Without Computers

On the morning following our locking up of the computers EZ asked if he could play on his. I explained again how we talked about our week without computers. His response was, "Oh No! What are we going to do?!"
What did we do with all of our time off of the computer. Well, me, I read. Oh it was so wonderful. I read four books (okay one spilled over into this week, but I couldn't sleep last night until I finished it). The boys played outside a TON! They love their bikes. And I love that they like to be outside so much. I was also REALLY grateful for the good weather.
One thing that REALLY surprised me was the fact that not one of them tried to turn on a computer. WOW! We put away all of the laptops, but the other ones I just unplugged. It would have been really easy for one of them to just plug it in and turn on the switch. But no one even tried. We had made a pact and we all kept it. YEA.
Here is a pic of Spike practicing. We really worked on form last week. Here is my Sage spelunking in the cupboards again. If there is a will there is a way. He cleaned out the whole cupboard before he crawled in and closed the door. I put a few back in, but he was just as happy.

Cups, cups, cups, cups, cups.

We cleaned out a couple of spaces and in one of them I found all of these little paper cups. I thought maybe the boys would like to drink out of them for fun. NOPE! Building is so much more fun. They are still playing with the cups days later.

You can't really see it in this pic, but EZ had a way of stacking them that he could make them collapse really easily into one another and took his "buildings" down really fast. A couple of the other boys tried to mimic it, but EZ is really the master of it.

One morning Puppy got up extra early just to see how many buildings he could make in the kitchen. EZ also liked to play the cups game. You know the one. Usually played with 3 cups and you hide a little toy under one, mix them all up and then find the toy. Well, that was WAY too easy for EZ. He decided he needed a lot more cups for the game. I never won.

They also had fun making them into "Telescopes" and "Glasses" too funny! We are trying to teach Sage emotions. We have emotion band-aids and put a ton of them on him. He ended up taking most of them off right away, but he couldn't get this angry one off of his arm, so we took a pic. Spike made a robot one day at school. He calls him Roger and talks about his personality and what he likes and doesn't. He doesn't like Sage or Puppy getting near to him. (LOL like THAT is going to stop them.) I am sorry I didn't take pics of the boys outside. It was a fun week and I think we all felt pretty good about it when it was done.