A Week of Pictures

This week we had some fun at the Tolman home.

This first pictures if actually from last week. But I wanted to include it. I have been teaching a mother/daughter sewing class at our house on the 2nd and the 4th Tuesday of every month. We have been having a lot of fun and Tatiana loves it!

Ben loves playing with his mosaic puzzle game. He is so creative. Nick helped him figure out his name. Ben started it, but couldn't get it to fit so Nick fixed it. Such nice kids, such smart kids!

Speaking of Nick being smart and creative! He created this knight jousting thing that really works. He didn't have a kit or instruction, he came up with it all on his own! He also applied to be on the Robotics Team at school. We will see if he gets in, not many 6th graders do. But he would be great at it! He loves science and robotics.

Here is a video of his Knights in action!

We had some excitement at our house this weekend too. I needed to get our smoke detectors checked because we had an "incident" and the smoke detectors didn't go off when they should have. No worries it was just a cooking incident, no person or property was damaged, there wasn't even any flames, just smoke. Anyways, I called the fire department to ask them to come and check my smoke detectors. (did you know they did that for free?!) They quickly called back and said they would be here in 20 minutes. I was expecting someone to come in one of their pick-up trucks I see them driving around sometimes. But noooo, they pulled up in a big awesome hook and ladder truck! Andrew and Ben were on cloud nine! It would have not been anymore exciting if Santa himself pulled up in front of the house with his sleigh! After they checked out our detectors they invited the boys outside to look at the truck. YEAH!!!! Ben even got to sit inside. He is wearing his own toy helmet, he just had to show it off (along with every other fire man thing he has...rolling eyes) He had a blast!

While we were out there Nick spotted a snake under the fire engine. One of the fire man crawled under there to get it so the boys could get a closer look, which I thought was very nice. So they had firemen at their house (even in their bedroom!), climbed into a fire truck, AND saw a snake...it was the BEST DAY EVER!!!!

And that is our week in a nutshell.