Skill Builders

I am always looking for ways to get the twins to learn new skills and I was thinking they would love trying to build a tower and seeing how high they could make it before it tumbled.... but we don't have any blocks, so I was thinking, and thinking....

and an idea popped up.

 Let's try stacking cups.

It takes a fair amount of thinking especially since I mixed the cup sizes.

They have to be sorted, spaced just right, and

balanced.

 It takes awhile so it's good for the
"taking turns" skill building, too.

What else could we use?

The twins were so excited to show the girls what they could do
and of course,
Brianna had to take it to a new level...
18 rolls high.

The Eiffel Tower

Too much fun!
Lunch was called...
Buster had a melt down.
It's just so hard to transition from one good activity to another.
Oh, JoY!
He's out riding his bike to get over his emotional upheaval over the toilet paper rolls.
Ahem... "paper toilets" he calls them.

The kiddos have both graduated to 30 piece puzzles.
This one was given to them yesterday by Jared and Joyanna and the kids have only done it 15 times already. Maybe we ought to think about a 100 piece puzzle.

Buster decided to make a thank you card for the puzzle...
He says, "This is the body of Jared."
Won't Jared be enamored with his personal portrait!!!
I love the hair.