Ivy Dances into Four

Ivy is a whopping 4 year-old now. She loves princesses, pink and purple, dancing, flowers, rainbows, unicorns, ball gowns, sparkly anything, and zebras. But she also loves dirt, sticks, rocks, fighting robots with Calvin, smashing bugs, playing soccer, hiking, climbing trees, and still pulls really great faces.

Calvin Cruises into Seven

Beyblade battle in a makeshift stadium

Science Fair

Calvin is seven now, and enjoys building lego hero factory guys (and then he and Ivy spend hours setting them up and fighting battles), beyblades (Japanese spinning tops), Skylanders (even though we have no Wii), and is excited to start T-ball.

He and Bryn recently participated in the science fair. Bryn did a research project on black holes. Calvin tested the electroconductivity of different substances. At first he had an LED hooked up to a 9-volt battery, but the LED burnt out so he (at Peter's, "Father-of-the-Year"'s, suggestion) used his tongue to measure how hard the wires shocked him. when they were passing through different things like bread, spoons, vinegar, etc. A unique setup, for sure.

A New Hobby for Bryn

Bryn was bored this afternoon, and so came up with a new hobby: broom flying. She's been getting pretty good and frightens all the owls, woodpeckers, and squirrels in the treetops of the forest.

The takeoff

Defying gravity

Flawless landing

The Three-Headed Snake and the Art Show

Calvin's art was selected from his class to be in a district-wide art show. We weren't sure which of his many art pieces had been selected, so it was fun to race around to all the pictures trying to find his. But it wasn't a picture at all- it was a three headed snake sculpture.

Calvin was pleased as punch to see his art on display, but quickly snatched it up and gave it a guided tour of all the other art pieces. Meanwhile, Bryn and I talked about how not being selected doesn't mean your art isn't wonderful (hers is definitely wonderful).