Buds

Tornado and Sunrise get to spend quite a bit of time together these days, now that Sunshine and Cloudburst are at school every day.  They have fun building things with Trio blocks, coloring (preferably on paper) and following me around.

They both love to help with laundry, of all things.  Ohhh, I am definitely encouraging this.  Sunrise will take things out of the washer and put them in the dryer, while checking the light to make sure it's still there in that fun hidden corner.  Tornado can now switch loads over and get a new one started.  He has learned this from waking up with wet sheets, unfortunately.

Sunrise is moving into the "little brother" role nicely, now that he's started knocking over Tornado's towers, swiping his beautifully colored papers, and asking "where Dallin?" when he can't find him.  It's fun to watch these two little friends.

New banks

We've been doing allowance for almost 2 years now, and the kids can also earn money for doing extra jobs around the house (pulling bags of weeds, washing and folding loads of laundry, cleaning kitchen chairs, etc.) They can get a "match" for money they put in savings, and then they also put 10% in tithing and 10% in a mission fund. For a while I have been using small tupperware containers for the kids to hold their savings, tithing and mission funds. After they came raining down from the cabinet again the other day, I finally upgraded... to fishing tackle boxes!

The banks lay nice and flat now, and they organize everything very nicely. The kids love to get them down and carefully count everything in them.

Happy Valentine's Day!