How Do Boys Play With a Kitchen?

Like this!

One uses a hammer...

And the other uses a drill...

Thanks Bloobs for the awesome kitchen. The boys love it! They even fight over who gets to use the kitchen sink.

I'm just waiting for when Roo finally figures out how to cook cupcakes with it ;)

Rename the Blog?

Now that Baxter has moved out, should I rename the blog? What should I call it if I do rename it; I want to continue not using the kids names.

On a side note, Uncle Matt has been taking great care of Baxter. They are enjoying daily walks and Baxter is helping Uncle Matt meet lots of new people. His approach could be better as he is, um, there's no nice way to say it, humping, 2 out of 3 dogs he meets. Uncle Matt asked if Baxter had ever hung out with other dogs and I explained that he talked to the neighbor dogs but was really a house dog so not really. They're working on this problem and Baxter is making good progress.

Sleep has been another issue. Baxter is jumping into bed way too early for Uncle Matt. Uncle Matt has been kicking him out of bed and he's finally starting to listen and sleep in. It's only been a week, so that's pretty good. The best was when Uncle Matt called to let us know that Baxter had fallen out of bed. Yeah, he's special like that sometimes. Glad he's feeling at home enough to let Uncle Matt in on some of his finer qualities!

Anyway, to rename the blog or not to rename the blog.....

Timeout Spot

Bug will sometimes sit in the timeout spot when he thinks he may have done something wrong or when he's being silly. Roo doesn't really like this spot but has fun playing with his brother when he goes in it for fun. They're pretty cute playing together these days!

Dump a Bug

Remember when we posted photos of Roo riding in his dump truck when he was Bug's age and now he enjoys rolling him around and dumping him!

Aloha Baxter!

Because aloha doesn't make it sound as bad. Baxter will be moving out on Sunday. Bug's allergy blood work came back as a Level 3 or High for dog dander. Daddy and I discussed and we could only agree that Baxter should move out and do so sooner than later. Luckily, Uncle Matt was thinking of getting a dog this summer and is able to take Baxter in and give him a loving home. So, Daddy and I haven't really talked about what's going to happen much, I think we're in denial. :*(

Congrats Andrea!

Congrats to Andrea for graduating and pursuing a career in nursing! You'll make an awesome nurse. We're all really proud!

Another Bad Haircut

What more can I say. You'd think that we would have learned by now not to mess with Roo's hair. It was long and the back was really long. We trimmed it and it looked good. But Daddy really wanted to trim the front. I said no. Daddy didn't listen. It was uneven. So I tried to even it and in that one snip, made it go from really bad to much much worse. A day or so later I took Roo to where I get my haircut and she did her best with the front. It's lopsided but she didn't want to go shorter since we like his hair on the longer side. Note to ourselves, stop messing with Roo's hair. He told me today that it looks nice but next time he wants to get it cut at his place, where he gets juice boxes, lollipops and of course candy canes. Next time should be this fall!

Last Saturday

Last Saturday was a lot of fun. After breakfast Roo and I went over to the lake to feed the fish. The fish really liked his big pieces of bread he gave them. When we were ready to leave a duck decided to become his new friend. He had a little bit of bread left and the duck liked it. He kept trying to run up and touch the duck and though I was afraid the duck would attack it just ran away. I love that our neighborhood has a few lakes in it; our friend in Maine would call them ponds.

After hanging out at the lake for a bit we headed over to the farmer's market. It was it's first weekend of the season that it was open. We didn't buy anything since we weren't going home after but I need to remember to bring money the next time we go, and a cooler, so we can get some fresh eggs from the egg co-op. As the season goes on we'll split our time between that farmer's market and the one in the Spotsy commuter lot which is much larger.

After heading to town and getting a gift for our neighbor's sons birthday party the following day, we had lunch and then tried out the new bowling alley. Roo had a good time at the bowling alley but wanted to bowl with ball's based on their color, which was a little challenging with the bumpers up. He was cute and had a good time.

When we got home later that day we decided to have fun playing outside and not do much else. Daddy was a little under the weather so we tried to be nice and let him rest. Bug didn't nap well so I took him to get more seeds and a couple more pots and we had a nice time out.

I really enjoy going out and about with Roo and Bug has been showing even more interest recently in going out with me. I'm looking forward to us all going out and about a lot more this summer. It'll be even better if Bug moves his morning nap to the afternoon and starts taking one nap a day. Ah, the weekends just aren't long enough.

Wow, April Just Flew By!

Looks like I haven't updated since mid-April, and it's hard to believe that it's May already. The second half of April included lots of outdoor work and along the way the adoption of Pillar the caterpillar.

We debated how much outdoor work we were going to do this year because we just re-did our bathroom and the kids bathroom; which look awesome now!

We decided that since we'd put off doing the bottom half of the back yard for so long that this was finally the year that we were going to re-grade it. We got our normal amount of mulch for the bed and around the trees, 10 yards I think and then we ordered 20 yards of dirt. As we were finishing mulching the front yard we realized that there was no way we'd be able to do the grading without a tractor with a scoop on the front. So we rented one of those for a day. And wa la, Daddy finished grading the back in just one day.

The remainder of the day after I got home with the kids, we seeded and then put lots of hay over the seeds.

We discovered that Roo is allergic to hay touching his skin. I had to take him to the doctor on Monday to make sure the rash was from the hay and not his tick bites from the week before. He had a couple of bites that looked worrisome so we got antibiotic for that and prednisone for the rashes on his arms and feet. His rashes are pretty much gone now and the one bite is a lot less red. The area with the bite and the rash was about the size of a baseball on his forearm and was bright red, it looked bad.

That will probably conclude our yard work for the season. I'm planting pots of veggies and herbs because we didn't have the materials to make my garden and decided we don't want to spend any more money on the yard. Roo has been an awesome helper and we planted pumpkins on the side of the house and it turns out that the herbs I planted last year are still growing, so I pruned those a bit and we planted some tomato seeds as well.

Somewhere along the way Roo found Pillar the caterpillar. He made him his friend. He fed him and gave him water and a home. Pillar has since been released back into the wild to be with his family.

Now we just need some rain to get everything to grow!