don't forget Winona

Rylee requested a Lego motor bike set from the Easter Bunny, who also brought a Lego Technic dune buggy for Jackson. Rylee was very pleased, and Jackson appeared to be challenged by his, which featured all sorts of spring suspensions, gears and chain drives...even a piston, leaving only a working engine for the future. Ry has a desk in the boys' room filled with many of his Lego buildings, ships, cars, planes, and minifigures laid out on top, a mix of different play scenes. When he is not playing with those, he often sits in a basket in the corner to play on his tablet. Jackson is almost always at his desk on his computer. Yesterday, he was working with some software he hasn't used in a while and he showed me the three-dimensional graphic he designed: an apple.

Ry was very excited because Tuesday was the first day of his enrichment class. He goes again today. He wrote out his first assignment about future inventions, and he came up with three, including a hoverseat, while we talked. Jackson's apple is part of his independent studies project on computers.

After a week or so of mild, spring-like weather, with little wind, we got blasted with a storm that brought relentless gusts on Monday evening, while Rylee had practice, followed by cold and rain and even some snow. Today doesn't look good so far for Jack's game this afternoon, which will likely be played, but should improve some for Ry's game tomorrow, with much better weather for Saturday's games. We needed the rain, and, fortunately, the temperature did not drop to freezing here in the city.