Math with kids

1 Walker in living room, practicing piano
+ 1 Morgen in bedroom, sulking
+ 1 Hyrum outside, playing because he's finished his schoolwork
= 1 knocked-down "for sale" sign in the front yard with 2 weapons [sticks] lying on the ground next to it.

I wonder, who could be responsible?

"Hyrum! Come here, please!"

**Added to my super-deductive reasoning skills was this response**

"I know." [big sigh] "I'm in trouble."

1 Walker, still inside, now working on last math assignment
+ 1 Morgen, still in bedroom, still sulking
+ 1 Hyrum, now in bedroom, crying because he's in trouble [no punishment beyond the solitary confinement, just feeling terribly guilty, I guess]
= 1 fixed "for sale" sign in the front yard. 2 weapons now in backyard. I really should have thrown them in the garbage. Maybe tomorrow...

Walker's 11 years old now. Whew. Not a huge celebration- with Jared gone, we decided to do the big party/cake/presents thing next week while we're in Reno. But we did go out to eat w/some family, and the wait staff sang a Happy Birthday song to Walker ;) and we spent a few hours walking around Thanksgiving Point, admiring the gorgeous flowers- mostly tulips, since they're currently having the tulip festival- and watching my kids rough-house with their cousins. Last week we walked around the gardens w/Jon and Melinda, and this is what they looked like:

This week, there is a bit of a change in the temperature:

Does anybody have a bulldozer I could borrow? I think that this: would look perfect in my backyard right now.

Gratitude List:
* Jared will be home Sunday morning!
* texting him reminds me why I married him- great sense of humor ;)
* family in town
* playing games w/relatives
* hanging out and talking after dinner [except for Walker's repeated "can we GO now?!?" after his food was gone]
* sunny weather today after a forecast of heavy rain.
* scripture reading
* faith in God
* allergy shots so I can [hopefully] go camping this year