A taste of our Sunday.

Lego Land

Sam's babysitter from many years ago, Kate, gave Sam an amazing cache of Legos! She'd already given him a big box a year ago. This time, two huge boxes, including a tackle box with pieces neatly divided by type (including  bin for little heads)!

Sam's been in heaven making a panoramic scene, shown in this movie. Fair warning: it's about 4 minutes long.

the best medicine

Josh is very pleased!

Sam starting work on an archeology science kit shaped like a pyramid

First you transliterate the heiroglyphs to find where the secret entrance is... inside await treasures to be excavated

Josh is crawling like mad these days

Tonight was a family video night. NOVA about a remote part of Madagascar. Cool!

Indefatigable at least til bedtme

Josh taking a bath

Josh taking a bath, and Josh getting a kick out of taking a kleenex out of a box.

Aunt Amy!

 Visit from Aunt Amy this weekend. For entertainment on Saturday we all went to the art museum, for the last weekend of Extreme Materials 2. These are works out art made from unusual media, such as soap, packing tape, hat pins, pencils (see Kraken, below), bunt pans, breakfast cereal, band aids, and a number of bodily fluids and personal medical items from the edgier artists.

They were very artistic and interesting, and some were quite beautiful.

Amy and Sam are shown in front of a sculpture of sorts consisting of plastic spoons glued to the wall.

Sam loved the new art and kept excitedly running from artwork to artwork eagerly looking to see what they were made of, then running back to us to tell us.

We also viewed part of the regular collection. Shown are daddy and Josh next to "Analogy of Night".

It's a nice statue, but anyone who's had insomnia will tell you it's not a good analogy for night. Notice the star on her forehead and the moon in her right hand. And the smug look. Are those really enough to justify that title? You be the judge.

The museum has a large central hall upstairs the size of a gymnasium. I went through there with Josh on my shoulders.He immediately started whooping and waiting, testing out the acoustics. He was in heaven.

Yesterday we went to Mendon Ponds for Winterfest 2012. We ended up not seeing the main atractions--snowshoe, ski and sled-dog races, horse-drawn carriage rides, and some indoor activities.Instead, we just sledded for 1.5 hours. Sam often threw his head back and screamed, "THIS IS AWESOME!"

It was pretty good, too. :-)

Sam's wish

What with our 1-2" of snow this morning the commute was at a snail's pace. It took 40 minutes longer than usual for him to make it to school. That gave us lots of time to chat:

Sam: You know how when you blow on a dandelion you make a wish?  My wish would be that everyone believes in God.
Tim: That's a great wish!
Sam: What would yours be?
Tim: The same thing, I think.

A little later:

Tim: Why do you want everyone to believe in God?
Sam: Because it's better.  Because God is not like those other gods and goddesses who are fakes.

We really don't sit around night after night at the dinner table bashing Zeus and Isis. Sam just remembers everything we say (that doesn't involve a chore for him to do).