I heart my kids!

I'm trying to do better at updating my blog but I live a pretty dull life. My biggest interest is my kids and well, lets be honest, you probably couldn't care less about my kids. But since it's my blog and their Grandmas care, I'm going to write about them away :P
They got a kick out using their tools on a real log (we don't have a fireplace, I brought it in so it could dry out for a scout campout).


We took the kids to the rainforest (at the zoo) on Saturday, another reward for Calin's smiley faces at school. He got 5 smileys this past week and Darin and I have noticed a huge change in his behavior. We've been working very diligently at being patient with him, trying harder to understand his motives, and have been positive parenting out the wazoo. It's a slow process but apparently our efforts are paying off.


Today, amongst the squabbling, I caught Calin teaching Naiya a few things (school was cancelled due to windchill):

I overheard him teaching her about the Plan of Salvation using this diagram on our fridge. I only caught the tail end though, when he got to the kingdoms, "I want to go here, not here or here."


"Your imagination is in your head" he explained as he tried to help her see a dinosaur in the pattern on the ceiling.


"This is the temple. These are the windows. This is the tree...." he pointed out on this picture of the Logan Temple