Evening Activities

The baby has jumped on board the "standing desk" trend. She's busily drawing pictures of our family. They're very cute, and most of them have an accompanying song.

Meanwhile, the little dude has been assembling lego kits with instructions for Eric and me to put together. They come in bags with instructions and all the needed pieces!

The instructions can be a bit confusing-- I'm not sure he's ready to publish these. (I love the written out "Put all this together" as the overarching instruction.)

Imitation

Some neighbors of ours had a tree taken down today, and the little dude and I got home in time to see it! He came inside and chopped down his treehouse, carting it away in pieces on lego trucks.

It was kind of cool and also kind of heartbreaking!

New Nose

The baby wanted me to read her The Napping House 5,000 times in a row tonight. It's a really cute book, so I was happy to comply.

The little dude built himself a new nose out of legos! It even has a mustache!!

¡Qué guapo!

Mayhem!

This is the scene in front of our dishwasher right now:

Mayhem! Fire! Tripping hazard! (Also, wow-- scrubbing my cabinet fronts has been added to my weekend to-do list.)

Good Daddy

I joined a running group this spring, which means that Eric is basically on his own with the kids on Tuesday nights. I think they're in good hands:

Yikes!

I think I'm glad the little guy will be walking to school next year-- look at what he made with Legos after breakfast today! It's a wreck on the interstate. A plane hit a car and the police and a tow truck are on the scene.

There are even traffic cones!

Kind of cool, kind of scary.

Show-Off

The little guy built this pretty amazing airplane and followed the Lego instructions by himself! Eric posed him in front of the baby and me, and look at her! (Also, look at the cool plane!)

Cooperation

The kids play nicely together on occasion-- it's always nice to capture it for posterity. Here they are assembling legos together.

Chillaxin'

The little guy has been hard at work on the Lego sets he got for his birthday. He's seriously up at 6am working on them before breakfast, and he insists that he can't go to bed because he has more work to do! Meanwhile, the baby just wants to watch Daniel Tiger. How can she possibly be comfortable like this?

See the little guy working diligently in the background?

Why bother?

Sometimes I don't know why we even have a big tv instead of just using my small phone.

Tonight at dinner the kids just watched The Lego Movie song on my phone over and over and over and over and over and over (and over and over).

Documentarian

The little guy photographs everything. It's kind of fun to see what he thinks is worth documenting. Here's his latest lego creation. We have seven pictures that are different versions of this:

It really makes me glad that we have a digital camera (as opposed to film) so he can take as many pictures as he wants.

Legos, Legos, Everywhere

Now that the guest bed is covered with Legos, the kids have started playing with the Duplo Legos in the living room. This:

is what they do. These kids just crack me up.

Playing on the Edge

I cleaned up and rearranged the stuff-that-used-to-be-in-the-garage portion of our guest room. Hopefully it doesn't look like an episode of Hoarders in there (in the pictures, at least). Any time you want to find the little guy, just look back there. He'll be playing with Legos and sitting with his tush on the edge of the mattress.

See the blue and yellow thing? It's a flower! It has white roots, a green stem, and blue and yellow petals. Cool, huh!

Hanging Out

We started playing with legos on the guest bed (it's a big flat space that's up off the floor), and now we are spending a lot of time hanging out in the guest bedroom as a family. It's kind of weird, but sort of nice, too. I mean, it's a nice room so it seems as though we should use it, right?

He was playing, but stopped to watch Let It Go on my phone.

She's happy! (Clap along...)

Beau was plumb tuckered after a nice long walk-- it's a gorgeous evening, so we had to take advantage of it and spend some time outside.

What a sad old hound.

Happy Birthday!

The little guy picked out a tie for Eric's birthday (and then told him about it), and Eric finally got to open it today!

The little guy also built Eric a giant Lego creation.

Happy 35, honey!

Supermodel

Remember the Jill Sobule song Supermodel? (One of my all-time favorites!) Anyway, I think the little guy has a career ahead of him in Lego-modeling, if that becomes a thing. He specifically asked me to take this series of photos to show all four sides of his latest creation. He'd pose and say "Now!" to let me know when to snap the photo.

Parallel Play

The little dude is only allowed to play with legos (the ones for bigger kids, not the duplos) on the dining room table because the baby puts everything in her mouth. He spent some time playing with them after dinner tonight, and the baby spent the entire time circling the table on her scooter like a scene from Jaws.

 If Jaws had been this cute, though, you would go in the water again! (hahaha)

It's a Map!

The little guy built a map out of legos tonight. See?

It's my work (the tall building) and Eric's work (the shorted building). My office is one of the yellow blocks, and lucky Eric has a clear block office. What fun!

Photo Bomb!

Nana and Pops got the little guy a complicated lego garbage truck for Christmas. It took a day and a half, but he put it together by himself! The baby totally photo bombed his "I DID IT!!!" picture. Hilarious.

Lego-Man

Nana and Pops got the little guy oodles of legos for Christmas. We started putting a garbage truck together the other night. It's tough! He's doing a really nice job building it, especially since it took about 45 minutes to just put together the chassis. Yikes!