The latest

Quiet moments around here are hard to come by.  One minute there boys are playing nicely and the next minute someone is crying. Sometimes it's me. ha! (Those naughty boys!) Pretty typical of two small boys. I captured a fun moment here of them riding around in their toy box. Erik's Uncle Joe made this for him when he was a child and now we have it. It's SO cool! They emptied it out and we raced up and down the hallway.

There has been a lot of street work/construction near our house lately. Free entertainment. I'm not kidding. we've watched street sweepers, steam rollers, digger, backhoe loaders, dump trucks, pavement trucks, etc. all from our front window (they are taking weeks, it's been about 5, to replace all the perfect street corners to have those yellow bumpy things ...... yet we're closing schools...don't get me started. There must be good reason for it, right?) Anyway...the boys love construction. And it's something different, right? So I shouldn't complain.

Grandma Gail gave the boys a butterfly Garden for Easter. It's SO neat! We ordered our caterpillars and they boys have been watching them closely every day. They say good-night to them every night too. We're anxious to see them change into butterflies. Getting closer!

It seems we've had quite a bit of rain this year. I love it. This day it was hailing for a while. So, yes, I let them outside in their pajamas to collect some ice.
(click on the picture to enlarge it, you can see the hail falling)

I got this idea from a friend of mine (she has three boys). Finger painting with shaving cream. Boys are in heaven, they are occupied and are not fighting. Yay! For like 20 minutes! Complete disaster but worth it every once in a while. Our house smelled like "man" for several days afterwards. I mean, "clean man". But, eh, still worth it.

Be sure to keep scrolling down to find the other two posts I did today. One on our local fair and another on DISNEYLAND!