1. I woke up the boys by blasting "In the Hall of the Mountain King" from the Peer Gynt Suite. That's a pretty sure-fire way of getting anyone up and moving. Try it.
2. When it rains here in Texas (which it did yesterday morning, at least for a little while), these tiny little snails in conical shells emerge from where ever it is that they hide themselves. Yesterday while I was at speech with Mosey, Joseph and Brigham went out and collected about 25 of them and put them in a glass cup. I came home, and started clearing things up getting ready for dinner. When I picked up the cup to put it in the sink, it was a nice little surprise to look down and find it crawling with these slimy little creatures. Ewww. I never did stuff like that when I was a kid. :-)
3. I bought a bag of mixed in-shell nuts at Walmart the other night. I made the mistake of putting them out on the table during math. Math and nut-cracking are not compatible activities. The boys don't even like nuts very much, but cracking nuts is another story. The hand-held nutcracker is pretty hard-- it takes some dexterity and muscle. So the boys found a better way-- wedging the nut between the door and the door jam (on the hinged side), and then closing the door. It cracks the nut with a very satisfying crunch, sending fragments of shell scattering in all directions. Irresistible. And very messy.
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