I took the boys to the fountains today to meet up with some of their friends. This was Ryan's first trip to the fountains. One word.....fearless! I remember having to coax Kyle to stick his foot in, let alone run through them. This kid just walked right in and had a blast. Check out the video.....
The water was a little cold. I had to keep toweling them off because they were shivering, but neither wanted to get out!
Somehow these birthdays just keep creeping up on me. I know it has nothing to do with these two little monsters sucking up my every minute :) So, now I'm 34, approaching those mid 30's all too quickly! Rick and I went to a nice dinner downtown last weekend to celebrate. On the way down in the car we were listening to a station that was playing songs from my late teenage years and early 20's. For a few moments I actually felt young again. You know, all dressed up, going down town, singing along to a good tune and then while eating dinner we watched all of the "12" year olds walk by heading to the bars. That's when I remembered I was 34 again. But, life is good at 34, I can't complain! No need to relive the past!
With my birthday came this beautiful summerlike weather. We've been playing outside a lot these days. Here's Ryan playing Peek-a-boo...
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| From April 2009 |
We met up with some friends at the park this week.
We spent Easter weekend this year at Grammy and Papa's house. We all had such a good time. On Saturday morning we took the kids to an egghunt at the neighborhood park. Usually there isn't another kid around for miles when we visit, but on this day about 150 little ones, mostly grandchildren, decended upon the park to fill their baskets and get a glimpse of the Easter bunny. While we waited for the hunt to begin, Grammy was coaching Kyle on how score the most eggs. Her strategy paid off in the end because he came away with a basket full. Ryan even got a few too, until he started throwing them back :)
I don't know if the turkey was laced with Benedryl or what, but this is how lunch went over today :)
There are winners and there are losers. We have a little routine in this house at nighttime....racing jammies. This started maybe 2 or 3 months ago to mainly get Kyle to cooperate putting on his jammies instead of chasing him around the room getting the top on here and the bottom on there while he acts like he's hopped up on sugar. It worked like a charm. Oh did I mention the race is between him and his unsuspecting little brother? Rick and I team up with one of them, it's not always the same. Anyway, it's turned into an obsession. Every night it's "Can we race jammies?" Well, we use to make sure Kyle won because he was so excited about it. But, after the "gloating" I realized maybe that wasn't such a good idea. So, we rigged it one night where little brother took the gold and Kyle came in a close second with the silver. He really wasn't too upset, so I thought we were good. Then it happened a few more times by chance. Well, we're not so much the gracious loser anymore, more like the extremely ridiculously kicking and screaming soar loser. So, we had a little talk about winning and losing tonight. I'm pretty sure that talk will be long forgotten at 7:30 p.m. tomorrow when the green flag drops, but we'll just have to see.
This weekend was so beautiful. We couldn't have asked for better weather, so we spent a lot of time outside. Unfortunately, there is some serious pollen floating in the air this week. Everything has a nice yellow dusting. It looks like poor little Ryan is suffering from an allergy to something floating in the air because he has been sneezing like crazy and sporting the red eyes and a wonderfully runny nose. I hope it passes soon because after the winter we've had, I am SO done with wiping noses! We decided to suck it up and have a good time outside anyway, so we had a little picnic in the backyard. Here's our 39 weeks and counting: My kids and I.....
Ok, totally out of the blue, Kyle started rattling off all of the planets the other day. I was a little shocked and told Rick about it. He immediately said that he must have learned it at school. I would have thought the same thing, but knew they weren't working on the planets. So, when I picked him up from school the other day I asked his teacher if they were doing the planets and she said no, but the Pre-K class is. I know they have pictures of planets around, but how would he know the names and so well. So, I convinced myself he must have learned it from an episode of Mickey Mouse Clubhouse where Goofy goes to Mars. I even paid $2 on itunes and downloaded the episode to see if they covered the planets. Nope, only the moon and Mars. So, where is he getting this from? Another TV show? I asked him and he doesn't really give me a straight answer. It's a mystery! But, it's something he seems to be excited about, so I guess we'll be studying the planets at home :)
Read more...This picture was taken on time, just not exactly posted on time :) Here we are all crammed into our favorite garden, yelling dinosaurrrrrrrrrrr!
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