Warming Up for Spring Break

 Today is the first day of Spring, and it actually feels like Spring. Spring Break is this coming week, and we're looking forward to some lovely outside downtime. The above pictures is from a science lesson about simple machines.

 Silly sisters.

 Eva and her friend Marie had fun being fairies on Saturday.

 Ava, Marie, and Eva make their way back home after their fairy picnic in the park.

 Ben has made two batches of cinnamon rolls this weekend. They're delicious, and now we're completely out of yeast. I better get some fast before the baking bug wears off.

 The fairy picnic

The boys found a nasty smelling tennis ball, a yellow dog toy, and lots of old pop bottles at the pond. Treasure.

CSAP and the Living Room Outlaw

This week the kids have been taking the dreaded CSAP test, which turns out to have not been worth all that dread. "It was easy," was the most common response I got when I picked them up each day. The silver lining of having to take the dreaded CSAP test is that there is air hockey and foosball at the DeVry University Student Commons (where they had to take their tests).

On Saturday we went to the ARC thrift store right when it opened for the very best deals. I found these cool little bread pans. Aren't they cute? The girls found fabric for their fashion designs. Spencer found a book on how to build computers. Ben didn't find anything, but he got to eat the cute banana bread.

Rocco's week has been a bit of a downer. His big mistake was peeing on Ben's laptop bag. Now he's not allowed in the living room any more. Here you see him peering over a dining room chair designed to keep him out of the living room. Tonight Ben installed a baby gate to keep him out of the main floor. Rocco's a little bit sad, but Ben is a lot happy.