Recent Pictures

Rylan's class made Valentines bracelets at school on Tuesday.  His teachers made a huge deal out of the fact that Rylan did a pattern of red-white-red-white.  Apparently he was the only one that did that and they thought that was great for his age.  I think his teachers have very low expectations - they are okay but they aren't teaching the kids much (maybe Rylan will get one of Carter's former teachers next year who I've loved).

Last week was P-week for Carter so he brought his smashed pennies for show-and-tell.  We get one the first time we go to a new place that has a machine (except for Disney World - we get three from each park each time we go).  These are a great, super-inexpensive souvenir!

I took Rylan to the Adventure Science Center on Wednesday while Carter was in school.  They have a new temporary exhibit called Tinkering Garage.  In this space they have tons of real tools (hammers, saws, clamps, some power tools, and more), lots of pieces of scrap wood, and things to decorate (like duct tape, pipe cleaners, googly eyes, etc).  Rylan and I built a box with a stick bird house.

This is the drawing Carter was working on when I picked him up from school on Wednesday.

Front:

Back:

It is apparently a self portrait.  To me the front looks like the clown from the Jack in the Box restaurant commercials and the hands and arms with the happy faces disturb me a little :)

Rylan finally got 10 stickers in his "sleep alone until your clock turns green" chart.

So on Wednesday afternoon we stopped by Chuck E. Cheese's where each boy got 12 tokens to play games.

On Thursday, Carter's class had pajama day (for P-week).  He wore his pajamas that glow in the dark!  Also, he wanted to show off what he got from the treasure chest at school - Pop Rocks.  He thought they were regular candy and once I explained them to him, he did not want them.  He tried one itty-bitty crystal and that was it.

Also on Thursday the Frontier Truck from Belle Meade Plantation visited the school.  I don't really details but the kids were supposed to be exposed to daily life on the frontier.  They each got to take home this little bag filled with what looks like potpourri.

The kids told me that they were supposed to place the bag in their sheets or under their mattress or under their bed (the story kept changing) to keep bugs away.

We have some balloons still around the house left over from a playdate with Rylan's class a couple of weeks ago.  Carter was hitting the balloon up, trying to keep it from hitting the ground, when it got stuck to the ceiling.  There is way too much static electricity in this house!!!

On Saturday night we went out for sushi.  This was the first time we took the boys with us (we usually reserve sushi for when my mom is visiting and can watch the boys for us).  Most of what we order is raw so we ordered the boys a very tame crab and cream cheese roll to try.  They were both good sports and tried a little.

Carter ate some rice and what he thought was ham (but was the crab).

Rylan ate some rice and the cream cheese.

After one piece, they were both ready for the snacks we brought along for them.  They were very entertained by the rotating sushi bar though (we never eat from there though because the place is never very crowded and we don't know how long it's been on the belt).