Games, Painting, and Axe Throwing

One morning I woke up to find Noah teaching Charlotte to play his Labyrinth game.

And later they sat together while Noah played on his tablet. Too cute.

We signed Wyatt up for pitch baseball this spring, so we had to make a run to the sporting goods store to get him a bat, glove, and helmet. I really liked this yellow helmet because I would have no trouble spotting him on the field (spoiler alert: it worked).

Eating some grilled cheese on what looks to be a mommy and me Tuesday

One night we met up with Grandpa and Cheryl to throw some axes around. It was a birthday gift from Uncle Kurt who likes to buy us interesting experiences. It was a little tricky, but we got the hang of it and nobody cut off any toes.

My best throw of the night

Grandpa was pretty good at it

Nick misses and Grandpa hits:

https://youtu.be/IgHZd3pX0uY

Even though it wasn't warm enough, Charlotte insisted on wearing her new shirt.

With March came the annual Spaghetti dinner fundraiser for Scouts

Charlotte's room became increasingly messy. Partly due to the fact that she never actually slept there and so had no real reason to have to walk through her room.

We took the kids to a ceramic painting event at the nature center.

We also ran into some Little Sprout friends there

And it finally got warm enough for park time without coats on. We took Wyatt to the Kindergarten Center's playground so he could become familiar with the school.

One monkey

Two monkeys

Three monkeys

That night was game night and Nick picked Monopoly. Wyatt and Nick were a team, Charlotte and I were a team, and Noah played by himself. Noah won.

 Game Night Sample:

https://youtu.be/UchnOZx9S5Y

Things we did in November

Charlotte loves this puzzle she received for her birthday. She can do it all by herself and has put it together more than fifty times since August.

We stopped by our favorite pet store to visit the animals and were surprised to see they now had a really cool tortoise.

We played some Scrabble

We voted at the library for our favorite literary characters.

Noah and Wyatt learned about horticulture for a Wolf den meeting. Wyatt's favorite part was adding his little (fake) centipede.

Charlotte ate chocolate teddy bears in her winter hat

Wyatt free drew the cover of this Dog Man book by sight and did a pretty good job.

 We took silly selfies

 We painted the window trim in the bedroom to match our new white windows

 We went to a football Sunday party and Charlotte brought her puppy along.

Nick and I visited Noah at school and played math games for education week.

Wyatt got some puffin sheets to match his puffin pajamas and became barely visible when lying on his bed.

 The kids went to a Thanksgiving cookie decorating class at the culinary school

They also asked the kids to write/draw what they were thankful for. They posted the drawings to their social media account and I knew right away this was Noah's.

We got ready for our Christmas photo shoot

And Wyatt was devastated I wouldn't buy him this blue dragon at Noah's swim lesson.

It snowed (just a little bit).

And we went to the scout Turkey Shoot. Wyatt entered his shooter in the contest. It was a bumblebee. He was a runner up and won a prize. He was very excited.

Noah's den also led the flag ceremony for the first time.