puppies and fun

I hope that my boys will always have a special place in their heart for the adults in their life who love them as if they were their own.  One of those people is my friend Laura (remember the friend who was my job-share partner and we swapped kids for about a year and a half).  I'm happy to say that we still fit in playdates about once a month (give or take) and the boys still consider Jayda and Jonah (Lo's oldest 2) to be a few of their closest friends. Laura's family lives out in a bunch of trees next to her parents and their dog just had puppies!  We went up to see the brand new babies when they were just a few days old.  Isaiah looked at them for about a minute and  that was enough, but our little animal lover Levi spent some time with them and even held one! 

After visiting the puppies we had to stick around for some more fun out in the trees!

And I love these two buddies.  It's a bit sad to say that their interests are developing and Isaiah is definitely a boy and Jayda is definitely a girl so their interests just don't match up most of the time anymore.  (Like before these pictures Isaiah wanted to get down in the dirt to play and Jayda wanted to stay clean and water the plants).  But put them together, they still have lots of fun. 

Can't wait to go see the puppies again before they all go to their new homes!

baby update - first week of May

During the first week of May baby Titus...

Figured out that he has feet...

 learned to jump in a Johnny Jenny jumper

 wore his first little cap 

and stuck his tongue out a lot! 

fun fair.

The school up the street had their annual fun fair in May and we were encouraged at kindergarten roundup to take the new kindergartners.  So of course we were there! The boys had a blast playing all of the games and actually won some fun prizes!  They had a treasure box walk - just like the cake walk only you got to pick a toy (donated used toys from kids from the school) - and Levi won on the first try and picked out a super cool Optimus Prime!  We played a second time because Isaiah was bummed he didn't win - and to our surprise he won on round 2!  We also did the book walk and won our very own copy of Skippyjon Jones that the boys were over the top excited about!  The other games and activities were a lot of fun too, the boys enjoyed a round or two in the inflatables and Isaiah was thrilled to see the loft in the library.  All in all I think Isaiah was pretty excited and proud of his new school which was what the night was all about!  I cannot believe we almost have a kindergartner on our hands - but I can tell these next years of elementary school are going to be lots of fun!

all 3 take 2

On May 2 we did another attempt for Mother's Day cards ... I think I used one from here - I can't even remember for sure which one I went with anymore :)

Love my boys!

by the way - notice that Isaiah has footed jammies on again - I'm not sure why he loves them so much, but he does!

May day.

The boys were excited about May Day this year!  I almost forgot about it, but the night before I remembered and made sure we had the stuff to make some baskets in the morning.  They were simple - but that made it even better.  We took red cups and used letter stickers to spell out names on them and filled them with some popcorn and candy (nothing wrong with using leftover Easter candy, right? -- Levi tried to sneak in a candycane, but I figured that was going a bit too far!) and used the few pipe cleaners that we had as handles and the rest of the baskets got yarn.  The boys couldn't wait to go pass them out.  It was a day Caiden was with us too so he was just as excited.  Because of the limited time we had before school we did 13 baskets, but I think if time wasn't a factor the boys would have wanted to go all day!  We also stuck to friends close to home. 

The boys couldn't have been more excited when Emersyn dropped a basket off for each boy right before bed too.  What a fun day!  

fire station.

Isaiah's preschool class took their spring field trip to the fire station. Luckily I was able to get the afternoon off work to go along and Mark was able to sneak away from work too.   It was so cute to see all the kids excited about all the fire trucks and it was also very interesting to hear all the firemen had to say.  I think we all learned a lot!   Isaiah said his favorite part was that he got to touch the fireman suit.

One thing to note in the pictures below is Isaiah and the sweet little red-haired girl - this is Vivianne - one of his favorite friends from school, isn't she cute? :)

Gotta love my little fireman! 

all 3

I was trying to get a good picture of all 3 boys for Mother's Day cards on April 25....I thought they looked so cute all in jammies - which by the way - Isaiah still LOVES these footed jammies and insists on wearing them at least once or twice a week even when it's 90 degrees outside.  :)  Levi also insists on wearing his footed jammies, but immediately switches to shorts as soon as I put him to bed. Unfortunately we didn't capture a picture that night, but I think they are kinda funny anyway...