Happy Birthday!!

Happy Birthday Keith!!

Keith has to work today, on his birthday so we had planned to do his birthday with the kids Sunday night, BUT we had bought him an ice cream cake Saturday afternoon and Thomas was SO excited to show Keith his cake when he got home from work Saturday he got it out of the freezer by himself and completely destroyed the box in the process so we did his birthday Saturday night!

 Keith got an ice cream cake & german choc cupcakes

 Nathan waiting patiently for Keith to open his presents

 I had bought Keith everything he wanted for his birthday then took the boys to the dollar store and told them they could buy daddy whatever they wanted.  It was really funny to see what they picked for him!  Nathan picked him a 2 liter of pepsi, Thomas picked a sheet of stickers, and David picked him a box of his favorite candy.

 Nathan totally excited about the pepsi & trying to get a drink before it was open

 Tommy showing him the stickers & trying to tell Keith that now they can be "sticker boys" together.  Sticker boys is when you stick stickers all over your arms, legs & face :)

 We had to light the candle several times so that everyone could have enough turns blowing out the candle.

 And of course, what kind of party would it be if there wasn't some wrestling involved!!

He & I celebrated his birthday yesterday. We got a babysitter and got a pedicure, then saw Men in Black 3, and then went to dinner at Texas de Brazil.

Camping & Sports

This last weekend was our Father/Son campout.  Keith was able to take the weekend off to take the boys camping.  I was able to convince Keith to take Nathan camping with him, even though he is still in diapers.  It has always been our "rule" that you get to go to father/sons once you are no longer in diapers.  I really needed the break & am glad Nathan was able to go.  All four boys had a great time!  

Nathan hanging out in his chair

Tommy (mid-air), a friends boy & Nathan bouncing on the air mattress in the tent

Nathan chugging a coke

 Thomas hanging out in the tent

 Nathan riding on the power wheels jeep

 Thomas & Nathan at the bounce house

 There are no pictures of David because he was off with his friends the whole time doing whatever pre-teen boys do & playing football, but he was there too & had a lot of fun!

When they got home we went straight to David's baseball game where he hit a 3 run homerun which made the difference in the win for his team & he played catcher the entire game.  Then we headed to David's final 2 football games of the season.  He played quarterback & got a bunch of high fives from the coach so I guess he did good!  (I am not a very good football mom!! I just don't get it!!)

Papa came over the other day to help fix an outlet & we took advantage of his truck and had him bring home a pool to play in this summer!  The little boys LOVE it & get in every chance they can, yes even fully dressed :)  It has a slide on it and Nathan calls the pool "papa's weeee" cause slides are weeee's to him & papa brought it over. 

graduation

Thomas had his preschool graduation today.  We have been talking about graduation for the last week or so,  Tommy woke up this morning and asked if it was graduation day I said yes, and he told me he didn't want to go to graduation he just wanted to stay home and ride his bike! We had been planning to have a "party" at McDonalds tonight to celebrate his graduation, so when I reminded him about that he willingly was ready for graduation!  

Thomas was in the second row, he is under the yellow arrow.  

There's one in every crowd.... Tommy is again under the yellow arrow, he spent the majority of graduation sitting facing backwards, occasionally he would sway to the song that was being sung or do a few motions, but he preferred to either check out whatever was so interesting behind him or playing with the boy next to him's tassel. 

again, backwards not doing the song!

The video is of him walking up to receive his diploma

Thomas receiving his diploma

Thomas & Nathan after graduation 

Tommy looked at his diploma and got upset because   

1-they got his number wrong!! (2012 he wanted it to be 212...our house number)

and 

2- they spelled his name wrong!! Thomas is spelled T-O-H-M-M-A-S  not T-H-O-M-A-S

(according to Tommy---he spells his name the way it sounds out if you are wondering how the heck he decided to spell his name that way tom-mas)

Good job in preschool Tommy!!  We love you and are excited for kindergarten!