Thursday:

Horse riding lesson for Kodiak. I didn’t have my act together very well. We set aside her riding helmet but forgot to actually bring it. Luckily Jessie had a spare helmet that fit her. I also forgot to bring my mud boots, so my shoes got a little muddy. Jupiter was miserable there. He didn’t want to watch the lesson and he didn’t want to wait in the car with me. We agreed that next time we would bring a good assortment of toys for him to play with. Kodiak did great, from what I could see. She’s learned how to tie harness knots, groom the horse, and help with getting the saddle and blankets on and off. She said she trotted for a really long time. It was around 30 degrees outside, but Kodiak did pretty well except her hands got too cold.

Afterward we went to the library, then shopping for toys. I also got a set of roll-around plastic bins for Jupi to store his Legos and Bionicles in. That’s going to be a good solution because he can wheel it around between his room and the living room. Hopefully it will reduce the mess from all that stuff.

Friday:

The kids decided to dress identically today. They are pretending to be identical twins born one second apart from each other.

We went to Safari Sam’s where they ran around the play structure and played mini-golf for over three hours. Afterward we got Cantonese food and came home. We’re listening to a book on tape called “Witch Cat”.

Saturday:

Caught up on house work today. The kids cleaned up their rooms too. They get 25 cents each time they clean their room. We went to Coastal Farm and Ranch supply store today. They had kid’s gloves that would work for riding gloves for Kodiak but they didn’t quite fit. We did get her some new snow boots there though. Now we’re all geared up for winter sports. I may try taking them sledding next week. We also got Kodiak some Carhartt pants for horse riding.

Kodiak worked on her kiddie laptop for a while. Jupiter made new creations out of his Bionicles. He made a set of twins that could do circus acrobatics together. He also made a bipedal creature leashed to it’s quadrapedal pet. For a while this morning the kids took digital pictures of the creations so we can post some on lego.com. While Jupi was making his twins, we talked about where twins come from. Twins are a recurring theme this week. I told Jupi how identical and fraternal twins occur. He then extrapolated to figure out how you could get triplets with two of them identical and one fraternal.

- Minke