Happy Birthday David!!

 Happy Birthday David!!!

David turned 11 today!  I can't believe how fast time has flown by! 

this has always been one of my favorite baby pictures of David

 For D's birthday, I had planned to surprise him by waking him up early and taking him to Disneyland, but yesterday at school he was given several birthday & end of year party invitations.  One of them was for today & he talked all day yesterday about how much he was looking forward to going....so I told him my plans for Disney for his birthday and let him decide.  He thought about it for a few hours and decided that he would rather spend the day with his friends than with his mom! (sad day for me!!) So, he spent majority of his day at the pool with his friends.  Then we had his birthday dinner of choice, In-N-Out & opened presents.  He got a 49ers jersey, a Dodgers shirt, some games and sports cards & baseball gear. 

Happy Birthday David!  We love you!!

2 1/2

I can not believe that my baby is 2 1/2 today!  Where did the time go?!  I just love this little boy!  He is SO funny & so much fun to have in our home & family.  This picture of him is a few weeks old, but I love his mischievous little face. 

Nathan loves to help me cook & bake.  As soon as he sees me or hears me in the kitchen he immediately stops what he is doing, runs and pushes a chair from the table to wherever on the counter I am and will start to help me.  He loves to sing and talk.  He loves to ride his bikes and scooter and to be outside.  He tries really hard to play baseball with "my Dabid" and can throw a pretty good.  Thomas is his best friend.  They do pretty much everything together.  Nathan is such a sweet boy he loves to give hugs and "mmmmmm's" (kisses)  He is VERY much into Mickey Mouse and Minnie although he prefers Minnie. He loves food & ice cream.  He is working on potty training right now & is doing pretty good.  Nathan is not a fan of nursery, every week we walk by he stops points at the door and says "no babies mommy."  He is such a good boy and is so eager to please and to help.  We love you SO much Nay-Nay.

scouts

David had his final cub scout pack meeting last night! He earned a bunch of activity pins & his arrow of light!!

D getting his activity pins

 Arrow of light ceremony

 receiving his arrow of light award

 and crossing the bridge from cub scouts to boy scouts!

Great job David!!  We are SO proud of you!

swim time!!

The boys have always been part fish.  They LOVE to swim in the bathtub & usually flood the bathroom from it.  This year we got a pool with a slide for them.  Ok, it isn't the biggest & best pool but they love it!!

**disclaimer** Nathan is potty training right now so he is naked all day anyways & the boys usually decide to go swimming while they are in the middle of riding bikes or playing outback so they strip down & swim naked :) and yes, Nathan has his shoes on while swimming

 These two are so funny!!  They are best friends and usually play so nice & have so much fun together!  Nathan is going to miss Tommy so much when he starts kindergarten next year.
We also have a water table outback that they love to play with.  In the winter we fill it with moon sand (so much cleaner than having that in my house!!) and in the summer with water.  Nathan decided that this year it makes a good little personal pool for him!!

David saw me posting this & wanted to make sure that everyone is clear that he does not go in the little pool with the babies nor does he run around naked outside like they do!!

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!