The Zoe and Silas Show

No different from many homes far and wide, bedtime can be pretty rough around here. Everyone is tired and needs some quiet time to themselves, but getting both kids up to the 2nd floor after dinner is cleaned up is a nightly feat. Zoe needs more sleep than Silas does and she settles down pretty readily. Her kindle books turn off a little after 9 and she goes right to sleep. Silas is another story, however. I head up to bed a little before 10:00 and pretty much every night I see the light still on in his bedroom. The other night I found him crouched on the floor reading National Geographic. He was reading a story about Mars, and was inspired to draw a picture of his own house on Mars. I think the best part of the design is the meeting tube that connects the science lab and play room :) It's hard to get mad when he's reading so much and flexing his imagination, but PLEASE GO TO SLEEP!!!!

Well it's been a busy 3 years since I last posted! Stay tuned as we may have more posts coming now that it looks like I have a new contributor... Silas recently read a book called "Starting Your Own Blog", and now he is bound and determined for us to let him start his own blog! We convinced him that he should start out by drafting content and a posting calendar. We made templates this morning and he wrote his first "post" today!

9/19/14: Searching for volcanos. #quirkykidsrule

9/18/14: Playing "sunflowers" before school. Zoe, complete with pinwheel, was the sunflower, and Silas was watering her. Their imaginations inspire me.

9/17/14: Play "explorers" before school.

9/4/14: Just another summer day at the park, this time baking a birthday cake!

8/26/14: Zoe's morning creation.

8/25/14: As I was leaving for work this morning the kids were getting ready to go "camping" in their bedroom closet. In preparation for starting K1 on 9/8, Derek took them over to the new school to ride bikes and play on the playground! Very excited (and love this picture of them!).

8/6/14: Master Chef Silas was hard at work today while Derek made lunch!

5/2/14: The weather is finally getting warmer in Boston so we enjoyed some long overdue time in the backyard yesterday! Silas was cracking me up at bedtime, ordering "Chicken 'Morocca' Soup" for take out. I don't even know where he gets the concept from, it has been months and months since we last ordered out!

4/27/14: We headed down to Plymouth for a handbag party on Sunday afternoon. S&Z had a blast playing with the other 4-year-olds at the party... Silas in particular was enamored with the "princesses".

3/18/14: Zoe & Silas have been waking up at 6:30am recently, even though the "sun" in their room doesn't come up until 7:00. They have been keeping themselves busy until wake-up time by setting up shop in their bedroom closet. This morning I found them "doing work" with some animals, their flashlight pals, a notebook, pencil, and toy cell phone. In other news, Zoe is working on some great writing these days!

3/13/14: When I left for work on Thursday morning S&Z were heading off into another world thanks to 4-year-old imagination x2!

3/10/14: It was the first weeknight of daylight saving's time and boy did it make a difference. After months of trekking home in the dark I fully enjoyed the walk home in DAYLIGHT! S&Z were playing "dinosaur" when I got home :)

3/8/14: We had a lazy morning at home on Saturday, which included lots of imaginative play on S&Z's part! In the afternoon we divided and conquered: Zoe and I went to Stop & Shop and Derek and Silas went to BJ's. Derek was off on Saturday night so we had a glorious date night checking out a new-to-us Mexican restaurant in East Boston. It felt like we traveled to a different city. I think that our future date nights (which happen every 6 weeks or so) should definitely include some aspect of checking out new neighborhoods or restaurants!

2/21/14: Silas has been obsessed with our old flip phones and anything related to electronics lately. When the kids woke up this morning they "played games" on their phones before breakfast. The lab had a going away party for Vanessa, who is moving to Chicago, over the noon hour today. I'm lucky to have amazing co-workers. Here is a picture of Juliana playing "lions" with the kids after lunch. 

2/19/14: Pretending to open a bottle of wine. #proudparentingmoment #sarcasm

1/14/14: Both kids have been working on writing their letters for awhile now. When I got home from work tonight Zoe & Ta-ta had been writing numbers . Zoe was very excited to show me the numbers she had written in her notebook- The kids made a " rocket ship " out of an Amazon box a few days ago. Tonight they were blasting off into outer space before bath time. There is something so magical about the imaginations of 4-year-olds!

1/9/14: It was Zoe & Silas' first day of swimming lessons at the Y, but Derek forgot his phone at home. There will be lots of make-up pictures to come next week. Bottom line: they both loved it!!! We got an Amazon order a few days ago and they have building a "rocket ship" out of the box ever since. Gotta love the imagination of 4-year-olds!