Organizing Legos

The kids decided to sort all of their Legos by color. After about 30 minutes, I brought out the egg cartons for them to use to help sort. They kept going and going. We have a ton of Legos (figuratively).

They spent hours and hours working on this. Then with less than 100 Legos left, they quit. I finished the last group for them. Then we had to find a new storage solution. Wonderful Husband put dividers into cardboard boxes so they could stay divided into the 14 different sections (the people/animals were in a plastic container). I know what you are thinking, how long could they possibly leave them sorted? We are talking about a couple of 5 year olds after all.

I keep this blog a year behind real life for privacy reasons. As of a full year later, they are still sorted. They are still played with daily and we now have even more Legos. It's crazy that they can leave the floor so covered in toys that you can't walk through, but the Legos, those get sorted.

Eye Dilation

Someone (Sweet Daughter) decided she wants glasses. At their 5 year well child visit they held this strange machine up to each child's eyes. It beeps and gives a reading. Sweet Daughter failed on both eyes. Then they took her for a traditional eye test and she failed. We ended up with a referral to a pediatric eye specialist.

After the initial exam, which she passed, they had to dilate her eyes. While we were waiting for her eyes to dilate, she was asking what she could do to make sure she gets glasses. Luckily, she was not a fan of the dilation and I was trying to show her what they were doing. I took a close up photo of both kids eyes - one dilated and one not.

Her dilated eyes and a sad face.
Good news! She doesn't need glasses. Well, she wasn't pleased, but I was.

His regular eyes - yes he has long, well defined lashes. 

We have no idea where those came from genetically.

New Exhibit in Science Museum

Our local Science museum opened a new exhibit, the Science of Football! You know we were excited to attend this member preview event.

Practicing his aim

Testing her running speed

I built a camel! (not football related)

During the live show both of our kids were selected to help out.

A Tale of Two Beds - Part 24

Once again, here are the links to the previous tales. Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Frustration, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8, Part 9, Part 10, Part 11, Part 12, Part 13, Part 14, Part 15, Part 16, Part 17, Part 18, Part 19, Part 20, Part 21, Part22, Part 23.

Well that's one way to do it. I mean, you wouldn't expect her head to be on the bed would you?

He organized all of the blankets and animals before falling asleep. How sweet.

You know when you turn a corner and suddenly feel everyone looking at you?