A Week Off with Visitors

We've been busy the last (ahem) 2 weeks... okay, really, it's been a week and a half :)

TW spent almost 2 hours a few Sunday's ago playing on our bed (it took two days off in the being made category) with my old calculator.  He kept asking me where the games were and would not give up in looking for them!

Of course we celebrated Valentine's Day... early morning ring pops... Yum!

TW devised a new toy for Smaug... it kept them entertained for quite some time :)

The kids have been spending the 15 minutes before "each" meal at the table.  Sometimes they just sit, sometimes I give them a little something to do.  In this project they had a bunch of colored shapes which they were to glue to the corresponding shape on the paper.  Mr. E did GREAT!  The girls did what I expected and just got glue everywhere :)

Last Thursday, the kids and I went up to Gramp's and Grammy's (Daddy had a "flight) to meet with them and my parents who have been on a whirlwind vacation!  This is a 4 generation shot... Grammy, my dad, myself and the kiddos!

Grandpa really likes his little granddaughters!

One day we explored a nearby trail... TW went bush (uh, saw palmetto) whacking with Grandpa!

There was water at the end of the path!

Of course, we had to take everyone to the air museum!

And the beach... Berry is showing us a cartwheel... this is right after church, which is why we are still dressed up :)

And, on Grandpa and Nana's last day, we headed to Fort Barrancas... the kids are picking up their snack, which had dropped on the ground.

We also inspected this smoke stack on base!

TW has been dying to spend some money... we expected him to pick out some legos but he picked this (quite ugly, in my opinion) dragon, which he immediately named Smaug (after the dragon from The Hobbit, not after his little brother, who was also named after The Hobbit's dragon)... he then built a castle in the backyard and has played almost non-stop with the monster since then!

Before I forget, TW finished (as much as we will do) his model of the Swiss Family Robinson's first barrel boat!

And then, we had a Swiss Family Robinson meal with roasted chicken, roasted potatoes and carrots, and corn cakes.  Dessert was mango in coconut milk, which TW said, we should eat every day ;)

In Other News:  Nothing else is really happening.  We started school up again on Tuesday after a 9 day break and the girls have enjoyed plucking the little cello (poor thing)!