Randomness

I'm still not caught up on my blog, but I'm going to take a minute to record some randomness.  This week has been our first full week of summer break. We have gone swimming 3 days in a row in not so hot weather.  Chloe is quite the swimmer and will even swim laps. Coleman is getting better and better. He can swim, just doesn't want to do the swim test at the pool. Clay knows no fear, and doesn't understand why he can't go on the big water slides.

Cole introduced the kids to washers last night. If you have been to my house you know we play all kinds of sports indoors. I didn't feel quite confident with Clay throwing metal washers in my living room. Cole quickly said what could he do? Literally, the next second he hit Coleman right in the head. 

Coleman has always been my main cooking assistant. Clay has decided now that he is a helper too. He gets a chair up to the counter at rapid speed, and says "I cook". He is more into quality control than anything else. It hasn't definitely made Coleman a little sad that someone else is trying to take his place.

Clay's obsession of Veggie Tales has had to die down a bit. He has figured out how to get to the DVDs and has broken quite a few. I am having to keep them hidden. He is quite the talker. It is so fun when kids go from saying words to full out conversation.

We are trying to stay active this summer and have lots of fun! We need to stay active so we can enjoy treats!

 

We did lots of bug hunting at my parents house last week. The dollar store had bug houses, which was a great way to spend a dollar! Chloe could play with the bugs for hours. Clay kept using his bug tweezers in the dirt. He thought he was getting lots of bugs, but really was just getting clumps of dirt.

Clay's Cast

I don't have very many pictures of Clay with his cast.

Poor thing, when he slept he hit his head.

SO GLAD THE CAST IS OFF

Barnyard Moosical

The first grade at Chloe's school did the cutest musical about barnyard animals.

Chloe was a cow, which she was ecstatic about because the cows did a chorus line!

Chloe and her music teacher, Mrs. Treseder

All-Sports Spectacular

Coleman's 5th birthday was an all-sports spectacular.

Since this boy loves anything related to any type of sports, we did tried to include all sports.

We had his party at the church.

It was a fun time of bouncing, playing basketball, and eating cake!

Family party

For dinner on Saturday we went to El Tequila.

We had to promise Coleman we would not sing to him, 

but daddy thought it would be funny to have them sing to mommy.

After dinner we enjoyed watching Coleman open some presents.

Chloe used her own money to buy this at the school book fair. 

Maw Maw and Bubba got Coleman a Pirate ship and figurines.

Uncle Michael, Aunt Anne, the boys, and Angelina got him this 

spy glass and some more figurines. 

Last sleep as a 4 year old

Good night sweet boy!

Easter

This was our first Easter to have no one in town.

Normally, Coleman's birthday party is the same weekend, but Easter was so early this year.

We dyed eggs.

Yes, Coleman isn't wearing a shirt.

My need for a stain free shirt won over a cute picture.

Easter Baskets:

Our Easter egg hunt was indoors.

I only have pictures of Clay, 

because by the time it was the big kids

 turn we were all sorta melting down.

Clay likes to sit in the sound booth and watch Veggie Tales.

Colt and Clay joined in the hunt together.

Easter Lunch at our house.

Normally, my mom fries chicken.

This year we just had ham as our meat.

We had two families over from our church.

We had French Silk pie, which has become our families tradition for dessert.