Friday November 11, 2011

 

 

Ian, Jared, and Jesse

Thursday, November 10

 

 

The boys were here overnight because Jere and Kristen were leaving early to attend an Amish wedding in another county.

They were up early and wanted to play with the dominos.

 

 

Ian was into making fancy designs.

 

 

 

 

Then he liked to check if they would all fall down as dominos are supposed to do.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jared was into building things, but not knocking them down.

 

 

 

 

The “building” on the right is a church.

 

 

 

 

This is a gate and pathway to the church.

 

 

After you go through the church there is another path and gate.

I love watching children being creative.

 

 

Jesse didn’t follow Ian or Jesse’s plan, but did a combination of both – sometimes making “buildings” sometimes making a train to knock down.

 

 

 

 

He was quite proud of this structure.

 

 

Then he enjoyed making it crash.

 

 

This was the first time he was successful in making a long train. (His little hands often knocked a domino over – destroying the train – long before he was ready.)

 

 

He loved watching them go down.

 

 

Then they wanted to play farm, so I surprised them with fields and roads after seeing this friends blog entry here. Although hers was much more elaborate than mine.

The beige masking tape didn’t show up as nicely as the blue. Sometime I will have to make a larger farm and road system in the carpeted area of the garage.

This was good enough for them, and they spent a lot of them here.

 

 

About mid afternoon Jesse wanted to make milk shakes – mostly because he likes to run the blender.

 

 

Just before supper Jesse fell asleep while watching his brothers play an Xbox game.

 

 

Ian loves to race cars.

 

 

Much of the western sky was orange tonight at sunset.

By bedtime our house was quiet again, as Jere and Kristen arrived here shortly after 8:00 p.m. It sounds like they had a great day with their friends.