Jacob fell asleep in the car while we were coming home late one day. Whenever I see kids asleep in the car I think that they must be damaging something in their little bodies. Thankfully they seem to have large amounts of cartilage in there to protect them.
I only realized now that he was unsafely restrained in the booster seat. Oops! I wonder if the chocolate he ate just before falling asleep had a soporific effect.
Ben decided to get in on the photo fun. He is also unsafely restrained, but we are parked in a parking lot at this point.
WARNING PHOTOS OF RODENT TO FOLLOWAaron caught yet another rodent with is hands this weekend. Except this one was running down the road while Aaron chased it, stopping traffic and I am sure causing a few people to reconsider their opinion of him as a fine upstanding member of the community.
I think this is an adorable picture of Aaron. He is so cute!
Voles are pretty cute too, and not very smart. In fact Aaron might not need kudos for catching this one. It is like they want to be caught!
We were outside the other day when it began to rain. We cleaned up the yard, got the laundry in and coerced the children to come in.
Awhile later I noticed how peaceful the children were and immediately thought, "Where is Jacob?"
I came to the conclusion that he was nowhere in the house because someone would be screaming, crying, hitting or calling someone stupid and I would hear that if he was inside.
Sure enough he was playing happily in the sandbox in the pouring rain. There are battles that you need to pick as a parent, but this was not one of them. He was already wet and everyone was peaceful, happy and getting along so there he stayed.
I caught his lips mid bbbrrrrr
Raindrops must taste sweet.
At school Ben had his body traced and then cut into a penguin shape which he them painted. They then measured the penguin and compared the height to the height of real penguins.
Ben likes to cut paper and is even getting good at cleaning up the infinitesimal itty bitty scraps he leaves behind. Here is a rocket he cut out.
I was trying to think how to caption this, but I guess I will let it speak for itself.
I cut open my grapefruit and found this inside. I didn't know it was possible for them to sprout and have green leaves inside the grapefruit with no access to the sun. The root was very hard and woody...in case you were wondering.
We have been raising tadpoles for a science project. I have been feeding them boiled lettuce. The internet said that they love it, and they really seem too. They flock right to it when I put it in.
And I found this little guy in my garden this morning. I didn't take the time to get a good shot because he seemed a little frantic and I wanted to get him back outside so excuse the flash whiteout.
One of the chickens got out of the fence. I can almost hear what the two inside the fence are thinking.
"Oh my look at her. She's got something really special going on there. How did she do that? Do you think we could do that too?"
That may be a few too many thoughts for a chicken though...they do have pretty small brains.
It is rare that I get anything on here about Aaron. So...
Aaron doing one of the things he is best at...looking studious. Well actually, being studious. He is one of the most studious people I know.
Sophie wanted to do Aaron's hair and he was more than will to oblige as it involved having his head scratched by the hair brush. Aaron still pulls off studious here.
Oh and Sophie had a full cup of water to soak the hair brush in. Somehow I knew this would end badly, but I allowed it anyway. Sure enough the whole cup poured down the back of the couch and into the carpet. Someday I will learn to trust my gut.
I can't remember what cool vehicle was passing this time, but whenever any loud sounding vehicle passes, this is where you will find the boys.
Ben has made a couple of paper plate masks at preschool. The pig mask was used for theater day where the students acted out "Little Red Riding Hood," The Three Little Pigs," and Goldilocks and the Three Bears." 
All three were very entertaining. Ben was obviously part of the "Three Little Pigs" play. I did take a video, but none of the students have found their stage voice yet. I may entertain putting it on here anyway, but not today.
The bunny mask was for Easter. I personally watched Ben make it all by himself. He won the award for the mask that looked the most like the Easter Bunny. Having seen all the other masks with whiskers out the eyes and pink noses for the chin and ear going every which way, I think the award was warranted. Some of Aaron's artistic gene coming through I guess.
The mask was starting to fall apart and Ben suggested that we take a picture so that he could throw it away.
