Monday, February 23, 2009

Our Scientist

As everyone knows, Nathan is very much into dinosaurs. He is really beginning to enjoy science as a whole as well as math. Spelling and writing - not so much.

Nathan got this Electronic Playground for Christmas and decided to get it out last night to see what all it does. He really enjoyed it. He and Brandon are planning their futures and most of it revolves around engineering and palenotology.

A schematic of his experiment.

Saturday, February 21, 2009

Scouting for Food 2009

Nathan's Boy Scout pack was scouting for food this weekend. Brandon helped out for the second year in a row. Next year he will participate as a cub scout and not just as a little brother. The pack collected over 550 cans of food. It was an increase over last year's numbers.


This was about half of what we picked up from the neighborhood.

Tuesday, February 10, 2009

Nathan's First Play

Nathan's 2nd grade put on a production at this month's PTA meeting. They practiced for weeks. The theme was Patriotism and they learned the songs for all branches of the military. Nathan had a speaking part where he shared what the 7th fold in the flag signifies. He was a little nervous, but did very well. He's pictured here with his best friend, Ben, who played a Minuteman and some other boy who jumped in the photo opportunity who was a Secret Service agent.