The Creative Genius of Invention Camp

Each year our kids get to pick one and only one week long summer camp to attend. They are learning to pick wisely. Quinn's choice was made very easy this year by the little flier that came home bearing the title "Invention Camp". To make it more exciting (at least to us) the camp was sponsored by the US Patent and Trademark Office.  He has spent the last 5 days tearing apart small appliances, duct taping recyclables into robots, making flying pigs out of paper cups, and making roller coasters out of pipe insulation. Today was the open house and he was so proud to take the family on a tour of all the exciting inventions.  We exited the building with 1 mock patent for the newly invented battle droid seen above and 1 happy little boy.

Toothless- Finally!

About 10 min. after we laid Quinn down tonight, we heard little feet running like mad down the stairs. THIS is what all the ruckus was about... "MY TOOTH CAME OUT!!" He was so excited. Quinn is the only child in his 1st grade class who had not lost a tooth by the end of the school year and so when he turned up with a "wiggler" 2 weeks ago, he was pretty excited. He quickly ran to get Nolan up so he could show off the gaping hole which he can proudly squeeze his tongue out through. Nolan's response was typical. "Quinn, when you die before me because you are older and go up to heaven, I will always have this tooth to remember you by. You are the best big brother in the whole world. I am so proud of you."