Let the memory live again

Happy Valentines Day Everyone! Today we started our day off with yummy homemade strawberry shakes (made with soy of coarse since Maddox can't have dairy!) The boys watched a Valentines's DVD that we got from the library. Then we made a tent! A good ol' fashion one made from a sheet. :) It made me think about when I was a kid and Corrina and I would take two chairs and a sheet. Drape it over and play inside. We would always try to think of ways to prevent the tent from falling in. And it would end of frustrating us as it would either fall on us or a side would slip off and we would have a half of a tent. The boys loved it. Maddox didn't get that you couldn't stand on top of it and he broke it several times. But he learned that it was so much fun playing inside and pretending we were bears and it was our cave! ROAR!!!!!

As a family we have been talking a lot about the upcoming election. Graysen has really gotten into a mild watered down US History. It has been fun to talk about history with him. It is a personal favorite of mine! He really likes learning about the presidents and he has decided that he is going to be "President Forever" I haven't had the heart to tell him that is a dictator.

Today we went to vote for our state's primary when we got to the polling place Graysen proudly tells everyone and anyone (repeatedly) who will listen that: George Washington was the first president and he is dead. Each time he said dead he said it in a funnier, deeper, gruffer, more monstrous voice. Which made people stop and stare at us. Some laughed and some gave that gasp look which means they are totally appalled. I don't' know why people have such a hard time hearing children talk about death. I was proud-Washington was the first president and he is dead....Now if I can just get Maddox to say George Bush is a Warlord. ;)