Teacher mode

Today I was in teacher mode. Thomas and Timothy played with MiMi this afternoon so I could meet with my fellow kindergarten teachers to plan our themes for the year, how meet the teacher night is going to look, and the first day of school. Whew! It was a busy few hours!
Here are my files that just have the theme, my read-aloud book of the week, and my Friday craft. This crate is stuffed!

Sports Day

Thomas went to day 2 of basketball camp today. He has been having such a good time learning the sport and playing.

Timothy had gymnastics tonight. He sure is a cute little monkey out there with his "wife" Coach Allison.

Happy Monday!

Today was Thomas' first day of basketball camp. It was also his first-ever camp. Timothy and I dropped him off at the church at 9:00 and we picked him up at 12:00. He had a great time playing basketball, making new friends, and learning about God. He gets to go back every day this week.
All the kids at the camp are grouped into teams. Thomas' team is the Spurs. Today he earned a blue star for giving his best effort! I'm so glad he had a wonderful time at his first camp experience. :-)

How To

Today's post is informative. How to paint a blue stripe in Timothy's room.
1. Trace border with a pencil. Spray border with wallpaper remover. Peel off border.

2. Wipe wall with a towel. Put green frog tape on the lines that you traced. Seal the tape by painting it with the wall color that is underneath it. Let it dry.

3. Paint primer between the tape stripes. Let it dry.

4. Paint wall color over primer. Let it dry.

5. Peel off frog tape by pulling it off at an angle - toward the color you just painted.
6. Viola! A stripe with ZERO touch-ups. Yay!

 

(Here's an awesome bookshelf that Brian built and I painted today.)

And this little helper was MESSY! That's primer on his belly. :)

Sales

Both boys proved today that they could have a future in sales. Today was our yard sale. For once, the kids slept late while I got up early. Go figure. I woke them up at about 7:30. Our yard sale had been in full swing for about half an hour by then. All I had to say was, "Get up. We have customers," and they both got right out of bed.
They were good at announcing "Lemonade for sale," every time a new car pulled up. And they did pretty well too. They made $14 selling 25¢ cups of lemonade.
They also helped sell other things at the yard sale. Thomas talked a lady that had bought some stuffed animals into buying the stuffed animal holder we had as well. He demonstrated it for her and finally talked her into it. And English was not her first language, so he must have had some convincing gestures as well.
Timothy demonstrated the toys for people and kept offering other items that we had for sale while they were paying.
It was too funny!
I think our customers appreciated their ice cold lemonade and the excellent customer service that came along with it.

Conversations

In our errand-running today, I ended up having some pretty funny conversations with the boys.

Thomas:
(we were talking about building a desk for his room)
T: so I can take the desk with me when I move to A&M to do my research and stuff on it.
Me: sure you can. That's a great idea.
T: then after I'm done with my research at A&M I'm going to move back by you and Dad.
Me: oh really? Are you going to move back into our house?
T: no, but I'm going to get my own house in the same neighborhood.
Me: OK.
T: but if there's no houses in the neighborhood where you and Dad live I'll get my own house in Fairfield because it's really close.
Me: sounds good. Are you going to have a wife with you in this house?
T: no, I'm going to wait like a year then get a wife.
:-)

Timothy:
(he was just shouting out random rhyming words)
T: Life, jife, hife, mife, wife
Me: wife? Do you have a wife?
T: yes.
Me: oh really, well who is your wife?
T: Coach Allison (his college-age gymnastics coach)
Me: oh wow! What's so great about Coach Allison that you decided she was your wife?
T: she can do cool stuff like flips and stuff.
Me: oh, and is she pretty?
T: yep. She has brown eyes and golden hair.
:-)

Summer Jar Day

This morning the boys got an activity from our summer jar. The one they pulled out today was watch movies in mom's bed.
Timothy got to pick the first movie. He picked *surprise, surprise* Harry and the Hendersons.
Thomas got to pick the second movie. He chose The Sandlot.
So, yes, my kids watched 2 full movies today. Go ahead and get my mother of the year certificate ready. :-) But really, since it was a jar activity, I don't feel bad about it at all. Blame the jar!

Ice Cream Day

Today MiMi took the boys and me to the Blue Bell ice cream factory. They looked so cute in their ice cream hats and had fun looking at the machines making and packaging ice cream.

 

But of course, the best part was eating the ice cream at the end of the tour. The boys both got Crazy Cookie Dough ice cream. I had buttered pecan and MiMi tried their Italian cream cake. It was all yummy!

