Well, I did it. I let go of "those" thoughts. The ones that say boys can't play with doll houses. I went up in the dusty, dusty attic and pulled out my old doll house. It's not anything special, but I couldn't bare the thought of giving it away, and I had a hankering to play with it! The family seemed pretty irate to have been languishing in boxes for 25 years (yikes!). I wonder how they'll feel after a few weeks with the Ks. They might be begging to return. I mean, I never thought to have a tornado sweep through the house or to run a train through it when I was running their lives-- but the boys did, in a matter of nanoseconds. I can only imagine the terrors that await them now.

Keona's Pride

Keona hasn't been in to building trains or playing with them, only destroying the tracks when its time to put them away. However this day he suddenly decided he wanted to build a track clear to his bedroom, and he did, all by himself. And he was quite proud!

New Designs; more towers....

The boys are working hard at building and their designs are way different than even a couple weeks ago.

Kalani continues to use nontraditional materials. Anything can be a tower; today I came in the kitchen to find him stacking teacups! I was happy to give him sippies and juice bottles instead.

The Early Bird Gets the....

giant blocks, the trains, the hockey game, the bubbles, the fire engines.... when you arrive early at the Virginia Children's Museum as we did last Tuesday. The boys had a blast as we literally had the place to ourselves for a good 45 minutes. Kalani doesn't know the word, but I'm pretty sure he reached his own Nirvana. We started in the model train room and spent quite a bit of time watching them make their rounds. then we went to the Thomas room. Two tables set up and two huge boxes of extra track and many many trains. Even brothers could play happily together here!

Towers

When we came in all the giant blocks were built into a building, so the first thing the boys got to do was KNOCK IT DOWN. Then we spent quite a bit of time building towers.

What is really exciting is that at the end of the summer, the old worn museum will shut down for about a year for a complete renovation. We look forward to the new place, which will double in size.