The boys (including Dave) have a snow day today. Luke and Maggie have been playing together really nicely all morning. Luke even helped Maggie pick out her clothes. I feel like I should let him do that every day.

On Sunday, the boys and Dave had their first Lego League Expo.

The boys wore their shirts I made for our trip to Legoland. Dave didn’t because he was lame one of the coaches and didn’t want it to seem like he and only certain kids on the team got cool shirts (even though it’s true).

We were there for over four hours. Annie took advantage of the complimentary ear piercing (just kidding, it’s a sticker).

Here’s a close up of the model the team built. Each of the teams (there were 40 of them) were instructed to create a motorized design that had something to do with water.

The kids came up with the idea of having a swimming pool that was fed from a melting iceberg.

Maggie handled it all like a champ – thanks to several walks, vending machine pretzels, and the fun photo filters on my phone.

Each kid on the team got a medal and each team got a trophy too.

The team worked really hard on all of this. They started back at the end of September and met for an hour a week on Wednesday nights. There were other activities and lessons they did during the meetings too.

It was a fun experience for all of us.

Same boy, different baby.

All cute.

Google has a new app that allows you to find your own fine art doppelganger. Of course I had to test it with all six of us.

A couple of weeks ago, when Luke was picking out something to take for show and tell, he jokingly asked if he could bring Annie. I told him no and he picked out a toy helicopter instead. The next time I saw his teacher though, I asked her if Annie could make a guest appearance.

Luke was really surprised when he saw us outside his classroom.  He did tell me we forgot to pack something for show and tell. He was thrilled when I told him that was why I’d brought Annie.

Luke got to share first with the class. He told them, “This is my baby. I don’t know how my mom got her or why she did. I think she just maybe wanted four kids.” He told them her name (and spelled it for them), age, and birthday. He also told his classmates that she can crawl and she doesn’t have any teeth.

As you can imagine, Annie was a big hit. I felt bad for the little girl that brought her, admittedly very realistic looking, baby doll to show.

Maggie, with her milkmaid braids, was also very popular with the first graders. She’s even more excited about starting kindergarten now.

Maggie looked particularly adorable for gymnastics this morning.

Last night at bedtime, Luke stood in front of his closet and said, “I just wish I had a shirt with exactly 100 things on it to wear to school tomorrow.” How could I resist such a pathetic plea?

So an hour and a half later I had a shirt for Luke. When he saw it this morning he told me, “I sort of felt kinda like excited.”

He’s actually wearing the shirt again tomorrow. Luke’s class wasn’t able to finish all of their 100th Day activities today. His teacher told him it would be really great if he could wear it again tomorrow, but if not, that’s okay. So the shirt will be getting a repeat performance (this time with a green shirt underneath).

I will not be taking Dave’s suggestion and making it say 101 or adding another tally mark.

Tuesday is the 100th day of school and Luke had to come up with a project with 100 things. So he made a green birthday cake with exactly 100 candles.

Over the summer, I had picked up some candle stickers on clearance and they worked out perfectly.

I think it turned out great. Luke is pretty proud of it too.

Maggie insisted on making a cake as well.

She’s pretty proud of her cake too.

My mom made Luke this orange hat when he was a baby.

The middle picture is from December of 2014, when Luke was three years old. The picture on the right is six-year-old Luke this morning. He’s gotten a lot of use out of that orange hat.