 

After our fun there, we went across the road to the Brenham Aquatic Center to swim. The whole pool was 3 feet deep or less and it was ice cream themed. The boys splashed and swam and played basketball in the water.

 

They had a little ice cream sundae slide that Timothy went down more than 10 times.

 

Thomas was over 48" so he got to go down the big swirly slide about 5 times. He also got to walk American Ninja Warrior style over some floating popsicle islands while holding onto a rope.

 

We all had so much fun and will be going back soon!

CHEESE

Who has two thumbs and loves CHEESE so much that he dips his cheese quesadillas into a filled cheese puff?

This guy!

Big boy room

Since we cleaned out toys and books and all that, poor Timothy's room was looking sad. So I took all the pictures/shelves off his walls, took down the curtains, and turned it into a prison cell. For now.
We're going to take the cute puppy dog border off the wall, add a stripe instead, and change out the accessories to make it into a big boy room.
His room will be white, brown, and navy with orange accents. He will have big boy sports accessories instead of cute puppy dogs. He picked out some awesome things at Hobby Lobby today and I made him a photo board. We're excited to put it all together!

Yard Sale!

We've decided to have a yard sale on Saturday. Why? Because it will be 100° on Saturday and having heat stroke is on my summer bucket list.
Really, we've been cleaning out toys and furniture and other randomness and it needs to go.
Thomas is under the impression that we will be marking everything with the low, low price of $9.99. Maybe he's seen a few too many commercials?
I've told him and Timothy that they can sell lemonade at the garage sale. I hope our customers come prepared to be hussled out of an extra 50¢.

Happy Birthday MawMaw

MawMaw had her 82nd birthday today. We ate at Tia Maria's then had cake at MiMi and Boonpa's house.
When we got to Tia Maria's both boys remembered that we had MawMaw's birthday there last year too.

A do-nothing day

Today we were still recuperating from our late night out at the circus, so we had a do-nothing day. It was nice and relaxing!
Timothy had lots of hiccups today, so he is convinced that he was growing before my very eyes. He might be right about growing because he's been taking longer than usual naps for the past few days. Whether he's grown or not, I had to assure him that yes, he was looking taller about 6 times today.
I bought the movie The Sandlot the other day and we watched it tonight. Thomas really enjoyed it and understood a lot of the baseball in it. He laughed so hard at the part where the boy kissed the lifeguard, and he even said, "oh snap," when he got kicked out of the pool. It was hilarious watching him watch the movie.
Tomorrow we'll be productive. Maybe...

The Circus

Tonight was the circus. We have been looking forward to it for weeks. This year had a dragon theme and that's all Timothy could talk about before (and during) the show. Where is the dragon? Of course, they waited to the very end of the show to bring out the dragon!

Before the show we saw the animals up close, got hand tattoos, got clown noses, watched an elephant paint, danced with clowns, tried on costumes, and sat on a motorcycle. Whew!
Mimi gave them money for souvenirs. Timothy picked a light-up spinning dragon, and Thomas picked a hat with cotton candy in it.

 

Once the show started, Timothy's light-up toys did not get a break. Thomas laughed and cheered and had a great time. His favorite was the motorcycles in the cage. Timothy's was the golden dragon. Brian's was also the golden dragon. Mine was the elephants. But the girls that hung by their hair gave me a lot to think about (what kind of shampoo do they use) and a headache.
What a fun night!

How he looked during the ENTIRE show.

HMNS

We spent the day at HMNS. It was so fun!

 

We started off by looking at all the exhibits-fossils, rocks, mounted animals, etc.-then made our way to the dinosaur bones. Those were a BIG hit!

 

Then we had lunch and went to see the insects and butterflies.

 

Timothy touched a couple and Thomas used the butterfly guide to identify the ones we saw.

 

We stopped by the gift shop for some archaeological kits before riding the robot t-rex.

On our way out, we stopped to do the weather report. :-)

 

 

Such a fun day!

 

Selfies!

Today we saw Happy Feet and had our popcorn and icees for breakfast. We ran to a couple of stores, then came home to relax. We took some selfies this afternoon. Timothy is really in to making funny faces these days!

Help me, please!

Today I heard A LOT about Star Wars characters. I mean, A LOT. More than I would ever care to know about Jango Fett and Boba Fett and C3PO and R2D2 (not to be confused with the evil R2Q2). My ears are bleeding and I have a headache. Mama needs some quiet time!!!

