Friday Morning at the Children's Museum

Noah and his mom invited us to go to the Children's Museum yesterday.  It's been a long, rainy week, and it was definitely time to get out of the house.  The boys had a great time running around the museum, playing with the balls in the ball room, exploring in the water table, and checking out the "constructionville" room. 

Here are some pictures:

watching the balls

in the ball room

in the elevator

in constructionville

riding the bobcat

in the (very creepy) hair salon

playing the steel drums

he loved it!

inside the school bus

sawing wood

water table!

caught him just before he tried to lick it

Teacher Gabe

While Gabe was waiting for his mac 'n cheese to cook today, I gave him a few goldfish crackers to eat.  He must have channeled his inner teacher, because he started asking me a series of questions. 

These are the questions:

-which fish is the furthest?
-which fish are touching?
-which fish are a couple?

And then he started humming a song from school and talking about his teacher, Miss Jill.  Too funny.  I love that he's practicing what he's learning.

Dust Flowers

Our backyard is crazy.  Crazy out of control.  It looks like a weed pasture.  And it's driving J nuts.  A landscaper was scheduled to come and remove our dirt heap (and cut the grass), but it's been raining so much that he hasn't been able to come.  Pictures cannot capture the level of crazy that we have going on in the backyard. 

Here are a few pictures anyway:

can you see how long the grass is?  (and there's our new pool fence!)

full of weeds

This post is really not about our t-razy backyard, but it is related to the weeds growing in it.  This morning, Gabe noticed that there are tons of dandelions in the backyard - the dandelions that have fluff.  Like most kids, Gabe loves to crush the fluffy dandelions, and now I know why he feels so passionately about crushing them.  As soon as he looked outside today, Gabe said, "I need to go outside, Mom.  I have a lot of dust flowers to chomp." 

Gabe does not like dust.  He'll pick up a dust bunny from the floor and throw it away, he'll swish it with his arms when he sees it in the light, etc.  And now his backyard is full of crazy dust flowers!

look out, dust flowers

Gabe's coming

and he's going to chomp you



Spirit Week - Pajama Day

Yesterday, Gabe got to wear his pajama's to school for spirit week.  Wearing his pajamas got him pretty excited, so I wasn't able to get a good shot of him.  He was running around and acting silly for the camera; this is the best that I could do:

wearing my new crocs, too

cheese!

chasing Zach around the kitchen with my bus

running away from Gabe with my bus

Zach hiding behind the curtain

I need to make a video of this.  Zach's so excited when he's hiding that his little legs are kicking up and down at rapid speed.  all you see are little legs moving.

now there are two little boys hiding

Zach's Trademark

Every night, when Jason and I get ready for bed, this is what greets us in our bathroom:

doors open, stuff on the floor

stuff in the tub

And we know that Zach's been in our room.  It's his trademark.  At first, we'd walk in to find a zillion q-tips scattered on the floor.  When we moved the q-tips out of reach, he'd put all of our perfume/cologne on the floor.  Now, stuff goes on the floor and stuff gets dropped into the tub. Why is this fun?  I know.  We need locks on our bathroom cabinets.  Problem solved.  But, every night when we put all of this stuff back, I always wonder what's so fun about dropping stuff into the tub.  And it seriously only takes him a SECOND to accomplish this mess.  

Crocodile Hats

Remember the crocodile hats that I brought back from Florida?  Both boys were wearing them yesterday while running around the kitchen.  I tried to get a good shot of both of them with the hats on, but they never stopped running.

Here's what I got:

Cute, huh?

A Playdate for Zach

I hosted a small playdate for Zach yesterday.  Our friends, Will, Jack & Zoe came over with their moms while Gabe was at school.  I felt guilty having a playdate without Gabe, but it actually was the most relaxing playdate ever.  And I think it's good for Zach to have some activities that are just for him.

I got some more canvases for the kids, and we had a painting party.

Zoe's painting her hand

Zoe & Will

I gave the kids cars to dip in paint and then make tracks on the canvas.  Zach loved it.