Super Structures

We had a great Family Home Evening last night. In order to try to help there be a happier spirit in our home (and less whining), I gave a lesson about gratitude, using mostly President Monson's talk from the October Conference on Gratitude. We ended the lesson by introducing a contest to see how many "thank you's" or "I'm grateful for's" each person could get each day for the following week. The boys were excited about this, and were very polite and thankful throughout our activity! Hopefully this continues the whole week!

Benjamin prepared a fun activity that he had done in his G/T class at school last week: we made structures out of toothpicks and marshmallows. This was a welcome change from the activity the boys usually choose of playing the wii! Everyone had a lot of fun creating their structures.



This activity was such a success, that when Nathan and Benjamin got home from school, they chose to keep building instead of going out to play with friends. Nathan re-engineered his a little to make it stronger and bigger.



Elizabeth had been asleep for the activity last night, and was in heaven this afternoon when some of the structures got left on the table. I had already given her some out of the bag, but she was happy to keep eating . . . the toothpicks didn't slow her down too much! And now she has added "marshmallow" to her vocabulary :)