Henry wanted to share this picture on the family blog:

"It is a barn and a house. With a sheep in the barn, eating hay. And there's a spider web on the roof of the house. And there's super heroes in the house. And they are Human Torch and Reptil. There's clouds in the sky."

New House

Henry wanted to put this picture on the family blog (and not on his personal blog). He said more people would see it if it was on our family blog.

"The car is on fire, and a plane is flying. There is a slide in our yard."

Who are your top-5 superheroes?

We made our top-5 superheroes lists this morning. Who is on your top-5 list?

Making Capt. America's Shield

Henry

1. Human Torch
2. Silver Surfer
3. Black [Symbiote] Spiderman
4. Ironman
5. Iceman

Capt. America & Havoc

Arthur

1. Batman
2. Cyclops
3. Captain America
4. Marvel Girl
5. Ironman

Tony Stark complete with mustache

Erin

1. Batman
2. Wonder Woman
3. Hulk
4. Ironman (because of Robert Downey Jr.)
5. Mystique

Spidey's in trouble with the law, again.

Ryan

1. Wolverine
2. Spiderman
3. Jean Grey/Phoenix
4. Nightcrawler
5. Storm

Post a comment with your top-5 list.

Then and Now

Family Picnic, Summer, 1983

Christmas, 2010

Meet the Pirates

Took a picture of Henry & Arthur when they were playing pirates. They pushed the beds together in the guest bedroom to make a pirate ship and sailed off across the high seas. Arthur was the Captain, and Henry was the First Mate. Arthur was in charge of the maps and navigating the boat. Henry was in charge of loading and unloading cargo. My job was to come up with new names for islands to visit.

PIRATE UPDATE: Christmas wishes granted.

10.10.10

This is our video submission to the One Day on Earth project.

Costumes

What's the plan?

Henry: What are we going to do today?

Ryan: I don't know. What do you want to do?

Henry: I want to go to the big, big park that is the one after the small park?

Ryan: You mean the bumpy slide park?

Henry: Yeah.

Ryan: The one where we use the bridge over the highway to get there?

Henry: Yeah.

Ryan: Are you sure you don't want to go to the park where there will be more kids?

Henry: Where?

Ryan: Selby Park will have more kids than bumpy slide park.

Henry: How many?

Ryan: Selby Park will have 10 to 20 kids. Bumpy slide park will only have 1 or 2 kids.

Henry: Selby Park. Will the monkey boy who climbs on the roof be there?

Ryan: Maybe.

Arthur: Selby Park, yeah!

Ryan: How should we go there?

Henry: We should eat breakfast, brush teeth, get dressed, put on crocs and helmets, and get out our bikes.

Ryan: Okay, then what?

Henry: We should go to Selby park, play, come home, eat lunch, take naps, play outside, eat snack, pick up the living room, little bit of video games, and eat dinner with Mommy.

Ryan: Okay, then what?

Henry: Take a bath, brush teeth, read stories, go to bed, get up, breakfast, brush teeth, park...

Ryan: Okay, okay. Let's just eat today's breakfast, then we'll see.

Bike Swap

Henry decided that he too was ready for a new bike. He pulled out the 16" bike I had in the garage for him and said he was ready to ride it. Henry took off on the 16", and we had a nice 2-mile ride to Selby Park this morning.

When we got back, Henry thought it was time for Arthur to learn to pedal. We put the training wheels back on the 12" bike and set up Arthur to spin a bit.

New Bike