reading

Jane stayed home from school today because she has a cold. Luckily I picked up some books at the library last night. Both kids are obsessed with the Secrets of Droon and Magic Tree House books. Jane reads them herself and I read them to Malcolm.

I also thought it was cute they wanted to match outfits today!

children's museum

We met Nana and Grandpa at the New Hampshire Children's Museum last weekend. It was a very fun outing on a cold winter day! Grandpa took some of these photos. They spent a long time playing in the yellow submarine, and Jane wore the right shirt for it.

This part was fun; the kids cranked these foam shapes way up high and then let them fly.

Next stop was the post office.

This room had legos for building vehicles and a ramp to test them out.

Malcolm wanted to be a paleontologist!

Next the kids painted along to some music.

We walked to a burrito place for lunch. The kids sat with Nana and Grandpa!

Malcolm ate a lot of chips.

After lunch we looked at all the artwork on the walls along the ramp to get upstairs in the museum.

They got to be on TV!

first lost tooth and morning K

Jane lost her first tooth! Her adult tooth has already grown in. Her first tooth fairy gift was a lego set.

You can see her missing tooth here.

This was also the first day of morning kindergarten. So far Jane really likes it, and so do I. Now we have more time to do fun things in the afternoon.

It snowed that afternoon, so after lunch the kids played outside. (Too bad the snow is already melted again!)

"robot museum"

The MIT museum still has robots on display, and the kids have been into robots lately. We decided to head over there on Sunday.

There was an activity set up. People could write or draw about what they'd like robots to do for them. Jane sort of copied someone else's drawing, but she came up with the idea of a robot who could carry her.

Afterwards we ate at the Middle East restaurant and the kids loved the pita bread!

We visited the same museum two years ago, don't the kids look so much older?

preschool visit

Malcolm is going to attend preschool next year, so we've been visiting a few. Jane didn't go and is doing fine in kindergarten, but I think Malcolm will be too lonely when Jane is at school all day in the fall. He really liked the school we visited today, especially the playground!

bus stop

This morning we went to a playdate, so Jane got on a different bus with her friend Trevor. It also happened to be pajama day in kindergarten. Malcolm insisted on wearing pjs all day too! In this picture, Trevor had lost his boot!

last sports class

Since Jane is switching to morning kindergarten, Malcolm has to end his afternoon sports class. (I didn't think she would enjoy sitting in the waiting room with me each week.) He really enjoyed it and learned the basics of a lot of different sports. It was great that he was fine going in by himself and he loved the teachers!

Malcolm and Ben were approaching each other on the balance beam.

They didn't know what to do in the middle!