July 2013 Activities

July begins with Independence day. We did go and see fireworks, but I managed not to bring my phone camera. I did bring glow bracelets for the kids which were a big hit waiting for the show to start.

Princess and Little Guy making froot loop necklaces again.

July also meant we could go in for an ultrasound! Yep, in November we are expecting a new baby to join our family! We are very excited.

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We aren't finding out the gender until the birth!

We took the kids to Home Depot for the monthly building project. They are getting very good at it. Here is Princess nailing on the sides - she is quite good at it on her own now.

Little guy needs a little more guidance from Dad.

These two don't even sit near me anymore, they just go build it on their own now. Silly big kids growing up.

Here we are with our finished "minion" cars.

Trainboy really likes building structures out of these blocks. I often find towers built in my room.

We had some school history projects to finish up, here we are making candy stew using a Shakespeare poem. Dinoguy was really into it. He has a dramatic flair!

We had our last swim meet and shaved the boys' heads for it. Dinoguy loved it, Trainboy cried about having his head shaved until his dad shaved his head in solidarity. Fixitman pushed for me to shave Little Guy's head too, but I couldn't get myself to shave his beautiful red hair. What if it didn't come in red again?

Trainboy waiting to swim

Dinoguy waiting to swim

Shortly after pushing off.

Boys and their good friend we went to the meet with.

Princess with a shape design when she asked me to take a picture/

She also wanted a picture of this coloring page she did for her grandma.

June 2012 Viking History

We worked on history projects in June about the Vikings, a favorite topic of Dinoguy. He loves Viking myths and history. Here you can see the Viking ship, longhouse and Viking bread.

Here you can see how good Sarge is with kids, as he lets Baby straddle him. I don't allow the kids to be mean to Sarge, but babies inevitably try out climbing on the dog. He tolerates it when they are little until I've successfully taught them it's not nice. It's now six months later and Baby tries to feed treats to Sarge instead of sitting on him, so we're making progress.

May 2012 Activities and photos

Since it is six months later that I am posting this finally, let's go with quick summary style. Here are the best pictures from the month of May and short captions to try and explain what happened that month.

Baby wearing training pants. Mostly because I think I ran out of diapers that day.

Princess and Baby were spontaneously wrestling. It was funny to watch.

Princess grew these beans and was very excited to eat them.

He's just super cute.

A monster patch I did on Baby's pants.

Mother's day breakfast with my four helpers.

Trainboy lost a front tooth.

Pretty Princess

A history food project. One of our favorite things to do.

Baby gets a toddler bed. He was thrilled until he realized what it was intended for. Did not sleep in it for months. (Now demands to sleep in it though.)

An old hotel was imploded in town. We got up really early to go watch. It came down loud and fast!

My sister was visiting at the time. Here we are waiting for the blast.

Yay for early morning explosions!

Princess began her muffin making career (with Jiffy mixes) in May

Trainboy expresses his love for doing dishes. See the joy in his face?

Dinoguy attempts to defy gravity with a chair while reading.

Showing off some history projects.

Trainboy is ready for a battle.

Cutest civil war union soldier award.

Scrumptious cheeks for kissing.

Princess shows off her new jumper that Grandma made her.

South Carolina trip

We were in South Carolina for most of July visiting my parents and brother. Lots of great fun was had.

Earned Junior Ranger badges at Fort Moultrie

Pirates and underground jails and storage in Charleston

Big guns in Battery Park

Big guns at Fort Moultrie

Picking and eating blueberries

My brother was a champion picker!

Grandpa and Princess

Fishing in the canal at Great Grandma's

Hi Great Grandma!

Hugging Grandparents

Bonding with Reggie the dog

A lovely grimace from Fixitman

Baby in his new church vest I finished crocheting. At the 1st beach house before it flooded...

Playing at Folly Beach

Playing in the sloo

Trainboy and his sand castle

Baby loved eating the beach

Princess had lots of fun too

So we went to Fort Moultrie, to downtown Charleston's Battery Park and the museum with the underground jail and pirates that used to be the coast but is now several blocks from the ocean. We picked blueberries, visited Great Grandma several times and spent a week at the beach. My parents got a beach house because my brother was doing a lifeguard camp all week and instead of driving the hour to and from the beach every day it was a chance for a small vacation that we enjoyed very much. Though there was the adventure of the rain that caused the beach house to flood and we had to move to another beach house! My sister came out from Utah to play at the beach too and that was fun.