Yesterday was a minimum day at school. That means that the kids get off of school at 12:40. By about 2 they were getting bored and asked to go play with the kids across the street. Jasmine has a little girl that she plays with and Benjamin plays with her brother. At first the play was Jasmine and Samantha just kind of running around playing with scooters, while Benjamin and Miguel were playing soccer. This progressed into the girls playing make believe, and the boys trying to score on each other. Finally the girls were in FULL dress up attire tiara, wings, cha-cha shoes, and all. The boys by this point had progressed to smashing snails. The girls than feeling regal decided to "save the snails" from death. The only problem, they would have to touch them, and that did not fit in with princesses. So after picking leaves to pick the snails up with, they decided that the snails now rescued, must be hungry. Twenty minutes of trying to feed the snail by the "princesses" and they had to go get more food for the snails. Well that is were things went wrong, they left the snails to their own devices for like three minutes. In that time the boys had discovered that snails make a great squishing sound when they run them over with a scooter. All anyone heard next, was the high pitched scream of two seven year old girl/princesses as their only subjects were scootered to death. End of play day. Jasmine said she "could not possbile play after the tragedy that just occurred."
The boys the whole time are laughing, playing, and pretty much oblivious to the fact that the girls are there until they start screaming. The laughing gets so much louder and rambunctious when the screaming starts. Apparently my son is not the only one who loves to make his sister scream. Miguel thinks it is funny too. Commence with the boys looking for more snails, or any bugs at this point to squish. The girls give up and come sit next to me and just yell at them from the comfort of the blanket on the grass.
We have finally decorated for Christmas. Rougeh decorated outside the house two weeks ago. But it is mine and the kids project to do is inside. I went to the craft store to see what decorations are there. Ours are all fairly old, so I wanted to add to what we have. I came across these build your own foam kits. We started them at about 1:00 and I told the kids they had to go to bed at 9:00. They went to sleep quick, but got up early this morning to finish them off. I think that they look REALLY cute. I was proud of them. They loved it. Benjamin is not into arts and crafts, but this was building (or so Benjamin informed me), so he loved it. His two are made exactly as the picture showed. Jasmine took more artistic freedoms in hers.
The whole village that we made.
Jasmines' Gingerbread House
Jasmines Gingerbread Bakery.
Benjamins' Candy Cane Village.
Benjamins' Santa House.
This is the Kids after they decorated the house. Benjamin always the center of attention, and Jasmine the constant poser. They are cute kids and did such a great job decorating the tree. They have gotten so big this last year. They are forever making me proud.
