It’s been an eventful last few weeks with the kids. I haven’t had the pictures downloaded, so I’ve been putting off writing about what’s been going on, but now that Spring Break is here I can catch up a bit.
Thomas has had several school activities, including his school musical and a major history project. For the musical he was one of the vegetables. He chose to be a turnip, so Robin made him a purple turnip costume. He had a speaking part (one line) but sang all the songs as well. The performance was very cute — I wish I had video to upload but our video camera’s battery was dead. I took quite a few stills and got most of his classmates. Here’s a pretty good one of Thomas delivering his line:
He had some difficulty with the hat, but other than that he had a great time and did very well!
For his history project, he chose Ben Franklin. He didn’t know a whole lot about him before he started, but by the time they were done with the project he’d researched quite a bit. We helped him do a timeline and a name poem, and Thomas chose a representative sample of his inventions to feature on his trifold poster. And of course, he had to dress up like Benjamin Franklin. Unfortunately, this project came right on the heels of the musical, so Robin had to make two costumes in quick succession. Luckily, Benjamin Franklin isn’t that tough of a costume. Here’s what it looked like:
One of the nice side effects of doing this project was that he got more interested in inventions and electricity. He’d gotten an electronics kit from my folks last year, and had played with it a little, but after doing this project he got it out and started making all sorts of circuits and playing with all the components, and generally having a great time with it!
Lastly, Katherine and Jonathan have had their share of playtime as well. He’s a very sweet baby and very tolerant. Katherine sometimes shows interest in interacting with him and sometimes doesn’t. But recently, she wanted to feed him a bottle. So we… well, a picture is probably worth a thousand words here:
As you can tell, Jonathan thought this was hilarious, although he may have been confused as to what the bottle was actually supposed to be, since he doesn’t take real ones. This cute scene didn’t last long, as I’m informed, but it’s typical of how she wants to play with Jonathan. That’s not all that’s been going on with everyone, but it’s a good sample of the pictures we’ve gotten. I have some good video of Thomas playing basketball, also, that I’ll try to upload soon.