Taking the Scenic Route

#164 Pink Lemonade Love. The drink of choice for summertime. Zora declared “mmmmm—nummy dowew (sour)”

Daddy as Playground. They were supposed to be calming down for bed.

And one of my favorite son

#162 Rubic’s Cube exploration. Zane found some Rubic’s cube demos on YouTube this afternoon and spent over an hour watching videos on how to create different designs and then reset it.

#160 The Two Roberts. My folks came up today when our Mountaineer wouldn’t start. (It was fine, just needed a new battery, and our unemployment insurance came in the afternoon mail so we didn’t even have to borrow money). When Grandma was reading “Walter and the Farting Dog” to Zora, she insisted that it wasn’t the two robbers, but the two Roberts. One of the guys does resemble Robert….sort of. lol.

#159 Polygon Drawing. Zane’s current obsession is determining what is and isn’t a polygon. He drew a whole bunch of drawings that resembled the polygon pictures in the Miquon math book, then drew this picture, describing which shapes are polygons and which aren’t.

#155 Friends.

the focus wasn’t quite right, but I still like this one too…

One more game of Carcassonne with the kids today. It was a lot of fun.

Zane playing wii with the boys

#154 Five Kids in the School Room

Robert & his kids came over for the afternoon and overnight.  The kids had a blast.  We made homemade pizza, played Carcassonne, and watched movies.

The princesses and their Daddys head to the store for supper ingredients.

Playing

#153 Caught in the Rain.

And a few more…

Heading inside.

#151 The Knight Token for the win.

The Catan Card game is SO much fun.  We were saving it to play in Germany, but that’s not happening, so we broke it out tonight.  It is for two players, unlike the regular Catan game (which is for a group), and is a nice combination of (some) luck and (mostly) strategy.  It moves fairly fast once you get the hang of it.  You have to get 12 “victory points” and if you earn the knight token (by having the strongest knights) it is worth one of the 12 points.

Here is the winning hand of the evening.

#150 Snuggles with Oma

Mom and Dad came up to loan us the money for Zane’s Nintendo DS.  While the guys were out at the local Gamestop, Zora got some Oma snuggles.

While they were here, anybody who knows my dad will get a kick out of the fact that he couldn’t help but try and fix the backhoe toy (one of the hydraulic lifts isn’t working right).  He runs the real thing for the township.