Cartoons

So Jack's latest hobby is cartoons. Charles explained to him how cartoons were made frame by frame. Since then he has been SO into drawing cartoons frame by frame. I am not exaggerating when I say he has spent hours a day doing these cartoons. Basically he takes one piece of paper and draws a figure and then takes another piece of paper and draws the next scene etc. We have gone through a lot of paper. He then tries to flip through them really quickly to give the 'effect' of a moving picture. It works in his mind (only).

He has improved but he has a long way to go still! His drawings definitely feels six-year-old-ish, but his creative side is to be admired. This weekend we saw friends in Oxford. Their teenage daughters very kindly helped Jack re-enact his Boston Tea Party Cartoon and were clever enough to video it with their iphones.

Here is Jack's first taped cartoon. Note that Jack also changes his voice at one point to match with a new character.

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Snowy London

In an earlier post I mentioned that we got 5-6 inches of snow last Saturday night. That is a lot of snow for most places, but it is a ton for London. Here are some pictures from our fun in it later that afternoon:

Happy Birthday Adelaide!

Today we celebrated Addie's second birthday. Time has gone very quickly indeed!  We started the morning with a few presents before breakfast. Theo chose to give her an apron (as she always insists on having one on like Mommy) and Jack chose to give her a necklace of beads. Charles and I gave her a baby doll that looks quite real. She was super pleased.
We then had good friends stop by for a cupcake mid-morning and are looking forward to a family Pizza Hut outing later this evening to finish the celebration off.

Here are some of the pictures from this morning:

I forgot to mention that it snowed another 1-2 inches last night so here is Addie on the morning of her first 'white birthday':

Addie excited by her beads:

Still excited but moving on to  her next gift (so Daddy isn't late to work):

Getting some help from Theo:

Overly excited by hre baby:

Thanking Jack for the present:

Love of a son

We got about 5-6 inches of snow on Saturday night and had a great time playing in it on Sunday afternoon. Pictures to come in the next post.

Charles left for work on Monday morning as normal walking across campus to chapel. Given the amount of snow we had received it was still quite snowy and icy on Monday morning. Charles left carrying his computer bag and a music stand that he had brought home to practice his sermon on Saturday. About ten minutes after he left I got this text from Charles:

'BTW fell in on my butt in Ruston Gardens.'

After a quick chuckle, I acted mildly upset  by the text and the kids asked what was wrong. I told them that Daddy had fallen on his bottom in Ruston Gardens on his way to chapel. Jack's first comment was 'oh I hope the music stand is okay.'

Name that Tune Part 3

We had quite the recording session yesterday. Jack would be ever so pleased if those inclined would guess what tune he is playing. Here is the first one: