First off, here's a shout out to my little fellas for their awesome Mother's Day presents they made for me! The most beautiful cards in the world with cut out shapes glued on them. LOVE them!!! Also, Riley and Gage each handpainted little cardboard flower pots and grew little Marigold plants from seeds in their classrooms. They started this project a long time ago and were so excited to present these to me. Toooo cute = )
We've also been busy at our house planting wildflower seeds in various locations. The boys and I are so excited to see them start growing. It's been a fun project for us and has brought about many questions about growing up. It's so amazing to see the little lightbulbs go on above the boys heads when the finally "get" the connection about growing. We've been doing a lot of comparisons with the flowers and the boys in regard to how the right food and water will help each of them grow big and strong. Of course, we usually end up on some far off tangent by the end of the conversation ... but that makes is even more fun! For example, Riley weighed himself the other morning and he now weighs 40 lbs. I told him that was awesome and that he was getting so big and strong because of the good food and water that he's been drinking. His response was, "Yeah! Now I'm 40 pounds! Now I can go shoot a gun and go deer hunting with Papa! And drive a car!!!" Hmmmmm, not quite what I meant, but that's just one of many differences in the way the mind of a 4 year old works and the mind of a 30-something year old mom works = )And then there's Gage. Sweet little food-lovin' Gage. There are several things that have stuck with him from our trip home last weekend, but the ones he talks about the most, of course, involve food. The first one is Tiger Soup. What's that you say? Well, the boys were enjoying some soft serve DQ vanilla ice cream at their Grandma and Papa's house and wanted some chocolate syrup with it. Upon mixing these two thing together, the swirled chocolate really struck a chord with our little redhead and he deemed his creation Tiger Soup. He now requests this daily and gets just as excited each time ... although, he definitely knows it's cute and really hams it up as he's stirring his "Tiger Soup." His other food memory is Grandma's delicious fruit salad with "ALL THE FLAVORS!" He'll then continue to name each fruit that was in the salad. It's amazing the things that stick with these kiddos. I made the fruit salad twice this week for our little foodie, but the 2nd time I didn't have any pineapple. Oh my goodness, did I hear about that the whole time he was eating!!!! "Mmmmm, mom, this fruit salad is good! It's got apples and bananas and peaches and strawberries and blueberries. It's delicious! But, it doesn't have pineapple. I really like pineapple ... " Oh Gage, always one for the details = )
This little video is the boys new favorite kamikaze thing to do. The rides on here are mild compared to some of the craziness that can happen on the whizzing trip down the decline of the driveway. They sure are good at finding new ways to make their mom's heart rate rise!
Other than that, this past week and weekend flew by so fast. Nothing really of note occurred, just all of the daily stuff that fills up every second so fast. Riley has been requesting to go swimming at the beach almost non-stop. I would soooooo love to take him, but Mother Nature needs to get her act in gear fast. These dreary rainy days are for the birds! Yesterday, even little forever-on-the-go Gage had apparently had enough of the dreariness. I snapped this picture at about 5:00. Corey and I were doing some cleaning around the house while Gage and Riley were reading books and/or watching cartoons. The next thing we know it has gotten eerily quiet, which typically is not a good thing if you know what I mean. So we peak into the living room to expecting to catch the boys in some type of shenanigans, but instead found this sweetness ...
Yep, just snuggled up in his cozy cocoon and taking a little snooze. Could he be any cuter? The rest of us decided he had the right idea so we spent the rest of the evening just relaxing and not doing much of anything. What a great night! Now we're all rested up to take on whatever this week has to offer = )
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