One of those mornings

I'm not sure why we have school closed but we do.  The prediction for weather is mild and we've had nothing since the last storm.  I think the schools wanted to just round out the last week or so to an even week of closures.  To some extent this was a blessing as we got a chance to have dinner with Uncle Kevin who we haven't seen for years... but it was in DC so we didn't get the kids to bed until after 10p.

So getting all the younger kids DSi's had worked pretty well up to this point.  Dennis love's to use it to take pictures of everyone... and the nerf armor has been great.  Amanda's DSi needing to get repaired has also resulted in friendly sharing.  For some reason this morning Dennis decided to horde all the games even though he wasn't playing any of them.  I had the intervene to ask for Amanda's pony game back which he reluctantly did.  Then Sam asked to play one of the other games and Dennis didn't want him to... I tried to explain sharing since they'd done it so well.

At this point Dennis just took all the games and tossed them onto the bed... then curled into a ball pouting.  This seems to be a not uncommon reaction... if he doesn't get enough of his way he throws his hands up and pouts.  We just left him to himself and went about our business -- tough.  He's decided he's not going to eat breakfast either... so he's just being stubborn.  At the boarding school they ate 5 meals a day so it's going to be a long time until lunch.

In less than an hour some of their friends are going to come over so their mom can head into work -- reminder, crazy school closures and Melissa is home on leave.  I suspect that activity will pull him out of his shell again.  The kids really like the table tennis table in the basement we put in this weekend.