We have been busy lately, with a little bit of this and a little bit of that. I found some 100 piece puzzles at Marc's recently, and we have been having fun doing them while listening to Irish folktales. The Sunchild especially enjoys the tale of Finn MacCoul, and how his clever wife Oona helped him to trick the giant Cuculain, and so, avoided a fight. I try very hard to do as little of the puzzles as possible, and watch his thought processes as he searches for the next piece. This is the perfect size for him, and I mostly help with the edge, and then sit back and watch him go to work.

We have been doing quite a bit of baking lately too. He enjoys measuring out the ingredients, and mixing them up. The best part, though, is when you get to play with the dough! We have recently made pesto pizza bread, rice pudding, virginia spoonbread, and homemade biscuits to go with sausage and gravy.

We made an assortment of different paper airplanes yesterday. It was a nice day out, so we took one to the playground to see how it flew in the wind & wide open spaces. Sometimes, we were able to make it do loop-de-loops.

Yesterday evening, and continuing into today, the Sunchild has been especially keen to work the Play-Dough. He is currently working on making 'candy'. It is very interesting to watch how he can be thoroughly bored with something, and then, after it has been hidden away long enough, he is once again able to look at it with fresh eyes.