The Sunchild is fascinated with one of his new Christmas gifts: Snap Circuits Jr., by Elenco. This was a present from his Grandpa, and boy, was it a hit. We have worked through quite a few of the experiments so far, and learned about differents kinds of circuits: open vs closed, series vs parellel, and things like resistors. I think I am learning a lot from this toy too!

Life is getting somewhat back to normal, whatever that means. There are new things to play with, stories to read, and thank you's to write. In fact, the Sunchild came up with a grand plan today, as the tedium set in around thank you #3, "Why don't I just write this once, and then copy it & mail it to everybody?". Considering today's letter took almost 45 minutes to complete, I thought we could work with this idea. I promised him that if he made it nice & legible, we could use it as a card for everyone, and he could address & decorate each one individually. He thought this idea was great, and proceeded to make a very nice letter. I kept the orginal for his homeschool notebook.

Today, we are photographing his Lego creations so that we can post pictures online at his blog, Sunspot. He hasn't posted much there yet, but I sense an upswelling in enthusiasm. He also wants to send his photos in to Lego club, and that is very exciting.

Now it is time to get to work on Sunspot.