Little brothers are pretty handy to have around...

For the past few days, Lincoln has been making paper airplanes - lots of paper airplanes.  There are scraps of paper following him around everywhere he goes.

This morning, he asked me if I thought a lot of people would buy his paper airplanes.  I didn't want to discourage him, exactly, but I told him that not many people would probably want to spend money on something they could pretty easily make by themselves...  "But what about my North/South - East/West plane?" He asked.  (He's been working on his own design and thinks it works pretty well).  I told him to keep working on them and getting them really good and then maybe someone would want to buy one.

A few minutes later, he showed me a piece of paper that he had accidentally folded to look like an ice cream cone.  Next thing I knew, he was back, exclaiming that he had already had a customer!  ... Garrett had bought his ice cream cone for $0.01...

Even the table is lonely...

Our 3 oldest girls are away for a few days - Even though we still have the four younger ones buzzing around the house and keeping it lively,we already miss the girls so much and they have only been gone for a few hours.  Since we don't want to have to throw the food to each other at the table , we thought we'd take a few leaves out of it while they are gone.

THIS is what the table looks like when all the chicks are home in the nest

This is the table missing 3 of it's chairs - doesn't it look lonely?

It has been a long time since this was the normal number of chairs around our table!

Some pictures of our trip...

... to Connor Prairie last week.