Another one of Logan’s baby teeth finally came out today which would be his third.  This lateral incisor had been wiggling for several weeks now, and it was finally hanging by the thread.  He has been tempted to put his finger in his month to play with it.  Today as we arrived home, Logan went to the bathroom to wash his hands and came out to tell us that the tooth just came off.  No bleeding and no pain.  Hopefully the tooth fairy will arrive tonight.

    It has been awhile since we hung out with the Gopals and the Merons, so today was the day.  We leisurely hung out in the house and the boys got their dose of video games before we headed out to the Gopal’s.  As soon as we arrived, the boys went off to play with Rohan, Bar and Raz.  The adults sat down, caught up and enjoyed some Indian snacks and lunch.  The kids chased each other with toy weapons inside the house, and later out to the yard.  But before long, they asked to play with video games.  We could delay game time only until the boys got some food in them.  The rest of the time Logan and Rohan were buried in the games while Connor, Bar and Raz would play other things on and off.  We saw Bar and Connor playing hide and seek in the backyard on their own for a couple of rounds.  A few hours later, we decided that it was time to go home, and both boys fell asleep quickly during the drive home.

     We were so lazy this year that we barely made it on time to have the boys prepare their Valentine’s cards for their classmates on Friday.  Logan got his done on Thursday and Connor wrote his on Friday morning  Fortunately they write fast these days.  After school, both were happy to show us all the cool cards/gifts they collected from their classmates.

    We don’t usually do much for Valentine’s Days, so I did not prepare anything for the boys.  I actually was surprised to receive three beautifully handmade cards from my men on the morning of Valentine’s.  So I felt that I should do something, thus I made some little heart shaped brownies for our dessert that night.

   This is a cute card Connor made at school for us.

    Connor loves playing with one of our new board games, King of Tokyo”.  He often asks to play it after dinner, but his mood can quickly change afterword.  If he does not win or if the game ends sooner than he liked, he whines or even cries.  He would look genuinely sad.  We tried to let him know that his whining would discourage us from wanting to play it again, and as a result, we would ban the game for a few days.  Connor has begged once “Mommy, please, give me another chance!”.  How cute that was!  So we played, however he cried again but he tried to hold back and hold out his hand to shake with me.

    As it was rainy this weekend, we spent more time in the house and we played some older games, Uno, Chutes and Ladders, Sequence as well the King of Tokyo.  Connor did his best controlling his feelings and did great.  Even Logan was helping him, one night after King of Tokyo, Logan whispered to Connor “Don’t cry, ok?”.  Connor is now shaking hands and saying “Good Game” with a smile after the games.  He is proud of himself too!

     This weekend was completely opened for us as both the basketball game and the piano class were cancelled.  We started Saturday with tennis first.  The boys remembered the drill we did last week and enjoyed doing that again for part of the morning.  Later the boys moved on to soccer.  In the afternoon, we also took a walk to Logan’s school playground to play.  Logan taught us all how to play one of the games he learned at school “4 squares”.  He seemed proud to share and be the one who knows the rules.  Today we did not plan on watching the Super Bowl, so Stuart decided to take advantage of everyone else watching the game and utilize the nearby school’s nice courts with Logan for another round of tennis.  I was told they had fun with that again.

    Later in the day while the boys were playing video games, Stuart found a live feed of the Super Bowl on our Roku/TV.  It was quite enjoyable for us to watch in peace and quiet for awhile.  At dinner, we kept the TV on and this was a first time that the boys really sat and watched a football game.  We tried to explain the basic of the game to them and they seemed somewhat into it.  They cheered for the “white team” and was happy that they won.  It was a good end to a relaxing weekend for us.

    Over a week ago Logan took out his old deck of Yu Gi Oh cards to play again, and the excitement of that spread to Connor too.  Logan shared a few cards with Connor; the two of them held on to their decks dearly, and had fun dueling with each other.  Later Logan decided that he wanted a duel disk to wear on his wrist.  For the next couple of days, he kept asking for us to buy one for him.  He let him down gently that we would not able to find one, but he was not convinced.  When we were at Target one day, he wanted to ask a staff there but was too shy, so he convinced Connor to try.  They managed to ask the Cashier at the end of the trip but of course no luck.  Logan continued to ask for it, so we suggested that he could make one himself but should wait until the weekend to do that.  Obviously he could not wait that long.  One morning he came in to our room with his eyes half opened and asked us to help him make the cardboard duel disk.  He was so happy with it once Stuart helped him get the rough draft done after school.  But the next day, his excitement of it had thankfully died down and the disk is now just sitting on his desk.