Bitter Sweet

So looking forward to Auntie and Ellie's arrival tomorrow!  However, Scott has been summoned to a business trip in Abu Dhabi?!?!  Hence, the "bitter, sweet" of the week.  He will pick my sister and niece up at the airport tomorrow morning, and then head back in the evening to start the long journey to the Middle East.  We had to look on the map to see just how far he was headed.  Scott thought it wasn't much farther than Italy.  I had a feeling he was way off.  And he was.  I would describe it as just a stones throw from Iran.  Ethan is hoping daddy brings him back a camel for an early birthday present.
     Our day was relatively normal, despite Scott's interesting travel destination announcement.  Today the kids needed a multiplication review so I set up a bunch of problems on the floor and had them race across them.  Only moving forward after they yelled the problem and the correct answer.  Anyone walking by the open windows probably thinks we are nuts...and they would be correct.
     Yesterday during our craft hour (Fiona's favorite part of the day) they took some IKEA boxes (because I {With absolutely no help from Scott.  Unless you count funding} have currently assembled 6 dining room chairs, 2 bar stools, 2 office desks, 2 classroom chairs, an outdoor bench seat with a back, and one bench with no back...just sayin') and turned them into "cars" atop the skateboard.
Their ideas were hilarious, and so very different.  Just like they are.

"The Volcano"

"Trojan Horse"

Pre-race jitters.

Pure multiplication confidence.

High fives when all is said and done.