Despicable Me 2

The boys have been so excited to see this movie all summer long! We finally got to go today and it was pretty cute!
Of course, we got into the spirit of the movie by painting minions on our faces before we went. :-)

Lazy Day

Today we had a super-lazy day. No cleaning, no cooking, no shopping, no nothing. It was nice!
We left the house this evening to have dinner at IHop, then came right back to relax and watch a movie.

Friday Fun

Today the boys got to stay and play with MiMi while I worked with the people from my new school.
We got to meet the sweet lady that our school is named after and we finally got to tour our building (that is still under major construction).
I'm getting excited to go back in August!

The view from my classroom window.

Day with Dad

The boys stayed home with Brian today, but since he had to work from home, they pretty much got to do whatever they wanted as long as they didn't disturb him. So that means that they watched a movie, watched tons of cartoons, played video games, played more video games, and played with every toy they could drag out on their own. And they loved it. :-)

Mall with Mrs. Angie

Today we met Mrs. Angie for lunch and both boys talked her ears off. They loved having someone new to tell all their crazy stories to.
We had lunch at the California Pizza Kitchen. Timothy had a hard time saying California, but he enjoyed his chicken nuggets nonetheless. Then we walked around the mall before making our way into the well-patrolled play area. The security guy in charge of it can come do my recess duty any time. He took his job very seriously. :) We ended our fun trip with ice cream at TCBY. Yum!

Movie Tuesdays

Today we got to see Dolphin Tale while we ate popcorn and had Coke Icees for breakfast. :-)

Back to the land of the living

We are all over our stomach bug, (crossing fingers and knocking on wood right now) so today we reentered the land of the living. And with a bang, too.
Being stuck inside for two and a half days sucks, so today we went to 1. Target, 2. Hobby Lobby, 3. Dollar Tree, 4. McAllister's, and 5. Kroger. Whew!
Then we came home so Timothy could nap. This afternoon we filled up water balloons and had a fight outside. It was our summer jar activity for today.
So glad to have a busy day after many days of watching movies and doing laundry.

From bad to ugly

The stomach bug hit Timothy at 12:45 am. So from then until 7 am he slept on the couch and I slept on the floor in 30 minute increments. Because he puked every 30 minutes. Yay.
At 5am it hit Brian, so he spent the majority of his day puking. Double yay.
I did tons of laundry-mostly sheets-and tried to keep the sick people happy and away from Thomas and me.
All four of us have taken our turn with this sickness so I am hoping that this is the last of it.

Good news/bad news day

The good news is that Thomas is over his stomach issues. The bad news is that he passed it to me. Bleh.

Monkey see, monkey do

We went to Monkey Joe's for a couple of hours today. The boys jumped and jumped until they were sweating - which is hard, considering that they keep this place at a brisk 40°.

And that would have been a great post all by itself, except that I have to add, for memory's sake, that Thomas got sick and puked on the way home. And for the rest of the afternoon/evening. So, yay. 

No more blue icees while jumping around. In fact, no more Monkey Joe's. We've had sprained toes and now puking from there, so it's on my list of places to avoid. :-(

 

Feeling yuck.

Happy 4th!

Today we decorated the tractor and the boys drove it in the neighborhood parade. They were fast in that thing and ended up passing up most of the other riders.
We paraded to the pool where we swam and ate lunch. Timothy even went down the slide today since Brian was there to catch him. (I can't reach in that part of the pool, so he can't go down the slide when it's just me and the boys.)
This evening we grilled burgers with MiMi and Boonpa. Then we drove to see a fireworks show, but it was pouring down rain, so we just came back home. We ended up sitting in the cul-de-sac and shooting our own fireworks with the neighbors.
The boys had such a good time and Thomas was super excited to "blow some stuff up," as he put it.

Wet sponges

Today we picked a paper from the jar-o-fun. It was have a wet sponge fight. We filled up our pool, soaked the sponges, and had a great time throwing them at each other.
I don't have any pictures of the actual fight because I was in it and it was very wet. Too wet for the camera. But I promise it was fun!

Strange

Doesn't everyone have a pot smoking Jamaican penguin hanging on their coat closet door?
What?
It's just me?
Huh!?!

Battle

In the daily battle of Angels vs Skylanders, the Angels almost never win. They are just severely outnumbered by Skylanders. Today the Angels actually won because only a few Skylanders came to the battle.