What I do for my boys..................

I volunteer , volunteer and then I volunteer some more. When I cannot physically be there in the classroom, I usually ask the teacher their theme for the week or month and try to add whatever I can make, buy, borrow or steal (just joking on that last one) to enhance what they have learned.

Well this last month the theme for Patrick's school was "Winter" and to close the theme teacher wanted to buy fleece to make scarves and hats (either out of her pocket or by asking the director for $$), she sounded doubtful of the director agreeing and I knew she really wanted to do this and i remembered some easy scarfs and hats I had seen and of course I told he I would do it.................I HAVE TONS of fleece (well I HAD), I went though my 2 bins and found enough fleece to make 20 hats and scarves (and I still managed to come away with 1 bin full of fleece for future projects)
See:

After much cutting and making of messes:


If you don't believe me take a look I really did make tons of scarves and hats:
Here they are both boys and girls all ready and folded:
What you wanted to see what they looked like (wait a minute while I unfold one of each......you still there?

Here is one of the girls prints:
and one of the boys prints:

and of course I had the BEST model:

I really love to help out in the classroom and it always makes me want to go back to school and maybe get a teaching degree................maybe someday
That's all for now later..............

Boys will be boys.............

Have I mentioned lately my boys have a obsession with LEGOS?

Well they do and it seems that all other action figures, cars etc have taken 2nd place (at least for now)

A few of our latest endeavours (besides putting together the Imperial Cruiser) is taking all of our legos and making NEW stuff in this case a SPY house.
Major attention goes into all the details, both boys thinking up stuff that could be added, including a TV (with remote), a second story, fireplace and of course stairs........

Here's a close up of the TV with the little guy holding his remote (as you can see it's a OLD TV w/rabbit ears, definitely not ready for the digital transition, hahaha)


He's a shot of the whole house (as you can see it's inhabitants are masked to keep their SPY identity a secret)
and of course we need transportation. See , I am not sure who has more fun them or me?

We did it.............................

Ok so schools & camp closed and we have had our fair share of rained in weekends (and thanks to grandpa, we have had Hours and hours and hours ) of entertainment.
I have posted a few pictures before of the construction of the ship (but here is the process all in one spot)


Grandpa gave Robert a very special gift for Xmas, I have posted our progress a few times since Xmas, well guess what ................ with this time we have spent inside (too cold and wet)
I am going to do a little rundown of how this went together (see grandpa....................)Every part came in a bag so the best way to put it together was 1 bag a night (or so, some day more some days none)


Here it is ready to start (this is just the beginning) so many little Lego pieces................


See grandpa (mommy is not the only one putting this together). Robert is pretty good at this he did a whole lot of the work.
Of course Patrick had to help too! He was especially good at finding the tiny tiny tiny (did I say tiny) pieces.
He is so concentrated in this picture. Finding just the right place for that piece.

Another piece put together. They package it so every bag puts together a major part in the ship, so you feel pretty good when you do at least 1 bag and get a big part done.


So proud that he is almost done!



WE FINISHED IT!

Yes all 1000+little tiny Lego pieces put together to form the most WONDERFUL, SPECTACULAR or as the boys say AWESOME !!!!

I present you the Imperial Cruiser.

And the stars :

Yes they are being goofy,like I said this was the end of many days spent in the house due to

rain, or at home due to snow....................we are all a little goofy.


Later

And then it SNOWS.......................

So we haven't had snow for quite a while here and when the weather people say "It might snow" we just sit back and (hope) and wait until there are white flurries falling from the sky........................


and guess what?? that's just what we ended up with 6inches or so of the FLUFFY, COLD& BEAUTIFUL white stuff......................and what do we do when it SNOWS?

Well we go out and play, of course.......................but being that we don't get this often enough we are really not prepared.
The boys schools closed and my office as well (Rob went in for a while, but we didn't wait to go outside)

We didn't want to miss out on the fun, so we get all our "winter" stuff layering as much as possible (thanks abuelito and abuelita, those jackets came in handy)

Here you can see what the boys look like....





Underneath all that they are wearing long sleeves, scarf and under the gloves we had to wear plastic gloves (because the one we own are not waterproof, so I improvised)



Look mommy SNOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We got out and ran around in the snow, threw some snowballs, got covered in snow all before lunchtime.........







By then we were very cold and decided we should go inside, dry our stuff off, eat lunch and wait until daddy got home so we could do it all over again

Like I said we are never "really" prepared for SNOW and all that this entails. We got inside and lay everything out to dry (See.....)



We changed into dry and warm clothes, ate lunch and then just relaxed waiting until daddy got home), for me it meant grabbing a book and lounging by the fire and for the boys it meant a little time on the computer.

I love Agatha Christie.................got this one at a used book store for 50 cents (and did a happy dance when I saw it)


Then all the peace and quiet went away (can you guess why? DADDY'S HOME!!!!), time to suit up again and head out the door.

Here's my SNOWMAN

Yeah he's goofy like that (and I love him for it)....................

Like I mentioned earlier in my post we are never really prepared for snow but we make do and improvise, Rob and the boys wanted to sled (down the little hills across the street, in the empty lots) and well we don't own a sled (does that stop us?)

NO (don't believe me?)see for yourself....................


Up the hill we go..............

Daddy had to test it out!

There goes Robert....................

and Patrick too...........
and do you believe I went down too? No....................hey I am a mommy of boys I have to.............



That's about all .......................I leave you with my snow angel.



The temperature is supposed to rise the rest of the week and although schools and camp closed 2 days we are ready to go back...................Goodbye snow ! It was FUN!

What happens.............

When it rains and rains and rains............. Well we get to stay inside and GO CRAZY!


We play on the computer (until our eyeballs fall out),

we go bowling (inside the house)

, we pretend we are football players

and of course we build and build our Lego ship (Thanks Grandpa!)
See........

Just run amuck in general (because WE CAN'T GO OUTSIDE !!!) until we colapse and fall asleep.

Here is a sample (sorry for the quality, I am still trying to figure out how to load from my new video camera)

I did manage to do some cleaning (I absolutly love my shark vacum Thanks Mom and Dad) as you can see I did it while I sipped my coffee............

How's thats for a weekend spent inside?

Well that's all I just wanted to share a day in the life of the boys while we try to avoid cabin fever)

Later