memphis Bell

 Greg thought it was so cute how Yoda brought along his camera to take his own photos.

 Stealthy...

 Running away from a bomb!

 At the Wright's bicycle shop.

Screen time

We try to keep screen-time at home at a minimum since the kiddos seem to get plenty at school.  But Parker asked so coyly if he could watch a 30 minute long commercial for Nintendo on a Tuesday, I couldn't say no.  He was even chatting with friends while watching it all together. 

And one day I was watching my sister's blog with videos of her adorable and clever son, and thought I ought to include the kiddos.  Couldn't keep it to myself!