Ever "making"

Today's agenda, SURF SCHOOL!

Both Andrew and Sarah got up on their boards and Andrew even tried to jump and turn mid ride . . . He's so adventurous!

On the way to surf school  Sarah was *singing* her multiplications . . . 12's, 3's, 7's . . she knows them all!  I can not recommend Multiplication by Heart enough!

Then, Andrew is starting to leave me notes . . . "Luv mom" !  He talked about writing it "Luf mom" so we talked about the difference in the sound of "v" and "f" . . . I'm happy he's writing.

But more than that . . he *makes* things all the time.  Sewing, building, painting, fixing, sculpting and drawings . .  . Just now he quit his game on PBS.com to go and draw his dad.  He pulled down the "How to Draw Everything" book and opened it up and is figuring out how to draw his dad.

Boy, is there anything he won't -CREATE- with?

Budding film producers!

Andrew and Sarah have been working on this film.  Andrew wanted me to "edit out the fingers and hands" but since I don't have that kind of equipment - please forgive the fingers and hands.  Andrew is acting camera man and sound effects, Sarah manipulates the playmobil figurines. 

The story and set up is all their own - I just handed them my camera and let them go at it!  Hehe -

Today they are working with finger paints.

 And for quite a while now, Andrew has been wanting to make boats.  He even layed out the design and the color swatches are the colors he wants the boat to be.

He wants me to help him make a REAL boat *couph*, but I explained we don't have an axe.

Anyway, we'd thought we could build a smaller scale boat with a plastic soda bottle and finger paint.

Whew! What a Wii will do.

Yesterday the kids were with Grandma, and painted.

Sarah's house

Sarah's, she says "It's just . . . art."

the outside of a card Sarah made me

the inside of the card

Sarah's self portrait

An army for Andrew's boat (details later)

Andrew's and he wrote "mom" upper right hand corner.

Andrew's,this is actually sideways - for some reason the compu won't let me correct it.  It's a sun.

 When my husband and I returned we placed a globe we found at a thrift store and that attracted so much interest. The first question posed was - can you find where we live?  And then talking about "from here to there" . . .

Today we went swimming at a nearby pool for 4 hours and we *were* going to go to the beach, so before we left we watched Bill Nye the science guy about Ocean Currents.

One of the things we did while at the pool (site change because I really don't like the sand at the beach and papa wanted to stay home, pool is easier for me) is the kids circled around the kiddy pool creating their own current.  Way fun.  They were so excited about it.

And now, wearily dragging myself in - (why does a day at the pool wear me out more than the kids?)  We hook up the Wii borrowed from my brother, and play a few rounds of wii sports.  

Well, amend that, the boys were too tired and weepy so they laid down and are sleeping.  Sarah and I played some bowling and tennis, but I really want to blog before dinner - so right now, Just Sarah is whacking at the tennis = she is playing 2 players with just herself, wii remotes in each hand. Interesting.