Hooray!

Today, Boookie got the 'all clear' from the podiatrist after his surgery, and for the first time ever, he and the Mayor went up the street to play some basketball during lunch, breaking in the basketball Boookie got for Christmas.

The Mayor has been looking forward to having a basketball buddy since about 1991, so it's a pretty good day all around!

Eejee School

Eejee was doing pattern blocks for school today. Here's a Tectunic Shark warrior guy with a spear and a sword and a shield.

Eejee promoted the warrior guy to skirmisher guy, which meant he got now one but TWO plumes.

A Viking Kind of Week

Last Thursday we went to see the Nordic Museum, which was pretty awesome.

This poem was the Mayor's favorite part

This lace dress was the Hobbit Wife's favorite part

This Viking shield was Boookie's favorite part

With real battle damage!

The longboats were Ela's favorite part

Seimi and Eejee both agreed that this model of the Swedish ship "Vasa" was their favorite part

Seimi and Eejee made a LEGO model of the Vasa and Seimi wrote out his summary of a Swedish-Danish naval battle that happened a few decades after the Vasa sank.

Inspired by all the ships, Seimi had this LEGO Viking ship constructed within 45 minutes of coming home from the museum trip.

Several of our hobbitling-Vikings recently sustained battle injuries. Eejee had a brief 2AM trip to the ER to help with some breathing. Eejee is all mended up and is back to adventuring.

Boookie underwent surgery on both feet this week, but he is also mending well.

The Mayor made Eejee and Seimi custom cardboard-duct tape Viking helmets today, which they eagerly put to use.

Hobbitlings Go Viking!

Let Us Avoid Lettuce

Eejee has an intense dislike of lettuce. Whenever it is part of a meal, he has taken to intentionally falling asleep at the table in order to avoid being made to eat lettuce.

This is both unacceptable and funny (notice all the grins in the window reflection). We're working on this!