Thursday ramblings

It's amazing to me how quickly this summer has passed by. We've had so much fun, enjoying the weather and each other. Today marks three weeks until school starts. So much that I still want to fit in in that three weeks. Obviously the biggest plan is June Lake for the boys. Nanny and Grandad have generously offered to take the boys on vacation for 8 days. I'm so excited for them but oh' my heart does a little flip flop when I think of them being gone for that long. I know they will have a great time and come back with memories that will last a lifetime. Our house will be so incredibly quiet though! Luckily I still have one snuggle bug around the house! Speaking of which we finally figured out when she starts preschool, 9/9/09. It sounds way too soon to me! How can my baby be a preschooler? (Heavy sigh...)

We've been cracking up at some of Sara's words lately. Her vocabulary is really growing. Actually and awesome seem to find their way into almost every sentence. A few weeks ago we had some friends over for dinner. As a nice summer dessert we made Jello Jigglers in Cantaloupe. You slice the melon in wedges to make a nice summer treat. Ever since then Sara has been talking about the yummy Jellop we had that night! I can't bring myself to correct her, Jellop is so cute!

We have tons of plans for next week. Several playdates, movies, park...lots of fun to spoil our solo chick-a-dee! I'm sure there will be lots of pictures to follow.

Yesterday Sara was having a little quiet time in her room. We didn't want her to sleep since it was later in the afternoon so when it was quiet for more than a few minutes I was suspicious. This is what I found, Sleeping Beauty in the closet. If that weren't cute enough, look closely at her underwear. She put one of her doll diapers on! Not that it fit or that she put it on correctly. Concerned about an accident maybe!?!?!?

Iain with a frog in his hand. He couldn't stop giggling.

Sara still likes to put her things in the fridge to 'keep them safe'. This time around was chapstick, a rice krispie treat, and jewel stickers.

Next

The rest of the day went like this...

presents.baseball.cake.more presents.more baseball.bed

Sweet dreams.

7 is a wonderful number

Lots of baseball, many gifts and a plethora of yummy treats! What a brilliant way to celebrate Sean! He is such an amazing kid. Of course I'm a bit biased but he really is! I promise! He is such a sweet, kind soul. Well this kind soul had us stepping out of our box today. Since the boys both had games, we weren't able to have our usual birthday dinner to celebrate. We decided to go out to breakfast instead. The crazy kid chose McDonald's!!! (Blech!!) We tried to talk him into something else...anything else. Then we decided is was his day so The Golden Arches it was. The entire experience was quite comical. I was walking around taking pictures like a Japanese tourist!! If I was going to be at a fast food restaurant (word used very loosely) at 9:00am, I was going to get good pictures!!

Even looking at the picture makes me laugh!

Birthday Boy in his brother's favorite jersey.

She enjoyed her meal!

Nothing like the Playland

My beverage. I think I ended up taking all of 3 sips before I tossed it.

Starbucks it was not.

A few squirts of hand sanitizer and we were on to the next...

Playin' Around

Even though we have been completely swallowed up with baseball, we've still managed to enjoy other aspects of summer. The kids have found a new love close to my heart...board games. Those of you who know me well, probably remember how often I would play games by myself as a child. My sister wasn't a big game player so I would be both players and move everyone around the board. I remember playing Monopoly and buying properties for both sides. It definitely didn't have the excitement of two people but hey, I enjoyed it! Anyway as I was saying, it pleases me to see the kids playing board games. Some they play together, others just the boys, or some solo. Connect Four is one that seems to be a favorite right now. The boys think it is hilarious to sneak four across on each other.

The only pic I can find right now is Monopoly...

Sara has always played very well by herself. She can sit for hours with her Littlest Petshop figures, dolls or blocks sometimes even combining them all!

This is the lunchbox she chose for her school debut in a few weeks. She carries it around the house as her purse and dresses it up a bit with beads. Quite the accessorizor!

Completely unrelated but, cannonballs anyone?

4th of July

I know I'm back tracking quite a bit here, but I'm really trying to catch up. I'm about done with all the 'events' but still have cute little tid bits to tell.

This year we changed up the 4th. We've been doing the same thing each year for so long, we thought it was time to step out of our box a little. The boys started out the morning in the local parade with Grandad. They were on top of a firetruck waving to all the parade watchers! SO cute! When they got home we went over to a friend's house for a bbq and swim. The kids ran around and played/swam for hours. Once it got dark we went and met some other friends for fireworks. Fireworks are not allowed in our city so we met a few families in a parking lot about 10 minutes away. We had so much fun! The kids were able to light some of the smaller ones, while the adults lit the big ones. Iain was in the middle of it all like a little pyro. Even though we hadn't been there before, it seemed to be the "parking lot" of choice for many families we know. By the end there were probably close to 100 people, if not more. From where we were, we were able to see several other shows going on in the sky as well. Nothing like a sky full of fireworks!

After the parade.

This is after the parade too! Not quite sure if he was going for the Einstein look?? It's so him though. He's a crack up!

Silly boy!

She wasn't so sure of the loud booms that were going on everywhere.

Digging through the stockpile to see what he wanted to light next.

The three 4th of July Amigos