A Family Evening

As dinner winds up most evenings, Nathan is ready to be done and out of his high chair before Brian and I are quite finished eating. So we wash him up and get him down, after which he immediately begins asking "Daddy build house Na-Na. Mommy build house Na-Na." Our standard answer is after Daddy and Mommy finish eating and clean up the table.

After we get the table cleared, I usually shoo Brian off with both kiddos to Nathan's room while I finish cleaning up the kitchen. Then, depending on how tired Sarah is, I either put her straight to bed or I'll hang out with the three of them in Nathan's room.

This past week, I walked into his room and saw this pretty incredible tower that Nathan was designing and building (Brian only helped getting the big block properly positioned on the bottom supports). I hurried back to the kitchen to grab the camera, and ended up photographing the whole evening.

The tower fell right after I took this photo.  But Nathan wasn't too upset as he had this fun to get in on:

By the time it was my turn to get a picture with Sarah, she decided that she would try to eat my face so I would understand how hungry she was! So it was off to bed with her and the end of an enjoyable evening with the family.