If last month was all about dominoes and swim lessons, this month was all about baking and playing Monopoly. Tommy baked something nearly every day (and sometimes two or three times a day!) His 9 and 7 year old cousins are also baking a lot, and have started to give each other baking lessons. So far there have been two lessons. One day the boys went over to their cousins' house to learn how to make fudge, and another day the girls came to our house to learn how to make pretzels.
We went to the San Francisco Zoo for our foster baby's 1st birthday.
One of the many games of Monopoly played this month.
We all venture to downtown San Jose once a week for our foster baby's visits with her bio-mom. We usually have lunch at Panera and then find a nearby park to play at. This time we found a giant Monopoly board at the park right next to The Children's Discovery Museum. The kids had a lot of fun pretending to be the pieces and moving around the board.
Tommy got interested in RC cars this month and decided he wanted to get one. Our family rule is that if kids want toys, they have to earn the money to pay for them. He washed both our cars, vacuumed a few rooms, folded his baby sisters' laundry, did ironing, cleaned bathrooms, and lots of other chores around the house to earn the $30 to buy this car.
Ben also earned a bit of money to buy this RC car. By some slick business dealing, he bought this car from Tommy for only $5.
Reading time with little sister
Evening family walk.
Other things we did that aren't pictured:
- Listened to Story of the World and some other audio books during our car trips
- Played lots of board and card games together
- Legos
- The boys found a renewed interest in drawing, and stayed up late many nights drawing pictures of King Kong and other creatures
- Playdates with friends
- Piano lessons
- Taekwondo lessons
- Read-alouds: Pinocchio, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, The Child's Story Bible
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