Smarties

Not the candy, although they are pretty sweet.  :)

Jim introduced Logan to the idea of taking things apart with a screwdriver recently and it totally clicked.  I'm very impressed with his fine motor and mechanical skills.  He decided he really liked taking things apart, and before we knew it he'd removed screws from quite a few things!  We've had to create a project box for him with his tools, and things that he IS allowed to disassemble.  We actually took him to Goodwill in search of a good project and found an ice cream swirl machine.  It doesn't make ice cream, but pushes the ice cream out for swirl cones.  He was very excited to work on it and took out all the screws immediately.  Unfortunately, one of the screws was very irregular and none of us could get it out.  So Jim needs to get a new tool.  Then Logan can finish taking it apart!

The other day I came downstairs to discover this.

These kids are so smart!  Logan had set the chess board up entirely on his own and was instructing Annie on how the pieces move.  I eventually had to sit in to help Annie because she was having a problem accepting the fact that he was taking her pieces.  (Then we started capturing his.)

I hosted playschool again yesterday.  It wasn't the most successful day as far as our activity went, plus I was feeling pretty sick, but these kids are only 3 and 4.  I'm not very concerned.  They had fun, and we had lots of friends to eat lunch with.  If you count, there are seven kids at that table, and one was missing!