Playing like a kid again

One of my favorite parts about elementary school was being able to use pattern blocks. I was even lucky enough to play with them whenever I wanted outside of school because I was lucky enough to have a first-grade teacher for a mom. I remember taking the bus from school and being dropped off at my mom's school and I would play for hours with the pattern blocks in her classroom while my mom graded papers and made lesson plans. I got to play "school" every day in a real life classroom. Recently my mom gave us some pattern blocks that her school was going to throw away and so she grabbed a big tub of them and gave them to us when she was here for Christmas. She also has a box of them at home and boy, do my girls love pattern blocks, too! Calista is even getting the idea that she can make a pattern with them and she will line them up so straight and they have to be just right. My poor kids don't have a chance. They come from two parents (one more than the other) who likes things just the right way. Téa is a little more obsessive with things like that but I see the same thing coming out in Calista, too. While in California we were in the living room; me, my mom and the girls were playing pattern blocks and made a great butterfly. Téa was very proud of it and wanted to take a picture. So, here it is. (the picture is also to show Daddy what she did)