Update on TV free week

At dinner tonight, our youngest, (and most precocious, I might add) said"can we keep doing TV free week? I like it this way." Whaaat?
I realized his brother and sisters have been playing with him more and I have sat down and played games and legos with him more. Rarely do they all play at something for a great length of time. I should have thought of a pile of dirt a long time ago. After school today the four of them, and the neighbor Haley, were all out in the dirt pile making tunnels. They have quite the elaborate set up out there. They say there next step is to bring the train set out. Not quite sure that will happen. Joe has been carrying 5 wheelbarrow loads a day to the front and hasn't made much of a dent in it yet though. Much to his shagrin and to the kids delight.
Long live dirt.
I wish I could get my pictures on here to show you.
dumb computer, dumberer user

qotd

This is from a friend of mine who has just moved across the world to China this week.
On the car ride from Shanghai to their new home in Suzhou their 8 year old daughter Becca said " Its like Chinatown, only bigger."
How sweet.
We wish the Wilcox's all the best!

Raccoon

Update on our raccoon situation. We have caught 3. Last night they got the cat food can stuck under the trip switch as to eat the cat food and not get caught. Since they thought they were so cool, they decided to sneak back into the garage were they had not been for a while. There they had a healthy snack of a box of breakfast bars and a box of capri sun. A very well balanced meal I might add. I found breakfast bar wrappers all over the yard. Have I mentioned lately how much I dislike raccoons? Hate is very strong word you know.