Throw me something!

My friend Lindsay lives off the parade route here in Mandeville and invited us over for tonight's parade (Eve). Her backyard backs up to the route so they build a makeshift bridge to cross the ditch to the street. It was awesome and we had tons of space since the road was closed all around us. Jack and Theo got tons of stuff and we spent the evening with our friends. Can't beat that!

Batmobile

Theo is our resident costumer. He is constantly pulling out the superhero costumes or masks and is rarely without one or the other. Today he insisted on being Batman and wore the mask the entire ride to school. I barely got him to leave it in the car! He's a mess but we'll keep him :)

Fractions!

Jack's class started fractions last week and here is his worksheet from today. I'm afraid I may need a tutor to help me help Jack with his homework in 1st grade next year ;)

Jack made President Puppets in class today and put on a puppet show for his brother. It was pretty hilarious to listen to. Especially when Theo took the reigns!

Here is Jack on his way out the door this morning. Backpack on, lunch bag in hand. Smile, always!

Theo got in a quick round of I Spy while I was still wiping the sleep from my eyes. The things we do before I even sip coffee in this house ;)

Typical Saturday morning

We're married to soccer right now but Jack's game isn't until lunch time. Theo asked to "rot his brain" (what I call watching too much tv) but I suggested playing this game instead. Now both boys are playing :) Yay!

Why Jack will be an engineer

And I won't! I used the box as a reference to build a marble run for Theo to enjoy this week. Imagine my surprise when I saw this morning that Jack had taken it apart and left it in pieces (I was not happy about that!). I told him he had to put it all back together by himself and left him with the box to look at. Well, he did it and his is better than mine was (of course). We did talk about how it would feel if I took apart his work and just left it in pieces like he did for my marble run. Thank you Grandvonnie for this toy. The boys both love it!

Sweet reward

Jack aced another spelling pre-test meaning that we don't have spelling words to study on Thursdays (if you get 100 on the pre-test then you don't have to take the test on Friday). I told him we'd start a new tradition of getting donut holes on the way to school on Fridays if he got a 100 on his pre-test. He thought that was a GREAT idea :) So did Theo.