Sunday Morning Brothers

I have the most adorable boys! No more words needed!

 

 

 

 

 

Science Lesson

We had a really cool impromptu science lesson tonight. It was so fun and the kids thought it was so cool, I had to share it and record it.

We were talking about skin. (Ephraim had scraped his toe and was worried it was going to bleed.) We put Ephraim's hand on top of Gabriel's knee, then Gabriel's hand on top of E's, and then mommy's hand on top of G's. Each was a layer of skin, each one older than the one below it. Then we "scratched" our knee and lost just one layer of skin. It was okay to lose the Mommy layer of skin because we still had two more layers to protect our knee. BUT, if we lost the Gabriel and Ephraim layers of skin too, we exposed our knee and it was "bleeding." We grew a scab (a book) on top of the baby Ephraim layer of skin. If we tried to pick the scab off, the book stuck to the Ephraim layer of skin and ... uh-oh, we saw our bloody knee again. So we decided not to pick our scab and we grew our Ephraim, Gabriel, and Mommy layers of skin again. :)

The boys thought this was brilliant! We did this again and again. Happy science for smart kids!

Scary Faces

It's almost Halloween. I saw someone's idea about drawing on old milk cartons and then putting a glow stick inside. I like the idea and so did the kids. By the way, those pumpkins were from our garden.

 

My statue...

 Post-bath mohawk!

Monday, Monday

I had a rotten day at work today and Ephraim's pet caterpillar needed to be released, so we went outside. Ephraim asked for a sandbox (he has asked the last few times we've gone outside, I think he misses his old daycare which had a sandbox). I had a bag and a half of sand in the shed so I poured it into our wading pool. It wasn't enough to fill it, but enough to play in. Very happy little guy. When Gabriel heard tell of the sandbox, he came running and the two boys were very happy. I got my cutters and hacked away at the blackberries some more while they played. Happy mommy. When I went inside to get the camera, I heard hysterical laughing. Oh, dear. I come outside to see that Ephraim had filled Gabriel's socks with sand and was pouring onto Gabriel's head. Whatever. Good clean fun. 

So they both got a quick bath and had fun spiking their hair. They both wanted to pose funny for me, so I didn't get a chance to make it a nice photoshoot. This shows their true personalities anyway. My darlings!