Back to Reality

Well, today is our first day back home from Vancouver. Back to the regular everyday life.

We made a trip to the mall to meet a tenant to pick up some very, very late rent. While we were there we picked up some science kits. Elijah chose a mammoth skeleton to build. He had it built in no time at all.

Toviel chose a build-your-own transforming solar powered robot. The skill level was ages 10 and up. I had to help him with some of the snapping together of parts as well as punching out some pieces. His fingers simply tired after a while.

The robot is almost finished:

Now, the test. And it works perfectly! Here is the robot walking, powered by the sunlight:

Here it is transformed into the scorpion, walking around:

It has one more mode; a tank mode, which we didn't get around to building today.

Both the boys did a math lesson today, jumped on the trampoline, played some games (mainly Pirate's Cove), built with Lego, and played together.

At bedtime, Toviel climbed I to bed with his Magformers and built several things. His last creation was "The Solar Beam"...

Elijah climbed into bed with his book about whales and dolphins and a notebook. After a while he came running out telling me how fascinating Bowhead Whales were, along with all sorts of interesting facts. He started making notes in a notebook:

I asked him if he would teach me some of the things he was learning. "Oh, totally!" He exclaimed. So tomorrow, I get to learn about Bowhead Whales!

Sometimes, the most learning occurs when they are wearing only their underwear, at 12:30am, when kids "should" be sleeping.