So is what we did last Saturday. The Saturday job charts FINALLY got dusted off and used again, and we got some work done. The kids preferred the other kind of Saturday.
Will helped Isaac vacuum (Will loves to vacuum) and Nathan and Avery "helped" dad try to find and fix the squeaky parts on his truck by bouncing on it. Brady was done with his jobs long before I even thought of taking any pictures, and instead was filling up a mixing bowl in the backyard with his special mixture of dirt and sand for our newest pets that arrived in the mail that morning.
Ants. For an incredibly awesome ant farm that was gifted to us by one very cool Uncle Garrett. My kids think Uncle Garrett is about the most awesome person ever. And, in fact, he just may be. He can snowboard directly to his front door. He takes them for rides in his jeep with the top down. He can eat a live caterpillar. He dares my kids to do things like submerge their head in freezing cold Santaquin canyon river water for $1.00. And he gives kids things that they LOVE that mom and dad would probably NEVER get for them, like candy, and fireworks and ant farms and someday probably a drum set or something like that. That is one cool uncle.
The ants now quite happily reside in our computer room, where only a few of them have escaped, thanks to William. He was watching them crawl through one of the tubes earlier this week and decided that he needed to see them first hand. So he pulled off the tube and let them crawl all over his hand, at which point I hear Nathan screaming "oh my gosh, oh my gosh, Yummy has fire ants! Ahhhhhh!" We only had to smash two of them, and the rest are still happy and safe in their castle.
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