It all started when.....
we brought home a box spring from Sam's Club. Unfortunately, Bryan and I are not the quickest at rigging things up, and it took us AT LEAST a half hour to strap that thing securely to the roof. (The problem was the ratcheting straps that I bought with bad directions. Okay, Okay, I must admit the directions probably weren't all that bad, but we were confusing each other with our differing interpretations.) So, we figured that was too much work for just a drive home. Jonah had no choice but to make it worth our while and spend the night on top of the van. He sure wasn't complaining. He had a great night's sleep, fish flies and all!
Noah, LOVING the clean playroom. (Not sure how much credit he can take!)
The boys are impatiently awaiting the arrival of my Aunt Pat and GG (their Great-Grandma). Who can complain when they are reading Curious George together? Hmm, I wonder if George is their role model for trouble? Maybe we need to pick a different character to love...
YEA! They made it! Here is Jonah, GG, Aunt Pat and Noah. The boys are nice and clean after much fun in the sandbox and their new swimming puddle. (I cannot accurately call it a pool, as they can hardly fit side by side in it.) They loved showing off their new house and all their stuff. It is rare that they get visitors on their turf. And their behavior showed that- they were as wild as ever!
This is Noah driving his "boat." It is a magical boat that turns into a speed boat at the push of a daddy or big brother! (He even got poor GG and Aunt Pat to push him a couple of times! I however, am a bit less of a push-over, and I refuse to bend over and push a 30 pound laundry basket through my house 7 months pregnant! Maybe after Selah gets here and I lose enough weight to move around without feeling like I'm going to die!)
A rare moment of love between the boys. They have yakked GG's ear off about this jeep, so we had to get a picture of her with it. They were hoping to give her a ride, but her feet wouldn't fit! She is about as tall and heavy as Jonah, so the boys kind of thought she could take a quick spin around the block. You win some, you lose some. (I have to say, if Jonah was the chauffeur, I would be glad to have an out if I were her. Talk about a lead foot and turning on a dime. The jeep doesn't turn on a dime, mind you, just the riders! He thinks that since his dad has learned how to drive a dignitary around and manage to avoid bullets-I forget the name of that stuff, I have placenta brain- he can do it, too!)
The boys LOVING their new toys. It is amazing how the simple toys seem to be the best so often! They played with the pumps and the balloons ALL day long! If you let the balloon go it flies around and makes an incredible amount of noise, especially in the hallway. So now Jonah tries to always let it go in the hallway, of course. Poor Selah, she is never going to get any peace around here! When they were outside with them, Jonah got a couple stuck places like trees and the roof. That, of course, is WAY cool! (Or whatever is cool to say these days! They play songs from my childhood on the oldies station, so i am really starting to feel out of touch!)
For lunch on Saturday we went to Pei Wei- our favorite restaurant ever! (It is the "fast food" version of PF Chang's! Just as good, but slightly less expensive- and even the kids love it!) Jonah ate an entire adult serving-which I could not even finish- and Noah was determined to eat his spring roll with chop sticks. The mug? His new "Brutus cup" of course. It is the kind that you put in the freezer- so cool (or something like that) for the boys- AND it is BUCKEYES! Not sure it could get any better. Noah drank 3 entire glasses of water out of it (it holds 8 oz) and Jonah drank 4 from his-in one day! If I had only known....
"Well, I decided that chop sticks are for the Asian people. Spoons are much more my style- I can get more in my mouth at a time!"
I am all about the spoon too when it comes to honey chicken!"(Does anyone else think he looks like Uncle Mike? Not because his mouth is full, just in general!)
Daddy spent a bazillion hours remaking our train table with some added cool features! I wonder how quickly we can destroy this and convince him to give up on all the kind things he does just for us?
All tucked in for a LONG night's sleep! (Or so our Mommy thinks! Aunt Pat promised us Reddi Whip and doughnuts as a midnight snack! THAT"S why we are smiling!)
What a weekend! (This is Noah 5 minutes after Aunt Pat and GG left!)
We had a great visit, and best of all... I have a semi clean house! Monday is not so dreaded this week, I can see the floor in EVERY room...even Selah's! (No the boxes have not been unpacked, just more artfully arranged behind doors- and you may hear me talking about those same boxes next year when we move again- but still!) You may have noticed that there was no mention of fireworks, that is because we didn't go this weekend. They had them last week for the fish fly festival, so we just pretended that fireworks had nothing to do with the fourth of July. The boys were none the wiser! More to come on the attack of the killer fish flies later....
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