After we had Christmas morning, we cleaned up and had Christmas again with Greg's mom and Uncle Bill in the afternoon. Bob came over, too, and we ate a giant turkey dinner, with all the fixings, and opened even more gifts.
I actually passed out at 5pm from exhaustion. The kids wanted to open every single present immediately and begin playing with them, but they got a ton of science experiments, requiring adult supervision. After Gregory got into his chemistry set and burned a hole in his hand, I actually posted a schedule for yesterday to keep them in line.
9am-10am: Chemistry set with Gregory
10am-11am: Sewing kit with Amanda
11am-12pm: Anatomy kit with Sarah
12pm-1pm: Robot Construction with Austin
1pm-3pm: Marble Run Construction
3pm- WINE
I don't actually do assembly or construction. That's why I married GREG, so it's a giant stretch for me to do these things, but I did manage to do 14 chemistry experiments with Gregory and we learned the difference between alkali and acidic compounds. I hid the chemistry experiment after that.
By the time I got to Austin's robot and read this in the directions, I was like WTF????
Who designs these toys, SATAN? Considering Santa is an anagram for Satan, I'm thinking it's possible.
I did manage to map out the house with Austin and we got the robot programmed to walk out of the den, go to Greg's recliner, and say, "My name is Otto. You. must. die."
Sarah learned the inner workings of the human body while I tried to assemble a skull.
This caused me to send out S.O.S. pleas on Facebook.
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You're on your own kid!!!
If anyone's looking for me today, I'll be dissecting bugs to put underneath a microscope, constructing a solar panel, a weather station, doing a charcoal filter construction for a clean water experiment and working on the marble run, which might be completed by April.
Santa just doesn't learn, does he? ;)
ReplyDeleteThey keep you pretty busy.
ReplyDeleteThe girls got a marble run also. Had to call my dad for help putting it together :) On that note - they have been playing with it for about 7 hours between yesterday and this morning. Well worth the construction.
ReplyDeleteAh, so that's what the walker was for! I didn't get it when I saw it on FB, but then again I was passing out from exhaustion myself. That's actually a great idea!
ReplyDeleteAndi- I you could give your dad my address, that would be swell. Does he prefer Grandfather, Grandpa, or Grampy? We're flexible.
ReplyDeleteThe walker!!!! LOLOL!!!!
ReplyDeleteYou and your kids are awesome! I like that they aren't getting video games and other electronic crap constantly like some children I know. See, I would find yours fun to buy for, and if ever I have them (that's a big if), I would be the same way with showing them new stuff and giving them things that require... *gasp* imagination! On the other hand... my niece and nephew... I never know what to get them since I think the games they pick out are way more than what they need for their ages.
ReplyDeleteThe marble things looks fun. My son got this weird and wacky contraption lab. He has designed ton of designs and proudly shows me how the marble goes. It's pretty fun.
ReplyDeleteOh, lord, lord, lord! And I used to think the Fisher Price farm had too many parts!
ReplyDeleteI was betting the walker was something Jerry scavenged from a foreclosure. Somewhere, an old lady is falling on her face. And somewhere, Jerry is watching that Christmas mess of wrapping paper and toys and rubbing his hands with glee. You know he's loving it.
The walker cracks me up!!!!!!!! I absolutely love it.
ReplyDeleteThat was so nice of you to let your daughter use your walker to practice skating. :-)
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