Art Time

Sometimes it's okay to color on the wall.

Yesterday

Yesterday Esther was challenged to a game of chess by a little boy. They were pretty much neck-and-neck until he had to leave.

After he left Esther made his pieces fall into the trap she had set up. She emerged victorious.

Here are some other things we did on our trip to the Children's Museum:

Boys!

This is where Alex took off his shoes after playing outside. Yes, there are beans in there. Somehow he got dry beans in his shoes.

This is what the bathwater looked like after his bath.

And this is what the tub looked like after draining.

I was planning to mop the house and clean the bathroom this morning. I'm glad I procrastinated until this afternoon.

The Winner

Cameron's been fencing. Did you know that?

He's the guy on the left.

This is him in the finals for his club's novice tournament (Cameron's first tournament).

Here he is with his FIRST PLACE medal! Not too shabby!

Recess

This is what homeschoolers do while all the other kids are trapped inside.

February Fun

Reason # 2,371 why Cameron is an awesome dad:

The End

And that brings us to the end of my photo-a-day January. Now why did I do that in the first place? It's obvious that I am NOT a photographer. But I've been thinking back to the beginnings of this blog. I started it when I was living far away from family in a place that they probably couldn't really picture. I wanted to have a way to show family our regular lives. After a while I stopped blogging about the ordinary stuff, and only included the big events. This blog basically turned into a travel-log.

But really, those "big" events aren't what make our lives. It's all the little things that add up. I figured by posting a photo every day I might get myself back into the habit of recording all those insignificant things that end up being the most significant of all.

It was a lot of fun. I'm glad I did it. But don't expect a new post tomorrow :)