Quote of the Day or maybe Lifetime

"I hope it's a black baby!"

Kale

Back to Escuela

The boys started back to school today. I walked them each to their classroom.

Logan took on the first day of 2nd grade like it was no big deal. He even let me take a couple of pictures. His best buddy Connor is in his class which he is totally pumped about. He's excited about his teachers. We're lucky that so far he really likes school. Not sure he will like the reading, studying and homework that go with it but time will tell.

Lucas had a lot of nervous energy getting ready for his first day of Kindergarten. This was real school. Once we got to the school the nervous energy was bottled up and he looked terrified. He held my hand as we walked the hallways to ditch his brother. Then it was his turn. His little hand remain secure in mine the whole walk to his room. While there is only 16 kids in his class, there were a million people in his room. It was overwhelming. We found his desk and took out his school supplies and then hung his backpack up. The whole time Lucas had big eyes on and immediately just did everything I told him to do. He took his seat and was both silent and still. I quietly asked him if he was scared. He replied in his weak little voice, "No". His face and body language certainly said otherwise. We worked on a name puzzle made out of poker chips. I introduced him to the kids at his table of five. He knew 2 of them but they were girls so he wasn't too stoke about that. We talked about how fun the day would be, what to expect and where to go after school. The time had come and I had to leave my brave little boy to be on his own. I whispered good bye in his ear and he turned and gave me a hug and a kiss. I told him he would have the best day ever and he whispered, "I know". I walked out as he sat in his chair, still and silent.

Quote of the Day

"When I get a Jeep it's gonna have a loud muffalers."

Kale

Back to "school"

Kale started back at Miss Brenda's this week. He's pretty ticked that he isn't going to school so we got him a backpack, new school shoes, and school supplies for him and his buddies so that it would seem like school. He will do some learning there so there's no harm in calling it school if that makes him happy. He didn't have to start this week but he wanted to. That kid is so stinking cute and growing up way too fast!

PS...Kasey that is milk on his shorts from his cereal not what you were thinking! It stressed him out and we nearly had to change shorts.

Logan's Guardian Angel

Logan is blessed with the best Guardian Angel ! Wednesday night Steve was mowing the yard. He was mowing the narrow strip in front the house at the top of the steep hill. He shut down the mower and went to help Lucas (who got a fishing hook stuck in his leg. Superficial...he was totally okay). While Steve was helping Lucas, Logan decided to hop on the mower. When he jump on he accidentally knocked the mower out of gear and into neutral. The mower and Logan began the scary journey backward, diagonally down the hill. The mower crashed into the bottom of the hill throwing Logan off. The mower flipped up backward and fell on it's side on top of Logan's leg. Steve sprinted down the hill and got the mower off of Logan. Aside from a small knot on the back of his head and scrapes around his eye, knees and ankle...Logan was perfectly fine. It scared the #!$@ out of Logan and Steve. I got home from work just in time to witness Steve dragging the mower up the street with a chain hooked on to the front of the Yukon. Needless to say Logan could have gotten very hurt but thanks to his guardian angel that wasn't the case! He felt really bad about breaking the lawn tractor...which was the least of our concerns. All of the boys learned a huge lesson about the mower (and cars) that day. Logan is hoping his eye heals by Monday so he doesn't have to tell anyone what happened...well, except he'll tell Connor.

Thanks to our neighbor, Leahman, the steering column is fixed and the front wheels know point in the same direction. Mower will be back to normal once Steve figures out how the level out the mulching deck.

Kale's Ladies

So we were shopping at the mall. We found ourselves browsing through the Gap. Steve and Lucas hit the Men's side while Kale, Logan and I swung through the women's side. Toward the back of the store they had their Jeans with like 5 banner's hanging from the ceiling with a different model on each one. They all looked about like this:
Out of nowhere Kale casually says, "Those are my girlfriends."

Logan and I busted up laughing.

The little fish

Friday night the Boy Scouts hosted a swim event at a local Aquatic Center after hours, 8:00 - 10:00 pm. Too late for me but we endured. While it was unseasonably cool, it didn't stop the B boys from swimming. Well it did slow down Kale some they all swam a ton none the less. And that Kale is turning into a little fish. He will now put his whole body underwater and swim forward. He's awesome. No fears, just takes on the water. Logan manned up and took on the big water slides. Lucas got held up with the height card. He wasn't phased by it. Logan also earned his swimming belt loop...which I may of already said he earned last year...but we are totally legit now.

Another Summer Adventure

Big daddy took the B boy and totally abandoned me hit the road to good ole Great Bend. They spent 3 fun filled days and nights in GB. I suffered quietly at home all alone....are you kidding it was totally awesome! Quiet. No messes. 100% me time. My own schedule. Oh, it was like Calgon took me away...Sorry, enough about me and more about their trip.

Steve planned quite a bit for the B boys while in his stomping grounds from his youth. They went to Vet's Park and Lucas nearly killed himself on the tank. Huge not on his head from trying to jump to grab onto the barrel of the tank. Not a good idea. They visited Grandpa Ben's farm. There they collect rocks, learned to skip rocks, hiked, toured the the old farm buildings (one of them was covered in decomposed cow poop which per Lucas was the highlight), and Logan shot his first gun...it was a BB gun...which is a total miracle that I said yes to that! They loved the visit to the farm!! They went fishing and totally suckered Grandma into buying them more fishing tackle. They visited the GB zoo. They built bird house's with Grandpa. They ate like kings and played hard.

They loved their visit to GB!

1,2,3, 4 get your woman on the floor...

This song is on Steve's play list and of course the boys sing it all the time. You know, 'cuz it's super appropriate. So after this bath (which is allegedly supposed to clean the boys)
we got to witness this amazing dance session kicked of by K-Diddy. The little nudey was signing as he got his jambos on and then started busting out some sweet dance moves. So Steve backed them up with the song and I pulled out the camera to video. Ahhhh, a normal day in our house...

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Washable

It's amazing how quickly the B boys can cause me problems. This morning after Steve got the boys spit shine for church, my sweet little Lucas walks up to me with a marker and says, "Mom, is this washable? I can't tell 'cuz I can't read yet." I tell him, "Yup, whatcha planning on doing?", I ask. "Nothin'. Just coloring." So I say, "K. Don't make any big messes as we are going to leave in a little bit." "K, Mom", says my innocent little man. About 10 minutes later I holler at them to come down stairs to brush their teeth and walk out the door. The response I get, "K. We're coming but, Kale has red marker on his face (failing to mention that he had blue marker on his face)...but it's washable!" Are you kidding me???? Clean-up was quick but give me a break. These kids are 5 & 3 and are totally aware of the "Don't write on skin" rule I have. Come on!