"Japanese Music"

Tonight playing around with the piano Robin noticed that the black keys made music that sounded "more like Japanese music, you know, from anime . . ." I thought that was pretty cool, as much Asian music is more minor or atonal than Western music!

Lego Ships

Robin has finally got the hang of making "Lego Ships" with Wolfy. He's not as interested in symmetry as Wolfy is, but likes his ships to have lots of guns and engines.

He works really hard to get Wolfy to play with him - and has a wonderful time being silly with Day.

Goals & 2 Wheels!

Robin is now riding a bike with two wheels, no training wheels! He's very proud of himself. We had noticed that he was balancing better with the training wheels so we suggested trying without - and he's off!

I asked both boys what they wanted to learn this year. Robin's list:

1. The alphabet (he actually went & got his flashcards and went through them once.)
2. To skateboard!
3. To play a real song on the piano.

Aikido!

Robin is now officially taking Aikido with his big brother. He is so proud and excited every Tuesday!

Robin's story

Once upon a time, there was a little kid. Then he went Geocaching. Before he got there, a monster came up. Then the monster chased the boy all the way to the Geocache. The boy picked the Geocache up and ran away because he had no time to pick what to take out of the box. Then he got arrested, because you're not supposed to take the whole box away, are you?!?!

Experiments

A recent set of science "experiments":

Art

Wolfy & I did some drawing while Matt took Robin down to the river (still gloriously frozen.) Day took a nap. When Robin got back, he wanted to draw, too. The big pale blue circle is God (see Wolfy's blog . . . Wolfy made God really big, so Robin made God bigger.) There's a grappling hook (upper right quadrant). And the blue zigzags are our river, the black zigzags are "Dooby's river" (i.e., the Potomac a few miles upstream in Accokeek.)